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Plot Summary:
In 1967, a chemical plant near a discreet roadside restroom causes an outbreak of gay zombies. At a near by beach cottage a group of best friends must fight off the undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: queer horror, campy
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Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film makers take the movie The Brain Wouldn't Die (1962) and wiped the audio clean and dubbed it over with a new, comedic soundtrack.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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Fire Island (2023)
Plot Summary:
The perfect summer vacation quickly spirals out of control for a group of friends on the infamous, picturesque party getaway of Fire Island as they find themselves caught in a web of sex, lies and cold blooded murder.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: queer horror, slasher, slasher horror
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The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022)
Plot Summary:
After losing his mother, a lonely boy decides to (literally) dig up some new friends, but when they mysteriously come back to life, he’s launched into a series of misadventures as he tries to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: horror comedy
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Zombie Pizza (2017)
Plot Summary:
After losing his father, a teenage boy decides to continue the family business and deliver pizza by bicycle during the zombie apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychotronic, scary, light, feel good, captivating, contemplative
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Bear Creek (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pack of friends in Denver's gay bear community go for the camping trip of a life time filled with fun, laughs and a hot encounter. It all seems innocent enough until a rampaging sociopath joins them ensuring a trip they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bite Marks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Truck-driver Brewster takes over his missing brother's delivery of a load of coffins to a funeral home. He picks up hitchhiking gay couple Cary and Vogel whose relationship is in trouble to help him stay awake but when his GPS leads them into a deserted junkyard, his truck breaks down, stranding them. Night falls, and the coffins reveal blood-thirty vampires. Now the mismatched trio must barricade themselves in the cab of the truck and try to survive until dawn.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, scary, feel good, unusual plot structure, independent film, queer cinema
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Buttcrack (1998)
Plot Summary:
The gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' Preacher Man Bob must right the universal karma accidently set wrong when Brian inadvertantlty kills his obnoxious butt-cleavaged roommate, Wade.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, art house, independent film, spoof, parody
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Gore-met, Zombie Chef from Hell (1986)
Plot Summary:
A cannibal opens up a seafood restaurant, and kills and cooks people to serve to his customers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Mutantz, Nazis and Zombies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Troma Team Video presents the Third Reich film anthology! First up is "The Secret of the Magic Mushrooms" where two young friends go deep in the woods to camp and drink. As they get totally drunk, a terrible accident occurs and one of the friends loses his life. But is death really the end? Maybe a handful of those legendary magic mushrooms can bring him back to life. Next is "Attack of the Tromaggot". The illegal activities of the Mucus Mucus Corporation have left the sewers of Maggotown full of toxic waste. When a tiny maggot escapes from a nearby lab and falls down a drain, directly into a the deadly chemicals, it mutates into the horrifying Tromaggot, a bloodthirsty beast! Will the incompetent police force of Maggotown stop the monster before it's too late? Finally we have "Teenape Vs. The Monster Nazi Apocalypse".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 248 min
Plot tags: tense, horror comedy, splatter, psychotronic
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Zombie Campout (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four friends on a weekend camping trip having the time of their lives, when radio-active meteorites crash into a nearby cemetery all hell breaks loose. Who will make it out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film, spoof, parody, horror spoof, cult film
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Rhythm & Blues (2000)
Plot Summary:
John (Paul Blackthorne), lonely and living in London, unexpectedly meets outlandish druggie skinhead Byron (Ian Henderson), and suddenly, John's life turns to wacky. When Byron takes him to Boys Galore, a gay escort agency, John is introduced to wealthy American Bad Daddy (Angus MacInnes), who hires John on the spot. But the hovering presence of a strange and sinister Ripper, another rent boy, threatens derail the evening of fun in this gay thriller comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, queer cinema
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Necro-Mancing Dennis (2018)
Plot Summary:
A straight wrestling coach finds himself smitten with one of his gay students. A student whose life may soon be in danger. Meanwhile a deranged cemetery worker is infatuated with someone of his own. Someone he can never have....alive! Their stories become entangled in this featurization of the short film "The Caretaker Of Cook County" Adult film sensation Grayson Lange stars with newcomer Daniel Jensen, in his first gay erotic scenes, on or off camera! Also starring Babaloo favorite Addison Graham and Harper Stevenson. This Mystery/Horror film is Written and Directed by Steven Vasquez.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, queer cinema
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A Slice of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
Pizza isn't the only thing delivered in this horror-comedy. Zaffo is a pizza-delivery guy who's constantly ridiculed by his friends and co-workers. When a group of teenagers force Zaffo into a homoerotic situation, he finally decides to fight back, enlisting the help of a psychic and an over-the-top gay customer to cast spells on the boys. Once Zaffo has them under his power, he tortures them … one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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The Road to Edmond (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cleo loves his life as a youth pastor in suburban Denver, but his genuine support for a teenage girl has put his job in jeopardy. When the church's Elder Board becomes aware of the situation, he's asked to take two weeks off to consider his actions and the impact on his role in ministry. Distraught by the arrival of this news via email, Cleo grabs a backpack and bike to hit the road and figure out what's really true. His journey takes a turn toward Edmond, Oklahoma, when he hitches a ride from a mysterious traveler named Larry and his dead father. Larry's intense skepticism along with a string of peculiar signs causes Cleo to question more than his relationship with the teen...he questions the very existence of Love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Curse of the Queerwolf (1988)
Plot Summary:
After being bitten by what he thinks is a transvestite, Larry starts having nightmares about hillbillies, ominous visits from an old gypsy woman, and having the strangest reactions to the full moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, queer horror, parody, sex comedy, independent film, spoof, weird, horror spoof, cult film
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Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, queer horror, experimental, semi serious, humorous, suspense, disturbing, controversial, scary, epic
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Saugatuck Cures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Drew and his best friend Brett set out on a road trip to pose as ex-gay ministers using exuberant high jinks to scam churchgoers, all in order to raise money for his mother's experimental cancer treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Skull & Bones (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Tale of Homo-cidal Mania! Gay sex buddies Nathan and Justin are united by their passion for slasher, vigilante, serial killer and zombie films. Bored and frustrated with their lives as students at an obscure college in impoverished New Haven, Connecticut, they decide to teach a self-important classmate, Andy, a lesson by raping him. The drug-fuelled incident goes awry and Andy dies.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Death Drop Gorgeous (2020)
Plot Summary:
A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, dark drama, black comedy
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Bit (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teenage transgender girl moves to LA and gets involved with a group of intersectional feminist vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, humorous, queer horror, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, queer cinema
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Zombie Women of Satan 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following the release of Zombie Women of Satan, the movie about the events of the first film, Pervo's career hasn't quite gone to plan. Shunned and unwanted, he's a fading star. But not to be defeated, he returns to this sequel with a new manager, a trusty bodyguard and the beautiful actress Dahlia Von Rose as they tour the country promoting their new movie. With things looking bleak though, it seems Pervo's fifteen minutes of fame are just about over. However, a chance encounter with a mystery millionaire could turn all their fortunes around. But is it a chance encounter? Or a diabolical revenge plot? Lured to a party at an enormous mansion, all is going well until those zombie women escape and end up running wild.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath (1993)
Plot Summary:
A meltdown at a nuclear power plant turns a bunch of folks into lethal shambling flesh-eating zombies who go on a gory rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, independent film
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Love Bites (1988)
Plot Summary:
Meet Jake Hunter. He's young, he's cute and he fancies himself as the very model of a modern-day fearless vampire killer. Together with Lesley, his reluctant sidekick, Jake sets out to tackle his greatest challenge ever - the West Hollywood Count. But when the ghoul of his nightmares turns out to be the dashing hunk of his dreams, Jake discovers that there's more to this case than he counted on. Putting a novel, sexy twist on the Transsylvanian myth, Love Bites combines comedy and eroticism in a fabulous gothic gay romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helen and Luella are just another typical God-fearing mother and daughter who happen to bake Mincemeat muffins and run a charming if not a bit faded Bed and Breakfast Inn. Or are they? On the eve of the biggest gay party weekend of the year, and having not made advance reservations, five 'couples' find themselves having to make accommodations far from the city. There's Dom and Alex, the 'performers' and Deborah and Gabby, the sophisticated, entrepreneurial 'lipsticks'. There's also Mike and Eric, the upscale 'yuppie' power couple and their annoying 'fag-hag' friend, Lizette. Also checking in are Starr and Brenda, the struggling folk singer and tough-talking tomboy and lastly Rodney and Todd, the sugar daddy and 'personal trainer'. What should have been the biggest gay party weekend of the year quickly turns into every gay and lesbian's worst nightmare!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, humorous, queer horror, slasher, dark drama, offbeat, independent film, sexual, psychotronic
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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic island town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a rag tag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hordes of undead back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, funny, suspense, entertaining, dark, horror comedy, dark drama
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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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I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the land of early Peter Jackson comes another Braindead movie in bad taste. It’s the third day of shooting the low budget horror ‘Tonight They Come’ on location in the wilds of New Zealand. Director SMP is already beside himself having to work with a self-obsessed leading man and a bimbo actress when into his line of fire comes a new runner, wannabe screenwriter Wesley Pennington. Clearly an accident-prone nerd, Wesley nevertheless tries his best to fit in with the crazed cast and demented crew while falling head over heels for Susan, the set caterer. But something nasty has entered the local water supply and suddenly the zombie extras start acting like genuine members of the living dead, gore stunts looks even more authentic and actual severed limbs fly. Reel life turns real as Wesley attempts to save the day while ensuring his latest script will get made.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, scary, tense, light, humorous, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, scenic, splatter
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Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dating My Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Plot Summary:
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, horror comedy