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Plot Summary:
Archie works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile accident, and the bodies are taken to his uncle's mortuary. Archie is pulling a late night at the mortuary when he sees a storm brewing. Lighting strikes! They're alive! The preppie bullies continue to torment him...as zombies!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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Cemetery Sisters (1987)
Plot Summary:
Joan and Leslie want to raise the money to buy their own cemetery. They decide to do so by marrying men and killing them for their money.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 77%
Gut Instincts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gut Instincts contains four horrific little tales. Call Me is about a man who thinks a night of passion is in store, but when he gets home, what awaits him is far from passion. In Patterson Road, a group of teens ventures to a wooded area rumored to have a hidden cemetery. They should have been careful what they asked for because in this case, that's exactly what they got. Speaking Ill of the Dead has a basic theme that karma is a bitch. And Trip has Terra, a struggling alcoholic looking for anything to decrease her stress. In all of these tales, characters had a bad feeling, a gut instinct, about what they were doing, but they didn't listen and paid the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, anthology, independent film
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Killing Spree (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film
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The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
Plot Summary:
A group of six friends are out in the rural south on a deer hunt (even though one of the six is blind), when they start hearing strange noises coming from the woods. An investigation of the sounds leads them to an old Confederate graveyard, which suddenly begins sprouting Rebel zombies. Like the living dead in every other movie, these zombies are hungry for human flesh, and soon set to chowing down on the hapless hunters.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Frozen Scream (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc and kill people.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, terrifying, sinister, hood
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Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Plot Summary:
An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of savage hoodlums, and three sisters do their best to stay alive and survive this harrowing ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of zombies that are used by the government to fight in a major war in the near future get launched into space. The space shuttle gets caught in a time warp and returns to Earth in the present day. Naturally, the zombies get loose and terrorize a motley assortment of folks who are trapped inside a high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
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Mortuary (1982)
Plot Summary:
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul and both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, cult film
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The Child (1977)
Plot Summary:
A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spooky, terrifying, independent film, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
The Video Dead (1987)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural TV is mistakenly delivered to a suburban family instead of a research lab. After the family mysteriously turn up dead, a new family moves in and finds the TV hidden in the basement. Soon they discover the TV is actually a gateway for the undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, weird
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The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird
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FleshEater (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet (2005)
Plot Summary:
When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, anthology, detective, weird
Similar in 87%
Bloodeaters (1980)
Plot Summary:
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
Similar in 77%
Mimesis (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 76%
Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
Plot Summary:
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Scary or Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
The creation of filmmaker Michael Emanuel, SCARY OR DIE tells five interwoven horror stories that take place in and around the “City of Angles”. A flesh-eating clown desperately trying to protect the person he craves the most; a dirty cop and a hit gone wrong with a vengeful Necromancer; a beautiful but mysterious woman and a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places; a gruesome, blood-splattered uprising of illegal Mexican zombies; and a Cajun conjurer grandfather whose gift of never-ending love goes terribly awry…SCARY OR DIE is a unique experience in horror filmmaking certain to fulfill all your twisted horror film experience needs.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, serious, psychological, brutal, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film
Similar in 84%
Fear No Evil (1981)
Plot Summary:
High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two archangels in human form (as women) take him on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, disturbing, slasher, satanic, homoerotic, informative, queer horror, independent film
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Trailer Park of Terror (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Imperium Comics series, Trailer Park of Terror. Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, scary, offbeat, psychotronic
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Cemetery of Terror (1985)
Plot Summary:
A professor suspects that a vicious killer may have discovered a way to return from the grave and continue his violent spree. His fears are proved true when a group of teenagers decide to pull a Halloween prank by stealing the killer's body from the morgue. When the teens recite an incantation from an old magic book over the corpse, it begins to come back to life, along with all of the bodies from the nearby cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, suspense, rough, captivating, scary, bloody, gothic horror, splatter, grindhouse
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Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, scary, slasher, road movie, sexy, melancholic, twist ending, rough, suspenseful
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Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
Plot Summary:
Colonel Reynolds and his group of government scientists continue their work on re-animating the dead for military use. His son Curt uses a stolen security pass to sneak in with his thrill-seeking girlfriend Julie, with shocking, deadly results!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, bloody, classic horror, splatter, horror comedy, funny, atmospheric, slasher, apocalyptic, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Flight of the Living Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, scenic, horror comedy, classic horror, fast
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Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the professor. Out of the blue, the zombies attack them and they seek shelter in the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, bloody, slasher, disturbing, cult classic, atmospheric
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
Plot Summary:
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh after government officials conduct pest control experiments using subsonic waves in the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, detective, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, depressing, bloody, gothic horror
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, creepy, rough, suspenseful, bloody, apocalyptic, cult classic, tense, brutal
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Venom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Venom is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars. Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana - Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), Jonathan Jackson (Tuck Everlasting) and Meagan Good (Roll Bounce) are among a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they find is an evil force more deadly than anyone could have imagined ... now they are running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, rough, exciting, bloody, grindhouse, teen horror, anime, southern gothic
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Zombie (1979)
Plot Summary:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, slasher, splatter, atmospheric, gothic, brutal, creepy