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Plot Summary:
Two lesbian lovers are forced to flee their hometown after a brutal murder changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film
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Killer Unicorn (2018)
Plot Summary:
Danny is your average Brooklyn party boy. This year, he and his friends couldn't be more excited about the upcoming "Brooklyn Annual Enema Party"; one of Brooklyn's biggest party. While the night starts out fun, it quickly takes a turn for the worst when Danny is attacked by a stranger. In the end, his fabulous drag queen and queer friends are able to save his life, but not without deadly consequences. A year later, Danny is still going throughout the aftermath of that horrible incident and refuses to go to this year's upcoming "Brooklyn Annual Enema Party". His friends want Danny to face his fears and go back out into the world. Danny refuses, but when a new boy, PuppyPup, enters his life, Danny decides to give his social life and the Brooklyn nightlife scene a second chance. It isn't until his friends start to disappear and get killed in gruesome ways that Danny realizes that his life, and everyone else who helped him that night, are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, queer horror, queer cinema
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Mark of the Devil 666 (1995)
Plot Summary:
Is it possible to be possessed by Satan & God at the same time? This is the question Detective Mark Hastings (Wynhoff) and reporter Meredith O'Brien (Dilloo) are trying to answer as they search for an unknown killer who selects victims for dark, twisted reasons, then violently gores them to death and leaves them to be easily discovered. They must work quickly to uncover the truth before another mutilated body is strung up for public display. But whatcan they do when they learn the answer might be too close to home?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 76%
Voodoo Heartbeat (1973)
Plot Summary:
An experimental serum turns a man into a fanged killer beast.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 84%
Creatures from the Pink Lagoon (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1967, a chemical plant near a discreet roadside restroom causes an outbreak of gay zombies. At a near by beach cottage a group of best friends must fight off the undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: queer horror, campy
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Amazon Hot Box (2018)
Plot Summary:
An innocent college student must fight for her life inside a jungle prison with an evil wardress who uses voodoo experiments and a torture machine.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, horror comedy
Similar in 84%
Bear Creek (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pack of friends in Denver's gay bear community go for the camping trip of a life time filled with fun, laughs and a hot encounter. It all seems innocent enough until a rampaging sociopath joins them ensuring a trip they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Kyoko was a child her stepfather loved her sexually. She took refuge in the world of fantasy and multiple personalities. Kyoko has three flat-mates now one of whom is a lesbian who is into Kyoko. In turn, Kyoko is beginning to be horny. Unfortunately, this is not helping Kyoko's precarious mental state.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, queer horror
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Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mike Strauber catches his wife Sharon in bed with his best friend Jerry. He gets mad and takes off to embark on an adventure of murder and self-mutilation in demented games of truth or dare.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, splatter, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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Video Violence (1987)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife open a video store in a new town, and come to find out that the locals only rent horror films and the "occasional triple X'er", and make their own snuff videos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, spooky, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, slasher horror
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Blood Frenzy (1987)
Plot Summary:
A maniac tries to kill off a group of teenagers on an encounter session in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror, weird
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Jackhammer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, awful
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Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three drama students revive three witches, who want to open a gate to hell; Will Spanner and Kelly get involved, while Detectives Lutz and Garner investigate.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, bleak, queer horror, independent film
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Petrified (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a black market antiques deal is botched by a goon and his girlfriend, the mummified remains of an alien they were selling is revived by the blood of the murdered dealer. Elridge (Darrow Igus). The bloodhungry mummy is on the run, and stumbles upon an in-patient psychiatric facility that is home to dozens of beautiful, voluptuous nymphomaniacs.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, queer horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Voyeur.com (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two young entrepreneurs open up a voyeuristic Internet site.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, queer horror, surprise ending, independent film
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Video Violence 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy. Some viewers are shocked and horrified, but many more become avid fans, clamoring for more and more blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, black comedy, dark comedy
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Hoodoo for Voodoo (2006)
Plot Summary:
After winning an all-expenses-paid Mardis Gras vacation in New Orleans, a tight-knit group of college friends prepare for the time of their lives. But boobs, beads and debauchery get pushed to the back burner when murder bubbles up to the surface. A local tourist trap hawking voodoo trinkets seems to be the source of all the trouble, but no one's sure who's pulling the strings when it comes to orchestrating the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, slasher, independent film
Similar in 82%
Doctor Bloodbath (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of Dr. Thorn, an abortionist who uses post-procedure house calls as opportunities to murder his patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 81%
555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: gothic, queer horror, scary, bleak, suspense, dark drama, gothic horror, queer cinema
Similar in 89%
Evil Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of rich college brats conspire to play a prank on Jimmy Fisher, the school nerd. But when Jimmy ends up unconscious, the co-eds leave him and head out to a party. What they don't realize is that, when Jimmy wakes up, the evil inside of him triggers and he sets out for revenge as he offs his tormentors in some very original ways: exploding cigarettes, beer bottles, mops, spiked frat paddles and more.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two Texas gardeners, who object to Northern attitudes and lifestyles, venture northward to cut lawns, trim hedges, and murder and mutilate Northern Yuppies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, independent film, slasher horror
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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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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But things have a way of backfiring. . .don't they? So don't be surprised if Clare and Julie wind up on tonight's menu!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
Similar in 75%
Caress of the Vampire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young woman moves into a home and is immediately seduced by her neighbor, a lesbian vampire who is also an alien. Much faux-lesbian action commences.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film
Similar in 77%
My Animal (2023)
Plot Summary:
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie in a small northern town, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 84%
Embrace the Darkness (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vampires Galen and Miranda have just moved to Los Angeles. Galen wants to lay low and get his blood from a nearby blood bank while Miranda likes hers fresh, young, and virile. When Galen notices dancer Jennifer masturbating on her studio floor, he falls in love and sets out to pursue her. Miranda becomes jealous and seduces Jennifer, too, while Jennifer's cop boyfriend Ryan senses that she is becoming too friendly with Galen and Miranda. Meanwhile, Ryan and Detective Turner have their hands full trying to figure out why bloodless bodies keep turning up with two puncture wounds on the neck.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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Dead by Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas Past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic
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Werewolf in a Womens Prison (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, queer horror, scary, offbeat, serious, hot, campy
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Brain Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, queer horror, offbeat, humorous
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Headless (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, suspense, controversial, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, bloody, extreme horror