Best movies like Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies like Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass? Offer your expertise to help others to tv series and movies you've previously watched that may also fascinate them. Help widen the community of people alluding videos to one another. We welcome your input!
Plot Summary:
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order to reestablish a livable atmosphere for what's left of humanity, he'll have to go on a solitary mission to retrieve important codes dispersed in remote locations. Soon enough, he'll encounter more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment, LOTS of walking and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, offbeat, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
Best tv shows and movies like Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011):
Similar in 81%
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the hit web series of the same name, the science fiction/adventure/comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, follows a disgruntled gamer who must overcome his fear of the worst video game of all time in order to save his fans. Hilarity ensues as a simple road trip becomes an extravagant pursuit of the unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, captivating, independent film, offbeat, campy
Similar in 88%
Psycho Goreman (2020)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, suspense, slasher, tense, captivating, absurd, splatter, dark comedy, psychological, funny
Similar in 88%
The Midnight After (2014)
Plot Summary:
A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there’s a young man on drugs, an arguing couple, a woman with prayer beads and a girl who has just fallen in love. And behind the wheel sits the chatty driver. But as the bus emerges from a tunnel, everything is suddenly quite still: the streets and buildings are all empty and there’s not a soul to be seen; it’s as if everyone has suddenly been swallowed by the earth. Only the millions of neon lights continue to blink, as if nothing has happened. The eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted café and discuss what they should do. Then they make an horrific discovery….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, surreal, twisted, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, serious
Similar in 81%
Recon 2023: The Gauda Prime Conspiracy (2009)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years of intergalactic war, humanity must make a final stand against the Ma'har invaders. Dispatched to the treacherous deserts of Gauda Prime, Lieutenant Sharp (Anderson Bradshaw) and his unit must find and destroy the enemy's central weapon, the dreaded Ma'har dream machine. The obstacles are daunting- giant mutated creatures and an army of zombified sand troopers stand between the unit and their objective. They must thwart a devious politician (UFC Octagon Girl Edith Labelle in her screen debut) and her hideously disfigured mercenary, The Face (Lael Stellick.) Political intrigue will prove as challenging as the monstrous faun of Gauda Prime but Sharp's team are humanity's only fighting chance against the deadly Ma'har armada.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, futuristic
Similar in 88%
Turks in Space (2006)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2055, and the universe is in a state of turmoil, awaiting the formation of a government that can establish universal peace. Until such a time, the Orion Union stands in its stead, an uneasy alliance made up not of planets, but of their individual states, overlorded by unruly gangs, short-sighted tyrants and hissing, domineering queens. In short, chaos reigns.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, offbeat, campy
Similar in 78%
I Heart Doomsday (2010)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds an android to reconnect with his amnesiac lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, captivating, suspense
Similar in 85%
The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)
Plot Summary:
The forces of evil are attempting to recapture a human-inhabited Earth-like planet that has been liberated by rebels. The son of one of the rebel leaders, an electronic genius, searches the galaxy for a hero and finds Captain Zoom, star of a 1950s TV series. He is transported to the planet as its savior, which role he must play despite himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, campy
Similar in 78%
U.F.O. (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. Suddenly this regular group of friends is battling to survive as the entire human race is threatened by the alien army hovering ominously above.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror comedy
Similar in 79%
Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Similar in 76%
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disguised as executives from a Dutch Oil Company, Aliens from outer space buy a local farming company and promise to create jobs for the failing farming town. Their goal is to use crop circles to heat up the temperature of the earth and eventually turn the entire planet into a Club-Med for extra-terrestrials.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, suspenseful, sex comedy, offbeat, teen comedy, cult film
Similar in 76%
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, scary, creepy, exciting, offbeat, feel good, weird
Similar in 81%
Encrypt (2003)
Plot Summary:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir, futuristic
Similar in 80%
Freaked (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, stylized, psychotronic, surprise ending, brutal, absurd, black comedy, grindhouse
Similar in 87%
G.O.R.A. (2004)
Plot Summary:
A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, cult classic, offbeat
Similar in 88%
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the concept of "New America" in the year 2097, two decades after a nuclear apocalypse, Tex Kennedy, two robotic ex-secret service agents, and a female cannibal journey to find a famously dangerous area known as the "Threshold of Hell" to gain access to a radio tower to unite the survivors of the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, apocalyptic, dark comedy, futuristic, political comedy
Similar in 80%
Mutant World (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful symptoms of a post-apocalyptic environment.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
Similar in 86%
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and their leaders, the 7-foot space sirens Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna. This lavishly low-budget sci-fi romp has the bodacious aliens planning to overrun Earth with their vege-men army, but first they want the G.I.s to explain the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, parody, psychotronic, campy
Similar in 90%
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, offbeat, semi serious, independent film, parody, light, road movie
Similar in 76%
Galaxina (1980)
Plot Summary:
Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic, psychotronic, spoof, erotic, grindhouse, anamorphic
Similar in 79%
A Ticket to Space (2006)
Plot Summary:
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu est organisé. "Le ticket pour l'espace", un jeu à gratter, va permettre à deux civils de séjourner dans la station orbitale européenne.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, parody, offbeat, spoof
Similar in 78%
Spaced Out (2006)
Plot Summary:
The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap horrific havoc on earth and threaten life itself. Meanwhile, ace investigative reporter extraordinaire, Al Manac (James Vallo), has been held captive for two years in their space lair.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, independent film, offbeat, spoof, parody, campy
Similar in 80%
Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, entertaining, slapstick
Similar in 89%
Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Plot Summary:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, vintage, campy, cult film
Similar in 85%
Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, exciting, humorous, semi serious, funny, spoof
Similar in 89%
Heaven's Soldiers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, rough, offbeat
Similar in 81%
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic, mind bending, cult classic, twisted, offbeat, humorous
Similar in 78%
Illegal Aliens (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil. Guided by Syntax, their holographic mentor, these Illegal Aliens are willing to use every trick in the book and every sexy outfit in their wardrobe to accomplish their mission! "Illegal Aliens" pokes fun at today's Hollywood and pays tribute to the so-called "Bad Movies" we all love to hate.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, sex comedy, independent film, spoof, exciting, parody
Similar in 80%
Evolution (2001)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, light, not serious, stylized, exciting, epic, black comedy
Similar in 82%
A.R.O.G (2008)
Plot Summary:
Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, parody, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, stylized, prehistoric
Similar in 87%
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Plot Summary:
'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, spoof, futuristic, funny, black comedy, stylized, melancholic