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Plot Summary:
A team of reality TV paranormal investigators go to Mexico's most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings. However, when the true dark secrets of the mansion begin to reveal themselves, the hapless team quickly discover that this house is no hoax. With zero genuine ghost-hunting experience, they have to figure out how to stop the ghosts and escape the house with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, not serious, funny, bleak, satirical, absurd, psychotronic, humorous, horror comedy, psychological
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Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake (2004)
Plot Summary:
All Chris wants is to be an accountant. This changes forever when a demon murders his girlfriend and destroys half of his sleepy college campus. Fleeing with Gabriel, the sole surviving member of a celestial team of demon hunters, Chris finds himself immersed in a world of supernatural terrors—a world populated by time-traveling gunslingers, coniferous bounty hunters, and the very demon who killed his friends. Can Chris learn to fight back and survive the horrors of Dead Camper Lake, or will he literally find himself in Hell?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mystical, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Ghost Fever (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two policeman are sent on a routine assignment to serve an eviction notice. It becomes anything but run-of-the-mill when they become involved in the ghostly happenings.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spooky, independent film, sexy, scary, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick, surprise ending
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Weedjies: Halloweed Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a midnight scavenger hunt for a rare bud of weed known as the "Golden Nug" brings a group of party-hungry stoners to a haunted hotel, it seems like it’ll be the greatest night ever. But when the enigmatic owner, Madam Haze, introduces them to the Weed-G-Board, they open a portal beyond our world, and unleash The Weedjies! This group of ghastly hysterical creatures has only one mission: Party ‘till you die. Before Halloween night is over, the unwitting guests will have to fight for their right to party, and put The Weedjies back in the board - or end up sucked into the netherworld forever!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, retro, horror comedy
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Where Got Ghost? (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Where Got Ghost?" is a Horror-Comedy Chinese Movie. 3-in-1 Horror tales told in a good old comedy fashion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, not serious, bleak
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The Good Things Devils Do (2020)
Plot Summary:
It was supposed to be one last heist but it shouldn't be a surprise that a burglary in Transylvania County would be interrupted by an ancient vampire's awakening, resulting in a night of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky
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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Plot Summary:
When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of 'exploitation king' William Castle's supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Doodles Weaver, Jesse White and John ("Gomez Addams") Astin.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Ghost Light (2018)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled summer-stock actor contemptuously disregards the superstition surrounding Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth and, by doing so, unleashes the curse of 'The Scottish Play' and wreaks havoc on the company.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, humorous, suspense, psychotronic, dark, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Grandma (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family come together for the testament after the grandmother dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Untitled Horror Movie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set on computer screens and found footage style content, the movie follows six actors who decide to shoot their own horror movie as their hit TV show is on the brink of cancellation. In their search for a plot, they unintentionally summon a spirit with an affinity for violence, who starts picking them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, scary, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, cyber, horror spoof
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Clinger (2015)
Plot Summary:
When her possessive high school boyfriend dies in a gruesome accident, Fern Petersen's life is thrown into turmoil. Things go from bad to worse when he returns as a love-sick ghost to kill her so they can be together for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, funny, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dementia Part II (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an ex-con takes a job as a handyman for an unstable elderly woman to avoid a parole violation, it becomes a choice he may regret.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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OMG... We're in a Horror Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six friends having a weekly board game night are interrupted by a booming movie trailer voice from the sky. Inexplicably, they find themselves trapped in a Horror Movie. Who amongst them will turn into a homicidal killer? Who will be the sole survivor? And who will be the first to die in the shower? Struggling to break free from the stereotypes that would see them dead, each of the friends try to stay alive in whatever hopelessly desperate ways they can.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, humorous, suspense, spoof, horror comedy, horror spoof
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The Slaughter (2006)
Plot Summary:
A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder leaves the house abandoned for yet another forty years. Now, six fun loving college students are hired to clean up the house for a greedy real estate mogul who plans to sell it for a large profit. They unwittingly awake the demon and only the ultimate sacrifice can save the world from a future of unspeakable evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, campy
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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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Paranormal Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new home.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, spoof, psychotronic, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, horror spoof
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Hell Baby (2013)
Plot Summary:
After she and her husband move into a haunted house, a woman gives birth to a demonic infant that wreaks havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, horror comedy, scary, intense, demonic, mystic, not serious
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Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2019)
Plot Summary:
A priest, a rabbi and a flight crew team up to save their flight from a pandemic of demonic possessions.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, horror comedy
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30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, a young woman returns to the house where her father killed the entire cast of The Artist during his exorcism.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, spoof, humorous, absurd, independent film, horror comedy, fast, horror spoof
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Scary Movie 5 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, absurd, funny, humorous, satirical, not serious, scary, grindhouse, horror comedy
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Vampire Party (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sam, Prune et Alice sont trois amis squatteurs de soirées. Le jour où ils dénichent des invitations pour la très mystérieuse Nuit Médicis, ils pensent avoir décroché le gros lot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
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Ghost Team One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, scary, psychological, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, mockumentary, horror spoof
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Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, absurd, humorous, hilarious, slasher, scary, satirical, horror comedy
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The Walking Deceased (2015)
Plot Summary:
THE WALKING DECEASED is the Scary Movie of the zombie genre, ripping on the biggest and best of zombie pop-culture, arguably the most crazed genre in the world. The story follows a group of survivors from all walks of the apocalypse – an idiotic Sheriff with definite coma-induced brain damage, his hardass son and a hobo with only a crossbow to stave off the walking dead, four squabbling friends forced to survive this zombieland together, and a lonely zombie who just needs love to fully regain his warm body – who leave their once-safe mall hideout in search of the rumored Safe Haven Ranch, a refuge untouched by the zombie virus that has ravaged humanity. But despite the comforting name, they discover that this sanctuary may not be as welcoming as advertised.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, absurd, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Lumberjack Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with "Fun Under the Son", a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, parody, horror comedy, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sexy
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Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
Plot Summary:
When three college guys get caught spying on a sorority ritual, they're forced to accompany the pledges on their next assignment: stealing a trophy from a bowling alley. But the token they pinch has a devilish imp who makes their lives a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, psychotronic, psychological, funny, retro, absurd, sex comedy, grindhouse, mockbuster
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A Haunted House (2013)
Plot Summary:
A spoof of all the "found-footage/documentary style" films released in recent years.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, not serious, clever, absurd, scary, suspense, melancholic
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A Haunted House 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Having exorcised the demons of his ex, Malcolm is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, however, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, horror comedy, psychotronic, satirical, exciting, surreal, absurd
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Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories (2013)
Plot Summary:
Family man Dennis "Murph" Murphy moves next door to Brenner, a friendly bully who torments Murph for declining his offer to hang out. Short film from "Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories".
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, not serious, anthology, humorous, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, absurd
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Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Plot Summary:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd, not serious, slapstick, scary, horror comedy, spooky
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, gothic, parody, offbeat, atmospheric, not serious, witty, dark comedy