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Plot Summary:
2006. A mysterious mining accident in a remote territory unleashes an unspeakable horror that creates a zombie horde with an appetite for human flesh. It decimates large portions of the country. The only course of action is to rapidly enclose the infected areas and seal them off from the rest of the remaining, living population. NOW. 15 years later the tattered remains of the government and the mining corporation responsible where the initial event took place commit themselves to finding out what may have happened at the mining complex. The solution is to send in a group of mercenaries and scientists into the quarantined zone to find answers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, War
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspense
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Dead Clowns (2004)
Plot Summary:
The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, but they can't hide from the truth -- or the undead.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, slasher, independent film, ridiculous
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order to save the human race.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, scary, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Grey Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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The Stink of Flesh (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nathan and Dexy struggle to maintain an open marriage after a zombie plague has killed the majority of the population. It's up to Nathan to find survivors to pleasure his wife and hot zombies to satisfy his own lust.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cult horror, scary, serious, futuristic, psychotronic
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Zombie Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
A car roars through the darkened country roads. Inside, a distraught Sarah, holding her stricken dad, Mark, is desperately trying to stem the flow of blood. Having been re-directed to an Evacuation facility on the edge of town, Steve, an off-duty Paramedic is in a race against time fully aware that Mark's chances of survival are rapidly slipping away. The scene that greets them on arrival is one of chaos. The floor, awash with blood, is covered with the bodies of the dying and injured, doctors dart back and forth, clearly overwhelmed. A violent convulsion causes Mark to lose consciousness, heart stopped he slumps to the floor. As the adrenalin needle slams into her Fathers heart Sarah stumbles back and her world fades to black. Upon regaining consciousness Sarah is greeted by the uneasy silence of a seemingly deserted building. Bleeding and dazed she stumbles through the darkened corridors unaware of the fate that awaits her.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough
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Before Dawn (2013)
Plot Summary:
An estranged couple's vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they find themselves under attack from the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, apocalyptic, scary, independent film, interesting
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Army of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
The filming of a hit reality TV show goes horribly wrong when a group of small town cops respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, domestic disturbance.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, detective
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Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, bleak
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Mimesis (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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Exit Humanity (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, serious, tense, scary, dark, apocalyptic, independent film, wild
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13 Eerie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts who systematically hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
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Swamp Zombies!!! (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, remake of american film
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The Dead 2: India (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Plot Summary:
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, tense, serious, independent film, fast
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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, suspense, hilarious, independent film
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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Zombie Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
There is a new evil, and you have no idea what's coming... When college roommates Mark and Tom go out for a night at the bar, the last thing they expected to find was a machete wielding stranger and a horde of the undead. With the help of amateur photographer and video store clerk Raven, the unlikely party fights their way into an epic conflict between the living... and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
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Zombex (2013)
Plot Summary:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Descendents (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. Camille, a nine year old girl wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombies and the armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone who might be infected. However, the little girl will find other kids like her that share a recurring dream of: they all have visions of the ocean as their destiny. Together they will try to survive the journey to the ocean in search of an escape from the military who seem to be as determined on their destruction as on the zombies. Written by David Pollison/Solos Website.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, natural horror, exciting, offbeat, lovecraft
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Edges of Darkness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three interconnected tales of terror set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic, anthology, exciting, splatter
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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Zombie Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies. The plan is to bring an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear plant to pretend a terrible accident occurred. No one has to know the truth. A team of mercenaries is hired to complete the mission. The battle is on. Hordes of monsters against the team. Who will survive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, rough, independent film
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Autumn (2009)
Plot Summary:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, interactive
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Dead Shadows (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, lovecraft