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Plot Summary:
A weekend camping trip turns into a frantic fight against the supernatural when an ancient demon and a fearsome female warrior bring their eternal battle into the present day. Jason Parks is trying to win back his ex-fiancee, Jasmine, by arranging a camping trip with the lost love in question, his best friend, Ricky, and their witchcraft-obsessed friend, Renee. Little does Jack realize that Jasmine has switched teams--these days she's more interested in seducing Renee than marrying the man she once loved. But lately Renee's been having horrible dreams about Summer Vale, a little girl who vanished without a trace 20 years ago. When Renee attempts to contact Summer's spirit, she inadvertently opens an interdimensional portal and unleashes a vicious demon. Fortunately for the frightened campers, a grown-up, sword-wielding Summer manages to get through the portal as well, and sets out to slay the malevolent hell-spawn.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, weird, campy
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Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two years after Jason Parks (Landy Cannon) saved Warrior Princess Summer Vale (Brigitte Kingsley) from her life hunting Killopoths in the demon dimension, a sudden surge of supernatural activity and violent attacks have resurfaced on our plane beyond the normal parameters of the portal. The Rising Dark Agency, a black ops division of the government headed by Colonel Haggerd (Michael Ironside), suspects that the mystic strikes suggests the work of Mardock, an evil Demon-god capable of destroying worlds. When a new demon sub-species disrupts Summer's wedding and eats her fiancée, the war on the new Demon Lord begins. With her group of misfits and their BFG's - Summer sets out to destroy Mardock, but no one is prepared for who they find behind the Dark Lord's ascension.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic, cliffhanger
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Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy! (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of everyday heroes encounter the fight of their lives in the deep mines of Northern Ontario where they unwittingly awaken an ancient giant octopus.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, horror spoof
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The Landlord (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Landlord is the story of Tyler, the unfortunate young proprietor of a demon-haunted apartment building. While finding tenants has never been a problem for Tyler, keeping them alive long enough to pay rent is. No matter how nicely Tyler asks, he cannot keep the demons from eating the renters (or persuade them to wait a month or two, even). They never listen. And why should they? They have an all-you-can-eat buffet of delicious human flesh and Tyler as their pet monkey. But all that might change when Tyler takes a liking to the newest tenant, a desperate young woman running from demons of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, scary, offbeat
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Meat Market (2000)
Plot Summary:
Animals attacks, says the TV news. But two ex-security agents know the real cause - maybe the real culprits. Shahrokh and Argenta are former employees of a company they knew to be conducting bizarre medical experiments. What has resulted are not animals attacks, but attacks by humans turned into vicious, decomposing, cannibalistic zombies. Their efforts to stem the violence in vain, hunted by the authorities, Shahrokh and Argenta escape the city just as it is engulfed in chaos. Their only hope lies in finding and organizing the few remaining survivors. What they find - three women claiming to be vampires with high-tech weaponry, a deranged and washed-up Mexican wrestler, a wounded soldier, and a scientist who may know more than he lets on - offer more questions than answers. Can this tiny cadre hope to defeat an army of the undead? And if they succeed...will there be anyone left alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Horror, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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Playhouse (2003)
Plot Summary:
After years hiding in the shadows, the ancient ghosts of an old Pittsburgh theater make their presence known once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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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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Splatter Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
Splatter Beach is a 2007 low-budget horror comedy film made by the prolific Polonia brothers. It was released on DVD by Camp Motion Pictures.Starring Erin Brown, Erika Smith, Alison Whitney, Brice Kennedy, Ken Van Sant and Dave Fife, Splatter Beach concerns a reporter who hopes to write a story on a series of disappearances that have plagued a local beach, and who finds instead a sea monster in full rubbery attire.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, parody, suspense, splatter, spoof, scary, offbeat
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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Plot Summary:
As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, Jack's Professor undergoes a transformation into something not-quite- human, and Jack is forced to confront some old demons... along with a few new ones.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, horror comedy, humorous, slasher, suspenseful, funny, suspense, perverse, cult classic, offbeat
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House of the Damned (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses witchcraft to try to steal her daughter's youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, scary, mind bending, humorous, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spoof, dark comedy
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The Slaughter (2006)
Plot Summary:
A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder leaves the house abandoned for yet another forty years. Now, six fun loving college students are hired to clean up the house for a greedy real estate mogul who plans to sell it for a large profit. They unwittingly awake the demon and only the ultimate sacrifice can save the world from a future of unspeakable evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, campy
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Choking Hazard (2004)
Plot Summary:
When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal battle. Alternately sickening and silly, this gruesomely hilarious Czech horror flick co-stars Jan Dolansky, Eva Nadazdyova, Anna Fialkova and Eva Janouskova.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, serious, slasher
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Cadaverella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cinder knew her life was over when her father came home from a business trip with a new wife and her 2 daughters when she was only 6. When her father dies soon afterwards, she pretty much has to care for herself, as her stepmother whittles away her father's money and possessions. Cinder bides her time by hanging with her best friend Justin, working at the library with the unbearable Lenore, and crushing on Cash, the psycho who tends the lawn, until her 21st birthday, when she inherits the trust fund her father left for her. When she makes off with Justin's clay doll of the voodoo god Baron Samedi, the god visits her to help "make things happen" for her--including landing a night with Cash. Little did she know, however, that Cash was in cahoots with her step-mom to do away with her so they could get her trust fund money. Little did Cash and Step-mom know, that Baron Samedi was going to help Cinder get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
The plot thickens as heroes Pak and Ha discover the evil Dr. Magma's plan to reanimate the dead and take on the master-fighting Shaolin monks.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, fast
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Zombie Beach Party (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ulysses, a professional wrestler, is going to watch another fight in which a wrestler is up against a horde of zombies. One of the zombies kills a waitress and Ulysses and his friends decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the origins of the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, suspense, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher
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Soulkeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious
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Stupid Teenagers Must Die! (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the 1980's and a group of typical horror movie high school kids are getting together to hold a séance in a haunted house. Naturally, people start dying preposterously bloody deaths, girls are getting naked for no apparent reason and people walk into pitch black rooms and say things like "Is someone in here?" Will any of these poor, hapless kids survive? Or will their bodies fill the house with blood and...well, you know!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, slasher, scary, humorous, not serious, brutal, mockbuster, spoof, offbeat, independent film
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Andre the Butcher (2005)
Plot Summary:
Andre the Butcher will make sure you pay for your sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, suspense, horror comedy, campy
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Bong of the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, splatter
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Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire (2004)
Plot Summary:
It's a face-off against two of the most evil supernatural forces: vampires fueled by bloodlust and zombies who've come back from the dead to prey on the living. The two camps are bent on proving their superiority, so it's a race to the gory finish. Whoever wins will decide the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, exciting, feel good, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, dark drama
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The Hazing (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, bloody, horror comedy, independent film, slasher, serious, splatter
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Late Fee (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, humorous, satanic
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Evil - In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on the end of the First "Kako" movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and shoot random moving targets (zombie or not). In the meantime we take small flashbacks into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has happened as well and we learned about how they faced them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, hilarious, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful
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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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Blood Moon Rising (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Devil's daughter rises from the grave bringing with her zombies, werewolves, vampires and the armies of Hell to destroy Earth. Mankind's only salvation is a young hippie girl and a comic book geek Darrel.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, suspense, not serious, spoof, low-budget, 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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Kill Zombie! (2012)
Plot Summary:
The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, tense, scary, offbeat, not serious, campy
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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it's up to the janitor to take it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, offbeat, splatter, bizarre
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The Granny (1995)
Plot Summary:
Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, slasher
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Plot Summary:
Six actors go to graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, horror comedy, disturbing, black and white, mockbuster, cult classic, cult horror
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Ghoulies II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: splatter, cult classic, scary, humorous, horror comedy, classic horror, independent film, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious