Best movies like The Midnight Hour
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Plot Summary:
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, retro, slasher, dark comedy, black and white, horror comedy, spooky, offbeat, humorous
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Best tv shows and movies like The Midnight Hour (1985):
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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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Hysterical (1982)
Plot Summary:
Frederic Lansing (Bill Hudson) is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia (Julie Newmar), who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead husband, Captain Howdy (Richard Kiel). When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists (Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson) are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, scary, disturbing, spoof, horror comedy, independent film, psychotronic, horror spoof
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Eat Brains Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Jake and his dream girl, Amanda, contract a mysterious zombie virus, they end up on the run from Cass, a teen psychic sent by the government's top-secret Necrotic Control Division to track them down as they search for a cure.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, satirical, absurd, horror comedy
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Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton High School, looking for blood. She chooses as her escort in world of the living Alex, an average depressed student with dreams of one day becoming a doctor. As Mary Lou begins to get back into form, the body count starts climbing and the graduating class of Hamilton High is once again smaller than expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, humorous, splatter, psychotronic, retro, suspense, dark, twist ending, suspenseful
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The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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The Barn (2016)
Plot Summary:
Its Halloween 1989, best friends Sam and Josh are trying to enjoy what's left of their final Devil's Night before graduating high school. But trouble arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it's up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within "The Barn".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, psychotronic, slasher, retro, horror comedy, spooky, humorous, scary, parody
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Night Fangs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have managed to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Performing bloody rituals, they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that will devour their flesh and souls.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, scary, serious, sexual
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Burying the Ex (2014)
Plot Summary:
It seemed like a great idea when all-around nice guy Max and his beautiful girlfriend, Evelyn moved in together. But when Evelyn turns out to be a controlling, manipulative nightmare, Max knows it’s time to call it quits. There’s just one problem: he’s terrified of breaking up with her. Fate steps in when Evelyn is the victim of a fatal, freak accident, leaving Max single and ready to mingle. Just as Max is thinking about moving on with what could be his dream girl, Olivia – Evelyn has returned from the grave and is determined to get her boyfriend back...even if that means transforming him into one of the undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: not serious, horror comedy, scary, humorous, romantic, psychological, funny, dark comedy, disgusting, offbeat
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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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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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The Convent (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, suspenseful, slasher, harsh, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, serious, independent film
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Once Bitten (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spoof, light, melancholic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, teen, sexy, dark comedy
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My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
Plot Summary:
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, entertaining, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending, eighties
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All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Plot Summary:
When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Maddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller — a loner who claims to practice the dark arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. Remake of their own 2001 feature film.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, queer horror, independent film, erotic, psychological, retro, grindhouse
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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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Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, horror comedy, humorous, gothic, dark comedy, spooky, suspenseful, semi serious
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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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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
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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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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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The Hollow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, gothic horror, tense, suspense, scary, mockbuster, horror comedy, surprise ending
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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
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Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, twist ending, anthology, spooky, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, creepy
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Fright Night (1985)
Plot Summary:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandrige has set his sights on Charley's girlfriend (Amanda Bearse) in this clever spoof of the horror genre.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, cult classic, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, splatter, grindhouse
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Ghoulies (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, sexy, light, splatter, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Waxwork (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicous. What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, classic horror, psychological, funny
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House II: The Second Story (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young urban professionals Jesse (Arye Gross) and his girlfriend Kate (Lar Park Lincoln), move into an old mansion that has been in Jesse's family for generations. They are soon joined by Jesse's goofy friend Charlie (Jonathan Stark), who brought along his diva girlfriend Lana (Amy Yasbeck), in the hopes of being discovered by Kate, who works for a record company. Jesse has returned to this old family mansion after his parents were murdered when he was a baby. While going through old things in the basement, Jesse finds a picture of his great-great grandfather (and namesake) in front of a Mayan temple holding a crystal skull with jewels in the eyes. In the background is a man Jesse learns is Slim Razor, a former partner of his great-great grandfather turned bitter enemy after a disagreement over who would get to keep the skull.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, independent film, spooky, retro, slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, offbeat, suspenseful