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Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Revenge of the Red Baron (1994)
Plot Summary:
Once he fought in the name of honor, now he will fight in the name of family. His glory days behind him, Grandpa Spencer appears doomed to sit in his wheelchair and watch his family come apart. But fate is not content to let this World War I Fighter Ace fade away. An ancient curse on the Spencer family threatens their very lives. The infamous Red Baron has returned to take revenge on the man who shot him down. Grandfather, grandson and daughter-in law must unite to fight the infamous Red Baron; because this time it's their last chance.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Hex After Hex (1982)
Plot Summary:
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: weird
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Banana Spirit (1992)
Plot Summary:
Francis Ng stars as Chic, who helps his friend Che, a Taoist ghostbuster, with various assignments. They both owe gambling debts to the nasty mobster Rabid Hsiung, so they're in desperate need of money, leading them to take on a request from the elderly Taoist master Tang to help him capture the Banana Spirit. On a late-night search, the trio is frightened by a demon as well as awakening the Banana Spirit, Muyung Yu-Yu, who takes the earthly form of a beautiful model and seduces Chic. Chic and the ghost become lovers, and she saves his life when he is shot at by mobsters as well as helping him win a great deal of money at one of Rabid Hsiung's casinos. Hsiung figures out that Yu-Yu has special powers, which he attempts to use for his own benefit, but Chic kills him before he can realize his plans. Unfortunately, Hsiung rises from the grave as a clownish evil spirit looking for revenge, and Yu-Yu's allotted time on Earth is quickly running out.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
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The Buddhist Spell (1993)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy period piece. Some magic tree spirit lady and a young monk fight some bat-head guy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: asian horror
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Sex Beyond the Grave (1984)
Plot Summary:
In order to pay off a massive debt, a gambling addict sells his ancestral home to a young couple, who soon discover that the building is haunted by the vengeful spirits of a murdered family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Devil's Woman (1996)
Plot Summary:
A brutal story of revenge revolving around a doctor and a mystic, Lung, whose wife was killed by him. Lung travels to South-East Asia, learns how to cast spells, and devotes his life to taking revenge on the doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Troublesome Night 4 (1998)
Plot Summary:
The fourth installment in the "Troublesome Night" series. As in the previous films, the film winds together an anthology of comedic horror tales all loosely linked together. In this one, all the stories involve tourists from Hong Kong visiting the Philippines on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Spirit of the Raped (1976)
Plot Summary:
shaw production.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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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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Hurra, die Schwedinnen sind da (1978)
Plot Summary:
Nikki Moser, a blond womanizer, made a deal with the burgomaster. He gave him money to buy a hotel, and for this Nikki should marry his daughter Marianne. And the catch is not even that the daughter of the Bavarian city head is a mulatto, but the fact that Nicky does not want to be bound by marriage to anyone. Buddy Tony throws the poor guy the idea of taking a loan, giving money to the burgomaster and sending him away with his daughter. However, to say is not to do. To knock out a loan is a complicated matter.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Jail House Eros (1989)
Plot Summary:
In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Refrigerator (1991)
Plot Summary:
A couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a refrigerator, which is the only thing they like in the place. However, they slowly discover that the refrigerator is a monster which kills people in gruesome ways and then sends them to hell. The refrigerator is already gaining mind control over the husband. What will happen?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Don't Open Your Eyes (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Tao of ghostbusting; religion and policing. On January 2, 2006, three fateful things happen to Sergeant Yiu, a lackluster Hong Kong cop: he shoots a notorious criminal who vows to haunt him, his aunt dies and passes to him the ability to see ghosts, and he's given a desk job at the 7th precinct. There he's supervised by the hard-nosed Madame Tsui, he meets Bing, the force's expert on the supernatural, and he works with Fiona, a lovely colleague with her own secret. Can Yiu (called "Seven") manage his gift, face the ghost, and find the gang that's still at large? Help comes from Taoists, a young medium, and the venerable precinct itself, but the forces of evil are great.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, captivating, scary, serious
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The Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
Plot Summary:
A fun-filled trip to Thailand turns out to be a deadly one for four best friends when they accidentally killed the sister of a local sorcerer. When one of them mysteriously died upon returning the remaining trio discovers that a curse has been cast upon them. They must turn to a Thai magician for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, transgressive
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Hex (1980)
Plot Summary:
Constantly mistreated by her cruel, alcoholic husband Chun-yu (Wang Jung), frail Chan Sau-ying (Tanny Tien Ni) awaits certain death from tuberculosis. New servant girl Yi-wah (Chen Szu-chia) takes pity on her mistress' plight but, after suffering Chun-yu's abuse once too often, the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance. Yi-wah dismisses her claims as the delusions brought about by guilt and her illness but it appears that the house is indeed being haunted by a corpse that will not be easily appeased.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, poliziottesco, weird, cult film
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Filthy McNasty (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bookish women, whom crave adventure and bad taste, suddenly turn into sexy ladies after being zapped with a spell by a sex-starved ghost.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: funny, suspense, spoof, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, horror comedy, parody
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Chinese Erotic Ghost Story (1998)
Plot Summary:
Chu is a lowly debt collector for the local strongman Wang. Problem is that Chu is too nice/honest/dopey to be very good at the grubby collections job. Chu is treated badly by his boss Wang. Eventually Wang catches one of his twin daughters in the act of seducing the hapless bumpkin Chu. Wang naturally blames Chu rather than the daughter. For punishment Wang sends Chu on an impossible quest to Satan's Temple to steal a statue of Judge Lu.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The White Lady (1965)
Plot Summary:
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Poltergay (2006)
Plot Summary:
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, not serious, horror comedy, exciting, offbeat, queer cinema, campy
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To Hell with the Devil (1982)
Plot Summary:
A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs around him to try and convince him that he screwed up and he needs to get his soul back or he'll be damned for eternity. Well, everything goes bad for the shmo and he wants his soul back. But, the devil's lacky doesn't want to give it back. So the priest and the devil's lackey go at it mano y mano.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Ju-on: Black Ghost (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Nurse named Yuko (Ai Kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge spreads to Fukie and everyone around her. Soon Fukie’s father goes mad and commits murder. Fukie’s sister Mariko has special spiritual power, and together with their mother they have some success driving out the evil spirit. But the worst of the grudge is yet to come.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, spooky, asian horror
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Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three vixens have meditated for 1,000 years to able to shed their animal natures and become human. For the final month of their rigors, they have moved near a village where women pray to a god of fertility. One sister visits the god's temple and thinks lustful thoughts. As she leaves, a priest confronts her, warning of dire consequences and of demons that will try to stop the vixens' transformation. Soon, the youngest sister saves a poor scholar from bandits and becomes enamored of him. Each sister visits him, and before long, the youth has made love to all three. After they invite him to stay with them, the playfulness takes a scary turn. Where can they turn for help?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, sexy, sex comedy, hot, cult film
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The Spooky Bunch (1980)
Plot Summary:
A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Fox Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, outstanding student and always wins women's hearts, soon married to tycoon's daughter. To prepare for the upcoming exam, he moves in an abandoned house. During his stay, he meets two sexy, beautiful, and troublesome ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Extra Ordinary (2019)
Plot Summary:
A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Ireland, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, scary, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, funny, suspense, dark, surreal
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Nightmare Sisters (1988)
Plot Summary:
Melody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can't get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in the girls becoming possessed and turning into sex starved vamps. Will the geek hero guys be able to stop the horrible (?) possession?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, horror comedy, slasher, splatter, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Creepshow 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
This follow-up to the George Romero/Stephen King-launched anthology series features five new tales of horror and a wraparound. The main stories deal with alternative realities ("Alice"), possessed communication devices ("The Radio"), vampires and serial killers in lust ("Call Girl"), mad inventors ("The Professor's Wife"), and hauntings from beyond the grave ("Haunted Dog").
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, semi serious, psychological, gothic, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, dark fairy tale
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Mr. Vampire (1985)
Plot Summary:
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, exciting, semi serious, slapstick, horror comedy, slapstick comedy, spooky, weird, corny
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Night of the Demons (1988)
Plot Summary:
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspenseful, grindhouse, sexy, demonic, splatter, creepy, psychological, psychotronic