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Plot Summary:
One man's courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, slasher, absurd, splatter, allegory, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, weird
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Revenge of Billy the Kid (1991)
Plot Summary:
The horny farmer McDonald has his wicked way with a goat. Life returns to normal for the family, until the goat gives birth! The mutant off spring, called Billy, is tormented by the Farmer's sons, only the daughter feels any pity for him. It isn't long before Billy, who keeps growing bigger, plans revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, horror comedy, bizarre
Similar in 85%
Jungle Freaks (1969)
Plot Summary:
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, MacunaÃma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
Similar in 79%
Wound (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wound is a supernatural horror that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met – a mother who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father who remains stuck in her present life. Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess her mother with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution. A dark, disturbing look into a haunted woman’s mind. This is one terrible dream you will never wake up from.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, weird
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Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, parody, spooky, splatter, horror comedy, weird
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Someone's Knocking at the Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing, erotic, sexy, controversial
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Horror Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, decadent reading for maids. It takes you through the history of the cinema, from silent films, to the beginning of sound and up to the very present.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, expressionism, spoof, dark comedy, metafiction, horror spoof
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German Angst (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, psychedelic, bloody, controversial
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Thanatomorphose (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thanatomorphose is a french word meaning the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl a wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, brutal, surreal, controversial, avant garde
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Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
Plot Summary:
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, cult classic, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surreal, cult film
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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody, horror spoof
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A Cat in the Brain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, bloody, disturbing, controversial, clever, suspense, horror comedy, scary, rough
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Terror Firmer (1999)
Plot Summary:
TROMA crew are the only folks capable of stopping a crazed hermaphrodite from continuing it's violent rampage!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, bloody, funny, disturbing, controversial, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror
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The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, dark, surreal, absurd, horror comedy, rough, funny, romantic, sexy
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Blood Diner (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: black comedy, scary, slasher, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, slapstick, funny, bloody, disturbing
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Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: absurd, scary, bleak, slasher, dark comedy, splatter, independent film, weird, campy
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Desperate Living (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal, witty, allegory, biting
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Goodbye, 20th Century (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country:
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, surreal, dark comedy, mind bending, controversial, apocalyptic, mystic, horror comedy, slasher, absurd
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Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, horror comedy, exciting, humorous, captivating, psychological, funny, slasher, avant garde, dark comedy
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Jessicka Rabid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jessicka is held captive and treated like a human dog. But when she's let loose there will be hell to pay.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, grindhouse, controversial, independent film, serious, realistic
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The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, sensual, creepy, terrifying, queer horror, scary
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Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, splatter, tense, disturbing
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We Are the Flesh (2016)
Plot Summary:
After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: avant garde, disturbing, slasher, erotic, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, brutal
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Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, however, asked to cater the sheriff's wedding by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lamply (Melissa Morgan), and fiancee, Tiffani (Toni Winne). After finding his grandfather's statue of Ishtar, an Egyptian goddess, in a utility closet, he becomes possessed by her evil spirit. He then goes on to create the 'blood feast' his grandfather failed to do, by killing young women in the area and making them into party food for the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, bloody, suspense, dark, disturbing, cult classic, queer horror, independent film, scary
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Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, anthology, bloody, suspense, experimental, controversial, extreme horror
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Rubber (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: absurd, parody, surreal, horror comedy, road movie, melancholic, dark comedy, semi serious, clever, bloody
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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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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, surreal, parody, ironic, spoof, funny, slapstick, hilarious, dark comedy
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Taxidermia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic, offbeat, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic
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Dead Snow (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, dark comedy, splatter, humorous, bloody, suspense, horror comedy, satirical, grindhouse, creepy
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Braindead (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bloody, splatter, dark comedy, humorous, surreal, disturbing, black comedy, brutal, funny, creepy