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Plot Summary:
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny film within-a-film send-ups: Mars suffers from an air leakage, and send the dreaded Lobster Man to Earth to steal its air. The plot is foiled by a mad scientist, a girl, and an army colonel. The producer buys the movie, but it makes a huge profit and the producer is sent to jail, with the film student taking his place as the studio hot shot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, retro, independent film, offbeat, humorous, epic, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, cult film
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The Killer Eye (1999)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist's experiment goes awry, turning a homeless man's eyeball into a giant killing machine that has an insatiable appetite for young women.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic, sex comedy, spoof, parody, gay cinema
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The Monster of Phantom Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mutated monster terrorizes campers in the woods of 1950's Wisconsin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, retro, parody, horror spoof
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Creature from the Hillbilly Lagoon (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students run afoul of not only a passel of insane, inbred rednecks, but also a humanoid fish monster bent on making chum of them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, suspense, psychotronic, spoof, parody
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Overtime (2011)
Plot Summary:
Raph and Max only kill bad guys, and only after their boss Sam, a high-powered attorney, has cashed a nice paycheck for getting her sleazy clients off the hook. When Sam sends our heroes on a routine hit, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy they never imagined. But whatever trouble they've gotten themselves into is nothing compared to the wrath of Raph's wife if he doesn't make it home in time for his son's birthday party. Being a good hit man is tough; being a good dad is killer!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, spoof, exciting, suspenseful, parody
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Meet the Hollowheads (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. The horny, pervert, rude boss does not know what he is up against when he begins with his advances towards Mrs. Hollowhead and his abundance of rudeness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, offbeat, spoof, dark comedy, futuristic
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The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Naked Monster (2005)
Plot Summary:
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, disturbing, mysterious, psychotronic, independent film, spoof
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Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic, campy
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Plot Summary:
Bugged! tells the story of a group of bumbling exterminators who are called over to the house of an attractive young novelist to rid her house of insects. Unfortunately, due to a horrible chemical mix-up, the poison spray causes the bugs to grow to enormous sizes, and pretty soon everyone's trapped inside the house and have to find a way to stop the dastardly pests before they start multiplying and take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, natural horror, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, campy
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Schlock (1973)
Plot Summary:
A monkey-type monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that he's a giant dog. After kidnapping the girl and fleeing king-kong-like onto the roof of a gym, he gets involved with the army.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, parody, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, witty, not serious, psychotronic
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Interplanetary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nine men and women, employees of Interplanetary Corporation, live and work on Mars. Their days aren't particularly interesting, much less exciting, until they are assaulted by a murderous band of strangers and a seemingly unstoppable alien creature. Do these attacks have anything to do with the Martian fossil recently uncovered by one of the employees? Will the rapidly increasing body count adversely affect Interplanetary's stock price? And can anyone survive long enough to fill out the inevitable paperwork?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, parody, space horror, exciting, offbeat, spoof
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)
Plot Summary:
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, spoof, cult classic, humorous, horror comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, mockbuster, classic horror
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C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud (1989)
Plot Summary:
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, natural horror, sexy, unusual plot structure, bloody, suspense
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One-Eyed Monster (2008)
Plot Summary:
In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming. Amber Benson, Charles Napier, and Ron Jeremy star in an homage to "Alien", "The Thing", and porn.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, parody, funny, suspense, horror comedy, sexual, psychotronic
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Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hilarious re-dubbed sci-fi spoof features "fabulous" aliens "turning" the military gay with their space beam! "A Zany Comedy!" says The New York Times.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, offbeat, spoof, campy
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Big Monster on Campus (2000)
Plot Summary:
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, horror comedy, spooky, independent film, offbeat, gothic, humorous
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Monster High (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two high school goofs steal an explosive device from another world that has been hidden on earth, and an alien named Mr. Armageddon is sent to retrieve it from them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spoof, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, parody, campy
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
Plot Summary:
Remember the good old days when anyone with a camera and a few thousand bucks could schlep up to Bronson canyon and quickly make a cheap sci-fi/horror B-movie? Well, they're back! The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an affectionate, meticulous re-creation of those notoriously cheesy clunkers, as a gaggle of beloved stereotypes pursue "that rarest of radioactive elements - atmospherium.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, stylized, light, atmospheric, absurd, not serious, parody, black and white, cult classic
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The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Plot Summary:
A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, horror comedy
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Movers & Shakers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, campy
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Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994)
Plot Summary:
It's the final chapter in the cult classic Class of Nuke'Em High Trilogy, and this time the fate of Tromaville hangs in the balance! Following the destruction of the Nukamama Power Plant by the lovable and horribly mutated toxic squirrel Tromie. Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) and his half-subhumanoid son Adlai (also played by Brick Bronsky) are working to rebuild Tromaville into a place where human and subhumanoid can live together in peace. Unbeknownst to them, Adlai's twin brother Dick (again played by Brick Bronsky!), kidnapped at birth and raised by the evil Power Clite, has plans to regain contol of the Subhumanoids and turn Tromaville into a nuclear waste dump. In a showdown for the ages, "The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" face off in an explosive sci-fi battle of epic proportions!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, not serious, semi serious, psychotronic
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Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Plot Summary:
Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, splatter, spoof, parody
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30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, a young woman returns to the house where her father killed the entire cast of The Artist during his exorcism.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, spoof, humorous, absurd, independent film, horror comedy, fast, horror spoof
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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
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Plot Summary:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, scary, humorous, spoof, surreal, black comedy, cult classic, light, not serious
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Plot Summary:
Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, parody, humorous, horror comedy, suspenseful, funny, slasher, cult horror, surreal, absurd
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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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Munchies (1987)
Plot Summary:
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, scenic, independent film, scary, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, horror comedy, scary, humorous, slasher, splatter, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, apocalyptic
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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