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Plot Summary:
A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories--about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, fairy tale, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, cult classic, independent film, semi serious
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Blood Theatre (1984)
Plot Summary:
Three young movie theater employees are given the task of re-opening a long closed old-time theater at which many years before a shocking series of grisly murders took place. It seems many more murders have occurred since then but all of this remains unknown to these three young upstart employees hoping to finally make it big on their own. As they approach the grand re-opening night, things keep getting stranger and more unsettling with items suddenly starting to move around by themselves without any seen aid and a terrifying old man seemingly haunting the premises.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, freeze frame, dark comedy, parody
Similar in 89%
Halloween at Aunt Ethel's (2019)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in town knows the story of Old Aunt Ethel. It's said she makes Halloween candy and pumpkin pie out of the kids that trick-or-treat at her house. This Halloween, the neighborhood teens are going to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, scary, crying, psychotronic, sex comedy, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Angel of the Night (1998)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the vampire was Rebecca's great grandfather, Rico.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, splatter, non-linear, psychotronic, freeze frame, horror comedy
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Body Bags (1993)
Plot Summary:
Three tales are told, each one increasingly terrifying. The first tells the story of a woman being stalked by an axe-weilding maniac. The second is the story of a man who pays the ultimate price for a beautiful head of hair. The final tale shows what it is like to see life through the eyes of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, feel good, funny, retro, gothic
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Pledge Night (1988)
Plot Summary:
In order to become a member of a fraternity, the applicants have to go through initiation rituals to show their loyalty. Way back in the 1960s, someone played a nasty trick on the student Sidney Scheider: He had to take a bath in a tub filled with cornflakes and coffee grounds, vinegar and even more disgusting substances. Nothing unusual so far but someone had replaced the water with pure acid. Sidney was seriously wounded and died a horrible death. This year Acid Sid returns with a vengeance, killing everyone who comes his way. One by one is slaughtered and in the college hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, splatter, crying, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, horror comedy, corny, cult film
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Chastity Bites (2013)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory believed that bathing in virgin blood would keep her young and beautiful forever. Still alive today, she's found a perfect hunting ground for her "botox" as an abstinence educator in conservative America...but will she finally be stopped by a brave young blogger and reporter for the high school paper?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, slasher, queer horror, psychotronic, dark comedy, horror comedy, urban fantasy
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There's Nothing Out There (1991)
Plot Summary:
Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings of a person that watches too many videos, but there really is something out there, and the teens begin experiencing an attrition problem when they start stumbling into all the cliches found in a typical teen horror film.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, retro, grindhouse, cult classic
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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Plot Summary:
Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher horror, bloody, slasher, psychological thriller, retro, entertaining, controversial, horror comedy, rough
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Doom Asylum (1987)
Plot Summary:
A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, brutal, bleak, crying, independent film, slasher horror, horror comedy
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The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, slasher, funny, dark, tense, humorous, captivating, freeze frame, dark comedy, scary
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Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, slasher, humorous, crying, horror comedy, weird, urban fantasy
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Angela Baker, a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, horror comedy, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark comedy, slasher horror, psychological thriller
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The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric, cult classic, grindhouse, mindfuck, art house, black comedy, horror comedy
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The Last Horror Film (1982)
Plot Summary:
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Frightmare (1983)
Plot Summary:
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter, crying
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Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. Soon the group begins experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, funny, retro, dark, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic
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The Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, exciting, slasher, dark comedy, suspenseful, scary, funny, splatter, black comedy
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Student Bodies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants. Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood, Kevin Mannis and Sara Eckhardt head the cast.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody, ironic, cult classic, teen, horror comedy, twist ending
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, cult classic, suspenseful, not serious, creepy, cult horror
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Tusk (2014)
Plot Summary:
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, harsh, disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, absurd, grindhouse, horror comedy, creepy
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Plot Summary:
The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspenseful, suspense, black comedy, atmospheric, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, psychological
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Vampires Suck (2010)
Plot Summary:
Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen is torn between two boys. Before she can choose, Becca must get around her controlling father, who embarrasses Becca by treating her like a child. Meanwhile, Becca's friends contend with their own romantic issues - all of which collide at the prom.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, funny, slapstick, satirical, romantic, exciting, horror comedy, social
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Society (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy, cult horror, erotic, horror comedy, atmospheric, bloody
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Brain Damage (1988)
Plot Summary:
A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious, bloody, splatter, cult classic, slasher, dark comedy
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Cursed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, slasher, teen, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, teen horror, suspense, humorous
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Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, twist ending, anthology, spooky, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, creepy
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Shocker (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, sadistic, suspense, splatter, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, grindhouse
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Jennifer's Body (2009)
Plot Summary:
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark comedy, scary, teen horror, slasher, black comedy, teen, horror comedy, cult classic, satirical
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Leprechaun (1992)
Plot Summary:
A horrific Leprechaun goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all of his magical destructive powers to trick, terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough to hinder his relentless search. In a frantic attempt to survive the wrath of the Leprechaun, Tori and her friends scramble to find the only weapon known to kill this Irish monster...a four-leaf clover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, suspenseful, creepy, cult classic, cult horror, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, funny, disturbing, humorous, gothic, scary, horror comedy