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Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Horrible Dr. Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
In this hip-hop slanted horror opus, a group of stuggling rap musicians think they've gotten their big break when they're tapped to record with star-making producer Dr. Bones. But the rappers soon learn that Dr. Bones has more than music on his mind; he's using their music to turn listeners into zombies -- and then force his willing slaves to join him in a bid to take over the world! Veteran comic actor Darrow Igus stars alongside newcomer Larry Bates and Sarah Scott.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, offbeat, surprise ending, campy
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Lady of the Lake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with a pretty ghost and travels back in time to save her soul from an evil knight.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Chilling (1989)
Plot Summary:
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zombie Attack: Museum of the Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
One night a year, a museum opens it's doors to exhibit a collection of cursed artifacts... But something hideous is roaming these halls, feasting on the flesh of the innocent. A cannibalistic horror is alive! The hunger is spreading, and the only escape is through the hordes of the damned.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Killing Twice: A Deadhunter Chronicle (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Deadhunters must fight versus a monster possessed by the spirit of a biblical demon who is killing people in a High School. There's no choice but to spend one night inside the building trying to hunt and kill this diabolical creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult film
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Werewolves of Stayville (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist by the name of Dr. Nueve is responsible for unleashing werewolves and a zombie upon the citizens of Stayville, while a local police officer named Karen also a werewolf has been killing off citizens left and right. Intrepid heroes come to the rescue of this city tormented by killer monsters who must be annihilated.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Gut Instincts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gut Instincts contains four horrific little tales. Call Me is about a man who thinks a night of passion is in store, but when he gets home, what awaits him is far from passion. In Patterson Road, a group of teens ventures to a wooded area rumored to have a hidden cemetery. They should have been careful what they asked for because in this case, that's exactly what they got. Speaking Ill of the Dead has a basic theme that karma is a bitch. And Trip has Terra, a struggling alcoholic looking for anything to decrease her stress. In all of these tales, characters had a bad feeling, a gut instinct, about what they were doing, but they didn't listen and paid the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, anthology, independent film
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The Night Brings Charlie (1990)
Plot Summary:
A late era slasher firmly stuck in 1983 that knows how to keep it simple: a quiet, hooded tree-trimmer goes on a twisted killing spree in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
Plot Summary:
A group of six friends are out in the rural south on a deer hunt (even though one of the six is blind), when they start hearing strange noises coming from the woods. An investigation of the sounds leads them to an old Confederate graveyard, which suddenly begins sprouting Rebel zombies. Like the living dead in every other movie, these zombies are hungry for human flesh, and soon set to chowing down on the hapless hunters.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Life (1989)
Plot Summary:
Archie works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile accident, and the bodies are taken to his uncle's mortuary. Archie is pulling a late night at the mortuary when he sees a storm brewing. Lighting strikes! They're alive! The preppie bullies continue to torment him...as zombies!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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The Dead One (1961)
Plot Summary:
A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Bombshell Bloodbath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Carter losts his wife and devotes his life to resurrecting her. However, every test of his C-900 formula creates hungry, flesh-eating zombies. Then, his daughter Cara contracts the virus and she and her sister strive to obtain the anti-serum.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic, independent film
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The Laughing Dead (1989)
Plot Summary:
Zombies, demons, and a mad doctor await a bus-load of folks looking for a tour of Aztec ruins. Father O'Sullivan is a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God and who cannot forget the nun with whom he once had an affair (and a son). O'Sullivan serves as tour guide for archaeological student Cal, New Agers Wilbur and Clarisse Lemming, runaway Laurie, and tourists Dozois and Frost on a bus trip to Mexico. No one is more surprised than O'Sullivan when his love, Tessie, also boards the bus with her bratty son Ivan. In Mexico, Cal reveals his knowledge of a crucial ancient text, just in time for the Day of the Dead festivities. Meanwhile, evil Dr. Um-tzec is planning an apotheosis for himself that will culminate in his incarnation as the Death God, and what he needs to accomplish this is the hearts of sacrificial children ... lots and lots of hearts. While Father O'Sullivan grapples with the emotions of seeing Tessie again, he is approached by Dr. Um-tzec to perform an exorcism; but.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Goblin (1993)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Night of the Flesh Eaters (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the most evil night of the year, a beautiful blond woman and ruggedly handsome archeologist hitman find themselves trapped in a forest haunted by bizarre flesh eating Native American demon zombies. As they flee the woman's crime boss husband, who seeks to murder them for their illicit love affair, their car is destroyed in a head-on collision with one of the demons, a Stone Man. The blond woman and assassin must escape the perils of the dark and evil forest, on foot, without becoming demon food or getting themselves slaughtered by the woman's vengeful, fat cat husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spoof, parody, horror spoof
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Evil Clutch (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of a hideous monster who takes the form of a beautiful, seductive woman who in a torrent of special effects, beauty and monster transform into a climax of pure evil. For years this monster woman has cursed a small village, and to this day her deadly grasps holds the peaceful residents in fear. This ferocious, feminine fury possesses a shocking sensual appetite and she can only satisfy her lust when passion consumes her, by striking where a man is most vulnerable.... and the results are deadly!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, disturbing
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Doomed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds).
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Plot Summary:
An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of savage hoodlums, and three sisters do their best to stay alive and survive this harrowing ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Forever Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of zombies that are used by the government to fight in a major war in the near future get launched into space. The space shuttle gets caught in a time warp and returns to Earth in the present day. Naturally, the zombies get loose and terrorize a motley assortment of folks who are trapped inside a high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But things have a way of backfiring. . .don't they? So don't be surprised if Clare and Julie wind up on tonight's menu!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Zombie Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the two rise from their graves and return to the land of the living as zombies. Dr. Death is resurrected with a new mission in mind, to take over the world. The "zombie" cop enlists the aid of his old police buddies to stop the mad priest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Dead Squad (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The Dark Power (1985)
Plot Summary:
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild
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The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
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Shriek (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, queer horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema, cult film
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Demon Resurrection (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic