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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
Best tv shows and movies like Big Monster on Campus (2000):
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Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic, campy
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The Invisible Maniac (1990)
Plot Summary:
An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, sex comedy, sexy, mockbuster, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, humorous, semi serious, splatter
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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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Killjoy Goes To Hell (2012)
Plot Summary:
Killjoy is back in the fourth installment of the demonic clown series. This time Killjoy is being accused of not being evil, since he let one of his victims(Sandie) get away. Killjoy must rely on his only chance of proving how evil he really is... get Sandie into hell as his witness.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, witty, humorous, bloody, rough, independent film, horror comedy
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Head of the Family (1996)
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
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Fangs (2002)
Plot Summary:
Scottsville is a sleepy town, where the yearly apple blossom festival is usually the only 'memorable' event, so Police Chief Sam Taylor is furious when young cop Ally Parks -who comes from the big city- insists on investigating the death and mutilation of prof. Fuller, who experimented on bats, and soon several other victims, as unnatural bat attacks. She finds a helpful 'expert' in animal controller Dr. John Winslow, and the couple gets help from his inquisitive daughter Genny and her practically in-living high school-friend Logan to unravel how it all ties in with local real estate mogul Carl Hart's dishonest and corrupt practices.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, natural horror
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Lizard Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
If you were a brilliant geneticist, working on a secret government genetic engineering project, and your fiancee dumped you because your sperm were not viable, what would you do to resolve your mid-life crisis? Dr. Gino Conti creates his own son by combining reptilian and human DNA, but discovers fatherhood an extraordinary challenge when his son's anger management issues include eating people.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, humorous, witty
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Monster High (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two high school goofs steal an explosive device from another world that has been hidden on earth, and an alien named Mr. Armageddon is sent to retrieve it from them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spoof, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, parody, campy
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Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)
Plot Summary:
The class of nuke 'em high is back, and this time they're in college! Tromaville's nuclear factory has been rebuilt and now includes the Tromaville institute of technology. Located inside the nuclear plant, Tromaville Tech is where Prof. Holt has perfected Sub-humanoids.... Living beings without emotions, who have been genetically programmed to perform menial tasks. When school reporter Roger Smit.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, not serious, fast, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a mass murderer. Meanwhile, a real serial killer is at work in their town and Casey thinks he might know who the maniac is.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, scary
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Zapped Again! (1990)
Plot Summary:
A new kid moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies and joining the beleaguered Science Club. But when an old potion is discovered to confer telekinetic power he gets the chance to get his own back, as well as having a bit of fun on the side.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, dark, independent film, sexy, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious, teen sex comedy, hot
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Dr. Caligari (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, horror comedy, cult classic
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Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
Plot Summary:
Another spoof of the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer horror gene involving a group of popular high school students stalked by a bumbling masked killer while a dogged reporter named Hagitha Utslay covers the story and of the plight of the prime suspect and transfer student Dawson.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, light, scary, slasher, sexy, suspense, horror comedy
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You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Monroe (Monroe Mann) and Hilary (Crystal Arnette) have discovered that they have inherited a lake house and to make things even better, the famous horror author Stephen King is rumoured to live somewhere nearby. They decide to take their friends down to the lake house to check things out, only to find immediate resistance from all of the locals, who insist that King doesn't live in the area. Despite being completely unwelcome, they decide to stay and soon find that people are being killed one by one in a manner similar to several deaths in various Stephen King stories.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, mockbuster, horror comedy, realistic, independent film, horror spoof
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Night of the Living Dorks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three not-so-cool school friends decide to try a old voodoo ritual. Later, they die in a car accident, but live on as zombies. But being a zombie has advantages, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, dark comedy, biting
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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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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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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Plot Summary:
A college student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' on campus which resurrects the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, semi serious, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, sexual, sexy
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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers who, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up releasing a horde of blood thirsty zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, slasher, saga
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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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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Class Reunion (1982)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, spoof, funny, parody, horror comedy, scary, humorous, erotic, sex comedy, dark comedy
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Return to Horror High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spoof, slasher, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, independent film, rough
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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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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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Trippin' (1999)
Plot Summary:
Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His mom wants him to apply to colleges, but Greg hasn't a clue. One of his teachers, Mr. Shapic, tries to inspire him, too. He finally figures out he can get close to Cinny if he asks her for help with college applications. But friendship isn't enough, he wants romance and a prom date. So, he tells a few lies and, for awhile, it seems to be working. Then, things fall apart and Greg has to figure out how to put the trippin aside and get real.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
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Popcorn (1991)
Plot Summary:
A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, scary, funny, retro, dark, dark comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat