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Plot Summary:
Do You Like My Basement? tracks how one man's creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. Stanley Farmer was rejected universally by the film world. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish charm and a sociopath's streak compelled him to produce a home-made magnum opus. A film that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and demands the attention of the very world that spurned him.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, scary, feel good, dark comedy, serious, black comedy
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Attitude for Destruction (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood Roses is starting to make it big and they’re ready for the next step. Of course all their success has come after the band killed off the original founder, Drake. Once they realized he was holding them back, they turned on him and now they’re the best thing out there. Of course his girlfriend hasn’t forgiven them and now the band is gonna have to deal with Drake’s Ghost!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, slasher, realistic
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The Black Room (1982)
Plot Summary:
A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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May I Kill U? (2012)
Plot Summary:
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Smash Cut (2009)
Plot Summary:
Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, bloody, suspense, meta, slasher, humorous, realistic, black comedy
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Shock Value (2014)
Plot Summary:
Struggling 'B' movie Director blackmails a serial killer to be the star of his next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, horror comedy
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I Blame Society (2020)
Plot Summary:
A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film... and committing the perfect murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, humorous, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, funny, mumblecore, mockumentary
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Chop (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, horror comedy, humorous, psychological, splatter, realistic, detective
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A Bucket of Blood (1995)
Plot Summary:
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Dark Reel (2008)
Plot Summary:
Murder, mystery and mayhem as B movie fan, Adam Waltz, wins Walk on Role in a film Featuring Scream Queen, Cassie Blue (Tiffany Shepis). Thinking his luck had changed for the better he steps into chaos with a killer loose and no one on the production safe.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bloody, independent film
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Actress Apocalypse (2005)
Plot Summary:
This saucy mockumentary follows a first-time filmmaker with ambitions to make "the greatest movie ever made," a low-budget slasher boasting a Native American killer. The director knows buxom starlets are the key to his success. But when the ladies start disappearing one by one, his plan goes bust -- and he goes crazy. Indie rockers Space Probe Taurus provide the soundtrack to this unrated director's cut that leaves little to the imagination.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, not serious, mockumentary, suspense, offbeat, realistic, independent film, experimental, dark comedy
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Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, realistic, horror comedy, scary, independent film, horror spoof, campy
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The Taming of the Shrews (2009)
Plot Summary:
A horror-comedy of errors, Die-ner (get it?) explores the existential dilemma of a sociopath killer who runs into the unique problem of his victims rising from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, realistic
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Holla II (2013)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping with her life at the hands of her mentally ill sister Veronica, Monica, with the help of her Mother, Marion, has taken great measures to ensure her safety, including changing her face and relocating to the South. Six years has past and now she finally believes she is safe from Veronica. Little does she know that death and betrayal still await her and her friends on the eve of her wedding at a southern plantation house rumored to be haunted by 13 murdered slaves. This time no one is safe and everyone is a suspect as killing becomes addictive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, teen horror, campy
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The Janitor (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lionel is a custodian that longs for more. Bombarded with daily disrespect and insults from his co-workers, Lionel sets on a path of revenge and begins to brutally murder everyone in his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, humorous, suspenseful, independent film, slasher, suspense, realistic, semi serious, bizarre
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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, suspense, independent film, semi serious, biting, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Screamplay (1984)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark comedy, psychological, surreal, black and white, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Kevin Pollak: The Littlest Suspect (2010)
Plot Summary:
THE LITTLEST SUSPECT is the third one hour stand-up special by Kevin Pollak. Although best known for his award-winning work as an actor in over sixty films (A Few Good Men, Casino and The Usual Suspects), Kevin started out as a stand-up comedian, and was recently named on of the Top 100 Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central. Kevin is also the host of an award-winning talk show, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, which streams live online.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, light, feel good
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3 Geezers! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today's reality. After being on the wrong end of some pranks, J enlists the help of his Hollywood friends to turn the tides. Mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good
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Stuntmen (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between the two men that results in an all out press war.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, mockumentary
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He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Plot Summary:
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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The Trouble with Barry (2013)
Plot Summary:
Barry Montenegro, a ruthless, cynical, politically incorrect, and quite possibly sociopathic Hollywood actor becomes the prime suspect when a series of brutal murders rocks his latest production.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, humorous, suspense, entertaining, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Tinseltown (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Effects (1979)
Plot Summary:
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Julia X (2011)
Plot Summary:
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, serious, suspense, slasher, sexual, horror comedy, rough
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Evil Eyes (2004)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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Love On The Cloud (2014)
Plot Summary:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Plot Summary:
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, witty
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and outright self-parody improv in this deliciously deadpan comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, clever, talky
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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Plot Summary:
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, dark comedy, suspenseful, mockumentary, horror comedy, funny, bloody, satirical, atmospheric