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Plot Summary:
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, entertaining, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending, eighties
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The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helen and Luella are just another typical God-fearing mother and daughter who happen to bake Mincemeat muffins and run a charming if not a bit faded Bed and Breakfast Inn. Or are they? On the eve of the biggest gay party weekend of the year, and having not made advance reservations, five 'couples' find themselves having to make accommodations far from the city. There's Dom and Alex, the 'performers' and Deborah and Gabby, the sophisticated, entrepreneurial 'lipsticks'. There's also Mike and Eric, the upscale 'yuppie' power couple and their annoying 'fag-hag' friend, Lizette. Also checking in are Starr and Brenda, the struggling folk singer and tough-talking tomboy and lastly Rodney and Todd, the sugar daddy and 'personal trainer'. What should have been the biggest gay party weekend of the year quickly turns into every gay and lesbian's worst nightmare!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, humorous, queer horror, slasher, dark drama, offbeat, independent film, sexual, psychotronic
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The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
Plot Summary:
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, political, horror comedy, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Stepmonster (1993)
Plot Summary:
Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, nostalgic
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Tequila Body Shots (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three buddies discover a road trip for a party in Mexico can take more out of you than expected. Things begin to take a strange turn when Johnny gets mind reading powers from a medicine man's magical tequila. Johnny's friends want him to use these powers to get women but Johnny's mind is only on the beautiful Tamlyn. Reaching Tamlyn proves more challenging when Johnny realizes that not only is her punk ex-boyfriend stalking her but also that Tamlyn's past life's husband, Hector, wants her back! Johnny and his friends are in for the adventure of their lives as they race to save Tamlyn - and themselves - from the clutches of Hector at a deadly party in hell. Luckily, our heros have time to squeeze in an enlightening round of truth or dare, drink themselves silly, and, oh yeah, get laid. The comical escapades are tied together by tequila body shots which are not only fun to drink but also conjure the souls of the dead back to life!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
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Woodchipper Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jon, Tom, and Denise accidently kill their senile old Aunt while she's looking after them while their father is away on business. Not sure what to do, they decide to dispose of the body in the rented woodchipper in the backyard. But more trouble comes a-knocking when their cousin Kim, their Aunt's son, shows up unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher horror
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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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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Plot Summary:
When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of 'exploitation king' William Castle's supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Doodles Weaver, Jesse White and John ("Gomez Addams") Astin.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Weedwolf (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Weedwolf, the outrageous residents of small-town Normal, Texas, find their partying ways threatened by a mysterious werewolf who likes to eat stoners. All that stands in the way of total mayhem (or maybe the casue of it) is Grass County Sheriff Hardwood, his "gifted" man-scout son, Bumper, and his "illegal" deputy, Rodriguez. They'll find some help from Mary Jane, and her Uncle Junebug, the drunken talk show host and his nympho co-anchor, Indian wanna-be hippies, a survivalists, hot lesiban lovers, and the one-and-only "Willie", and even a sasquatch.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, semi serious, humorous
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A Werewolf in the Amazon (2005)
Plot Summary:
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, suspense, sexy, offbeat, not serious, campy
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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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Zombies Vs. Strippers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Tough Titty is about to go under after losing a lot of money and gaining no customers. After they bring together their staff for the night to declare bankruptcy and lay offs, little do they know that around them the city is being sieged by the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, not serious, sexy, scary, horror comedy, offbeat, independent film, psychotronic
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Buck Wild (2013)
Plot Summary:
A hunting vacation goes horribly awry for 4 friends after they accidentally shoot the lease's land owner.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, not serious, sexy, slasher, horror comedy, independent film
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Head of the Family (1996)
Plot Summary:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, surreal, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, parody, gothic, spooky, spoof, feel good, suspenseful
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Werewolf (1995)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists with unplaceable accents unearth a skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. The Native Americans on the dig instantly recognize it as the remains of a werewolf, so the team leaders immediately take it to their lab and stare at it. Natalie, one of the team members, thinks it's absolutely fascinating, but Yuri siezes on greater ambitions when one of the dig assistants, who injured themself on the remains, becomes infected and turns into a werewolf in full view of hospital personnel. Yuri then conducts an experiment infecting other people in town to see if they turn into werewolves as well. When Paul arrives at the lab to assist in analyzing the remains, Yuri infects him, too. After Paul's transformation (under a week-long full moon), Natalie tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, cult classic, independent film, semi serious, surprise ending, spooky
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The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, classic horror, surprise ending, horror comedy, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, erotic
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Game of Werewolves (2011)
Plot Summary:
After 15 years, Tomas, a moderately successful writer, returns to his family's ancestral village in Galicia to receive a civic award, and write his next book. Neither of those things happens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, humorous, not serious, horror comedy, low-budget
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Curse of the Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations. She desperately wants to live a normal life, and to break free from her curse, she flees to hide in the city. When the pack aggressively hunts her down, the bouncers offer her protection and band together to battle the werewolves who want her dead... and who won't give up their wolf without a vicious fight.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, rough, splatter
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Werewolf: The Devil's Hound (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped werewolf - who’s determined to start a family of her own - sinks her claws into Kevin, leaving him with an uncontrollable desire to kill. Can his family save him before his lycan nature takes over for good?.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, spoof, parody
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Hansel and Gretel Get Baked (2013)
Plot Summary:
An intense new marijuana strain named “Black Forest” is taking Los Angeles by storm, and Gretel’s stoner boyfriend can’t get enough. But when the old woman growing the popular drug (Lara Flynn Boyle) turns out to be an evil witch, cooking and eating her wasted patrons for their youth, Gretel and her brother Hansel must save him from a gruesome death — or face the last high of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, funny, slasher, fairy tale, psychological, horror comedy, scary, offbeat
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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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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Plot Summary:
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, light
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Ghost Team One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, scary, psychological, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, mockumentary, horror spoof
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Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf tendencies surface in puberty, forcing the family to relocate to their famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, gothic, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
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Late Fee (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, humorous, satanic
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Plot Summary:
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, horror comedy
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WolfCop (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a turn for the strange...and hairy. WolfCop is the story of one cop's quest to become a better man. One transformation at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, suspense, semi serious, tense, captivating, grindhouse, retro, psychological, funny, slasher
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Cursed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, slasher, teen, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, teen horror, suspense, humorous
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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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Gremlins (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, cult classic, light, suspense, creepy, christmas horror