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Plot Summary:
The town of Shadowhawk is overrun with the undead when it gets caught in the war between two brothers, each leading their own army of the undead. One of the brothers has sold the townsfolk his “magical elixir” promising them immortality. What he doesn’t tell them is that he’s recruiting them for his zombie army, and they will develop an unquenchable hunger for human flesh!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, spaghetti western, spoof, parody
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Zombie Toxin (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dead horse infects two men with a disease that turns them in to overacting, poorly made up zombies. As they carry on defecating and vomiting on each other they contaminate a field of yeast, giving two Nazi-wannabes the idea of buying the infected field, selling the yeast in home wine-brewing kits and destroying the rest of humanity by spreading the infection.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Ghost Riders (1987)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880s comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse's leader.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: wild
Similar in 75%
Zombiez (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Forever Yours (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two intertwining stories of a group of people dealing with their loved ones being attacked by zombies. One won't accept the loss, while the other seeks revenge on every undead creature she can hunt. Josh plans to propose to his girlfriend, Kate. His plans go off track and even further from what he planned when they encounter a group of survivors from a zombie attack. They soon find themselves held in siege in a basement surrounded by a horde of zombies. While this is happening, Patti must witness her boyfriend and roommates killed by the undead. Patti arms herself with a machete and goes on the hunt for revenge against every creature she can find. Flashbacks give light to how her life and the lives of those she lost were interrupted. And her path becomes laid out in blood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, rough, surprise ending, 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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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:
No overview found.
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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Gore Whore (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a lab assistant steals an important formula and all its documentation from Dr. Whitman, he hires a bottom-of-the-barrel private eye, Chase Barr, to locate it. When Barr digs deeper into the case he finds the lab assistant is actually a dead street whore and the "formula" is a reanimation agent that, with the consumption of human blood, is keeping her alive! In trying to retrieve the formula, Chase is given a rollercoaster ride through hell as the whore reanimates corpses to attack him and help her hold onto the formula.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, twisted, independent film
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Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Stever gets up close and personal with many of the talented filmmakers and stars in exclusive backstage interviews. Stever captures the set-up of the memorabilia and collectibles stands by the hard-working staff and volunteers, the panel discussion with Romero, Barbeau and others moderated by Roy Frumkes, and the long lines of fans, some adorned in full costume and make-up, waiting to get autographs of their favorite horror legends.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: educational, independent film
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Ozone! Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986)
Plot Summary:
An ecological disaster turns some rednecks into flesh-eating mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: splatter, dark comedy, horror comedy
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One Last Sunset (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters struggle to exist after an apocalyptic virus has turned the entire human population into flesh eating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Short, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Dead Start (2009)
Plot Summary:
A zombie plague takes over the United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: 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 Cult Massacre (1998)
Plot Summary:
Branch-Davidian-style cultists battle both zombies and bikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: psychedelic
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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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Vampire Junction (2001)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, psychotronic, spaghetti western, euro western
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Bone Sickness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, medical horror, terrifying, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird
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Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Elmer Winslow is a soldier on the run from the Union Army, and Luke Budd is a cowboy with a broken heart. When the two misfits rob the corrupt sheriff of an old west town, they have no idea that a plague of zombies is sweeping the country, or that Geronimo's sexy niece may be their only hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, scary, funny, apocalyptic, horror comedy, rough, offbeat, psychotronic
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FleshEater (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, cult classic, psychotronic, tense, atmospheric, rough, offbeat, bleak
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The Dead Next Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bloody, cult classic, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, epic, serious
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A Few Brains More (2012)
Plot Summary:
The journey of zombie Lily and Jack from Fistful of Brains continues in the 70's where they fight Dead Eye and his hippie hordes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gallowwalkers (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, wild
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Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the professor. Out of the blue, the zombies attack them and they seek shelter in the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, bloody, slasher, disturbing, cult classic, atmospheric