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Plot Summary:
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, dark comedy, funny, suspense
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I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, scary, realistic, detective, spoof, dark 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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Touch of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, splatter, dark comedy, scary, rough
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Otis (2008)
Plot Summary:
After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag when Otis's unusual brother enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, psychological, suspense, slasher
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Legion of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful California desert when they're kidnapped by the notorious Psycho Mike, The Kern River Killer. Securing their escape through hilarious means and the aid of an old friend they soon stumble into a small desert town where unbeknownst to them a mysterious tall Blond Man and his sadistic henchmen are killing people to create a Legion of the dead. Here's where it gets tricky. William falls in love with Geena, the beautiful waitress at the local restaurant and Luke spins out of control hormonally. The restaurant is suddenly attacked by the LEGION and the tall Blond Man gives an ultimatum to hand over Geena within two hours or he will personally come in to get her. What is the mysterious secret that Geena and the Blond Man share? The clock ticks as the ultimatum draws near. The fight against evil has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, perverse, scary, slasher, splatter
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Death by Engagement (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to track down a vicious serial killer bent on reclaiming his mother's family heirloom wedding ring as it passes from bride to bride with the killer always one step behind, and the detectives one step behind the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic, splatter
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Terror Toons (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, slasher, horror comedy, ridiculous, cult film
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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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Hillside Cannibals (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, mockbuster, serious, rough, suspenseful, dark, independent film, campy
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Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a mass murderer. Meanwhile, a real serial killer is at work in their town and Casey thinks he might know who the maniac is.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, scary
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Psychos in Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, scary, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Monsturd (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
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Blades (1989)
Plot Summary:
HAPPY GILMORE meets MANIAC in this gore-filled swing at one of the most popular sports today, golf. A game of hooks slices...and slaughter!!! Meet Blades, the most terrifying character ever to tear up the screen...and Blades isn't even human. More evil than anything you can imagine, this monster lawn-mower is mauling more than the grass! The golfers on the fairway are all fair games as they try to make it to the 19th hole. BLADES, the teed off, wide radius, possessed power tool, in on a killing spree that will leave even duffers "handicapped"!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, parody, spoof, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Tripper (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, brutal, bloody, perverse, cult classic, terrifying
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Andre the Butcher (2005)
Plot Summary:
Andre the Butcher will make sure you pay for your sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, suspense, horror comedy, campy
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The Cottage (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, disturbing, black comedy, psychological
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Skinned Deep (2004)
Plot Summary:
The horror film Skinned Deep begins when a family suffers a flat tire on a barren stretch of road with only a diner dotting the landscape. They meet Granny, the seemingly nice old woman who runs the establishment, but they soon find that she is the leader of a deranged clan. The family is slain, with the exception of their teenage daughter, Tina whom one of the sons in the family, Brain (a boy with an externalized brain much larger than his head), takes a romantic interest in. Soon a group of bikers show up, forcing the girl to figure out which group of crazies she should throw in with in order to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, serious, independent film, weird, campy
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Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, however, asked to cater the sheriff's wedding by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lamply (Melissa Morgan), and fiancee, Tiffani (Toni Winne). After finding his grandfather's statue of Ishtar, an Egyptian goddess, in a utility closet, he becomes possessed by her evil spirit. He then goes on to create the 'blood feast' his grandfather failed to do, by killing young women in the area and making them into party food for the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, bloody, suspense, dark, disturbing, cult classic, queer horror, independent film, scary
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The Voices (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, surreal, psychological, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, dark, offbeat, suspense, independent film
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Slaughterhouse (1987)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, splatter, horror comedy, funny, cult horror
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Return to Horror High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spoof, slasher, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, independent film, rough
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Drive Thru (2007)
Plot Summary:
Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, slasher, funny, suspense, scary, offbeat
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Hide and Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspense, independent film, biting, campy
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Innocent Blood (1992)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: black comedy, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, horror comedy, psychological thriller, gothic, dark, perverse
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Black Dahlia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Horror master Ulli Lommel is back with a terrifying tale of a copycat killer in Los Angeles. A young rookie cop and his team discover dismembered female bodies in L.A. similar to the Black Dahlia cold case from 1947. A serial killer seems to be copying the brutal massacre of 1940s Hollywood starlet Betty Short - The Black Dahlia. Ultimately his investigation leads him to a frightening lair of death and torture, all part of a terrifying fantasy that the killer is trying to bring to life.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspense, low-budget
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The Great American Snuff Film (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two pretty young women are abducted to be the featured stars of a snuff film produced by a couple low-life goons. The ladies are bound, gagged, tortured, burned with cigarettes and forced to dig their own graves.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, controversial, independent film
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Nightstalker (2002)
Plot Summary:
A stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, detective
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Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, absurd, feel good, psychological, surprise ending, bloody
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Popcorn (1991)
Plot Summary:
A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, scary, funny, retro, dark, dark comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
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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