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Plot Summary:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, surreal, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher
Best tv shows and movies like Head of the Family (1996):
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The Killer Eye (1999)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist's experiment goes awry, turning a homeless man's eyeball into a giant killing machine that has an insatiable appetite for young women.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic, sex comedy, spoof, parody, gay cinema
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Bite Me! (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a new strain of marijuana is delivered to a remote strip club, an army of insect creatures hungry for human blood starts feeding on the staff and patrons. Soon the bugs cause provocative havoc as their bite elicits a particularly potent narcotic reaction in those bitten.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, campy
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Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 a group of young, horny, out of control Christians are spending a fun filled weekend at the mountain lakeside Happy Day Bible Camp. One by one these youthful sinners pay a BLOODY penance for their misdeeds. Flash forward 7 years, when another youth group of Bible toters return, lead by "Father Richard Cummings" (Reggie Bannister), "Sister Mary Chopper," (Tim Sullivan) goes bloody murder after the camp - emphasis on CAMP - with stand out performances by folks like Gigi Bannister, Jessica Sonneborn, Troy Guthrie, Deborah Venegas, Jay Fields, and Jeff Dylan Graham. In the end, Bannister and Troup must face down the a transvestite serial killing nun in a fight to the death, and call upon the higher graces of the infamous Ron Jeremy as "Jesus" guide them through! A hilarious campy equal opportunity offensive film that will have you DIE laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, spoof, scary, realistic
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Corpses (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense, humorous, independent film
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Shrunken Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
Three teens killed by a local crime boss return for revenge after a witch doctor revives them through voodoo magic.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, weird, campy, cult film
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Evil Bong (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of stoners inhale more than they bargained for when they smoke from an evil bong in this campy comedy. The guys buy a vintage bong named EeBee from an ad in High Times magazine, but they have no idea the possessed pipe will gradually suck them into a horrifying surreal world. As they fight for their lives, EeBee's former owner (none other than Tommy Chong) -- the only one who understands the power of the bong -- tries to rescue them.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, slasher, suspense, cult classic, cult horror, terrifying
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Deformed Monsters (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster to life... but there's a problem and they end up three feet tall.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, meta
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Zombies Vs. Strippers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Tough Titty is about to go under after losing a lot of money and gaining no customers. After they bring together their staff for the night to declare bankruptcy and lay offs, little do they know that around them the city is being sieged by the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, not serious, sexy, scary, horror comedy, offbeat, independent film, psychotronic
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Pervert! (2005)
Plot Summary:
While visiting his Bible-thumping yet lecherous father in the desert, randy college student James (Sean Andrews) tries everything he can to hook up with the local curvaceous cuties, but his sex quest stalls when a bloodthirsty killer targets every buxom beauty in sight. Porn star and onetime California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey stars in this lusty nod to 1960s exploitation films.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, slasher, semi serious, sexy, rough, suspense, grindhouse, mockbuster, horror comedy
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Big Monster on Campus (2000)
Plot Summary:
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, horror comedy, spooky, independent film, offbeat, gothic, humorous
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Retardead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As the ravenous monsters overrun the town, Hannigan tries to convince Stern's faithful assistant to reveal how to foil the crazed doctor's evil scheme.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, horror comedy, creepy, ridiculous
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Monsturd (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
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The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Plot Summary:
An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, dark comedy, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Blood Dolls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexy, demonic, independent film, offbeat, black comedy
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Skinned Deep (2004)
Plot Summary:
The horror film Skinned Deep begins when a family suffers a flat tire on a barren stretch of road with only a diner dotting the landscape. They meet Granny, the seemingly nice old woman who runs the establishment, but they soon find that she is the leader of a deranged clan. The family is slain, with the exception of their teenage daughter, Tina whom one of the sons in the family, Brain (a boy with an externalized brain much larger than his head), takes a romantic interest in. Soon a group of bikers show up, forcing the girl to figure out which group of crazies she should throw in with in order to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, serious, independent film, weird, campy
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, black and white, grindhouse, dark comedy, horror comedy, scary, disturbing, creepy, psychological, suspense
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Parts of the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, scary, slasher, campy
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" the pair soon find themselves having to confront their murderous past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, horror comedy
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Plot Summary:
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, horror comedy
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The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, humorous, epic, cult film
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Hide and Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspense, independent film, biting, campy
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Redneck Zombies (1989)
Plot Summary:
A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, cult horror, sexy, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher
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Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
Plot Summary:
When three college guys get caught spying on a sorority ritual, they're forced to accompany the pledges on their next assignment: stealing a trophy from a bowling alley. But the token they pinch has a devilish imp who makes their lives a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, psychotronic, psychological, funny, retro, absurd, sex comedy, grindhouse, mockbuster
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Spookies (1986)
Plot Summary:
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, anthology, psychological, funny, retro
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Basket Case 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their new found home (presided over by Granny Roth), things however take a downward turn on a trip to the Georgia Clinic of Uncle Hal, which leads to an encounter with an especially nasty redneck sheriff and his similarly blinkered band of merry men.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, brutal, dark, mystic, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, spooky, independent film
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976-EVIL (1988)
Plot Summary:
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, satanic, suspenseful, cult classic, splatter, homoerotic, horror comedy, cult horror
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Street Trash (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, cult horror, psychotronic, funny, bloody, slasher
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, horror comedy, scary, humorous, slasher, splatter, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, apocalyptic
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Re-Animator (1985)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: splatter, cult classic, black comedy, scary, lovecraft, dark comedy, slasher, independent film, bloody, grindhouse
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Basket Case (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, psychotronic, cult classic, suspenseful, splatter, horror comedy, cult horror, disturbing