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Plot Summary:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, retro, slasher, classic horror, spooky, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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Evils of the Night (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, enigmatic, suspense, dark comedy, black and white, queer horror, slasher, independent film, crying
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The Mutations (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Nightbeast (1982)
Plot Summary:
An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, slasher, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Progeny (1998)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, slasher, mystic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Lifeform (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Contamination (1980)
Plot Summary:
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, psychotronic, detective, retro
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, space horror, independent film, psychotronic, sexy, slasher, surreal
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Breeders (1986)
Plot Summary:
An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, detective, surprise ending
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Deep Space (1988)
Plot Summary:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature. Co-starring Julie Newmar as a powerful psychic, this low-rent horror flick finds the police force continually confounded by the organism's evolving physical features.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic, lovecraft, independent film, scary, exciting, slasher
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Horror Planet (1981)
Plot Summary:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, space horror, scary, psychotronic, erotic, retro, mystic, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Shivers (1975)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, sexual, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, cynical
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Species III (2004)
Plot Summary:
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual, scary, suspense, grindhouse, ridiculous
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Critters (1986)
Plot Summary:
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, cult classic, horror comedy, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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Forbidden World (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse, erotic, disturbing, medical horror, cult classic, lovecraft
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Creature (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky, cult film
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Hybrid (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of space renegades hook up with a drifter named McQueen. Together they hole up in an abandoned research facility for the night and are relentlessly pursued by a human/monster hybrid.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, independent film, futuristic, psychotronic
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The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, grindhouse, cult horror, classic horror, psychotronic, bloody, horror comedy, perverse, cult classic
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The Puppet Masters (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic, apocalyptic, anamorphic, action adventure, space horror, serious
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The Blob (1988)
Plot Summary:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic
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Body Snatchers (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, mystical, classic horror, space horror
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The Thing (2011)
Plot Summary:
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, psychotronic, tense, intense, lovecraft
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Event Horizon (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the crew of the "Lewis and Clark" discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, space horror, exciting, lovecraft, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Plot Summary:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, slasher, cult classic, splatter, lovecraft, independent film, absurd
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Plot Summary:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, cult classic, tense, apocalyptic
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The Brood (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, surreal, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse
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Splice (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, twist ending, rough, stylized, scary, splatter, cult classic, erotic
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The Thing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 456000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense, dark, bloody, creepy, lovecraft
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From Beyond (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, lovecraft, demonic, grindhouse, surreal, intense, slasher, bloody
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Alien (1979)
Plot Summary:
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 931000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast, frightening, captivating, creepy, visually stunning, atmospheric