Best "psychotronic film" Movies of All Time

48 movies found (page 1/2):

Death Note: The Last Name(2006)

PG-13

3.5/5 (with 198 votes)

In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko - With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hikari Mitsushima, Erika Toda, Kenichi Matsuyama, Nana Katase, Shunji Fujimura, ...

Day of the Mummy(2014)

| 1h 16min | Adventure, Horror, Action

2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises from the dead with a blood-lust that cannot be quenched and a raging fury that will shred flesh from bone, bringing terrible and tormented death to all who dare witness the Day of the Mummy.

Dick Tracy's Dilemma(1947)

1h | Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Directed by John Rawlins - With Ralph Byrd

Return to Horror Hotel(2019)

1h 23min | Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 64 votes)

Return to Horror Hotel is an anthology feature with 4 segments. One is about giant a bedbugs, one is about a magical charm that turns girls beautiful, one is about a WWII sailor who hasn't aged and one is about a terrorizing severed hand.

Full Circle(1978)

| 1h 38min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Directed by Richard Loncraine - With Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Cathleen Nesbitt, Edward Hardwicke, Jill Bennett, ...

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Who Saw Her Die?(1972)

1h 30min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror

3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

Giallo thriller about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice. The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation. Soon finding they are in way over their heads, the killer now begins to target those who have discovered too much.

Directed by Aldo Lado - With George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero, Peter Chatel, Piero Vida, ...

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Dick Tracy(1945)

1h 1min | Mystery, Action, Crime

2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).

Directed by William Berke, Clem Beauchamp - With Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Trevor Bardette, Morgan Wallace, ...

Francis(1950)

| 1h 31min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, War

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, ZaSu Pitts, Ray Collins, John McIntire, Frank Faylen, ...

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Assault! Jack the Ripper(1976)

1h 11min | Horror, Drama, Crime

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Two restaurant employees begin a sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe - With Runa Takamura, Rei Okamoto

The Awful Dr. Orlof(1962)

1h 30min | Horror

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadistic practices.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Howard Vernon, Diana Lorys, Marisa Paredes, Jesús Franco, Perla Cristal, Conrado San Martín, ...

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome(1947)

1h 5min | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

Directed by John Rawlins - With Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd

Francis Goes to the Races(1951)

| 1h 28min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Vaughn Taylor, Larry Keating, ...

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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire(1971)

1h 32min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror

2.5/5 (with 13 votes)

In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...

Directed by Riccardo Freda - With Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Werner Pochath, Dominique Boschero, Renato Romano, Valentina Cortese, ...

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball(1946)

| 1h 2min | Action, Crime, Mystery

2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With Morgan Conway, Dick Wessel, Esther Howard

Francis Goes to West Point(1952)

| 1h 21min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, William H. Reynolds, Les Tremayne, David Janssen, James Best, ...

The Day of the Trumpet(1958)

1h 17min

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Working with the people to build roads, schools, and bridges, they prove that the most important thing an army can have is "good will and integrity.".

Directed by Eddie Romero - With John Agar

The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story(2016)

1h 9min | Science Fiction, Horror

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The sequel to Jennifer Blanc's cult hit 2013 film "The Night Visitor". Directed by that film's star Brianne Davis, The Night Visitor 2:HEATHER'S STORY runs parallel to the original Night Visitor, telling the story of Heather, a special young girl, who must protect her family and the planet from the same other-earthly being. The sequel delves deeper into the mysteries that plagued the Stevens family and their son Ricky with the help of psychic and medium Daniel.

The Laplace's Demon(2017)

1h 45min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

A glass in free fall. Have you ever thought if it is possible to calculate into how many pieces it can break into? After numerous experiments, a team of researchers succeeds in doing just this apparently impossible task. Attracted to their experiment, a mysterious professor invites the scientists in his isolated mansion to know more about their studies. However, when they arrive, they are not greeted by their host but they are faced with a strange model of the mansion, in which some absolutely normal but incredible actions are acted. The researchers will soon understand to be involved in a new experiment in which they'll have to play a very different role than usual: that of the glass in free fall.

The Wild World of Batwoman(1966)

1h 10min | Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Science Fiction

1.1/5 (with 16 votes)

The pointlessly-named Batwoman and her bevy of Batmaidens fight evil and dance.

Directed by Jerry Warren - With Katherine Victor, George Beranger, Steve Brodie

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Fear No Evil(1969)

2h | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With Louis Jourdan

Francis in the Navy(1955)

| 1h 20min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Clint Eastwood, David Janssen, Myrna Hansen, Virginia O'Brien, ...

The Girl in Lovers Lane(1960)

| 1h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love, Crime

1.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.

Directed by Charles R. Rondeau

Francis Joins the WACS(1954)

| 1h 35min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, Mamie Van Doren, Chill Wills, Joan Shawlee, Lynn Bari, ...

When the Girls Take Over(1962)

1h 20min | Comedy

1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A comic look...at Cuba after Castro regime take over.

Directed by Russell Hayden - With Marvin Miller, Jackie Coogan, Robert Lowery

Blue Denim(1959)

1h 29min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

Directed by Philip Dunne - With Carol Lynley, Brandon deWilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Vaughn Taylor, William Schallert, ...

The Eve of St. Mark(1944)

| 1h 36min | War, Drama

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans.

Directed by John M. Stahl, Maxwell Anderson - With Anne Baxter, Vincent Price, Ray Collins, Harry Morgan, Jack Archer, Blake Edwards, ...

The Girl In The Kremlin(1957)

| 1h 21min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.

Directed by Russell Birdwell - With Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Maurice Manson, Natalie Darryl

The Billion Dollar Threat(1979)

1h 40min | Action, Adventure, TV Movie

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.

Battle of Blood Island(1960)

| 1h 4min | Drama, War

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.

Directed by Joel Rapp - With Roger Corman