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Plot Summary:
Twelve daughters are abandoned by their parents, who are too poor to educate so many children. The twelve daughters are rescued by a "Yak" woman who promises to take care about them as her own daughters. She deceived them and force them to drink a potion that transform the young girls into beautiful maidens.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 126 min
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Demonic Beauty (2002)
Plot Summary:
Back to its origin where her story has never been clearly narrated, Kra Sue is a common name calling any lady ghost living on eating waste and flesh - in fresh and bloody raw. Her distinct capability is to take her own head off the body, and fly with bright light shining from her digestive organs to hunt for fresh preys.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
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Flames of Royal Love (1991)
Plot Summary:
In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rumbustious woman with an obstinate and stubborn mind. They both try to kill each other, but the queen is thrown into the dungeons.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: non-linear, dark comedy, modern day adaptation, campy
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Three-Head Monster (1988)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the tale of a one thousand year old living Ginseng and initially about the attempts to capture it. But the thousand year old living root is nearly impossible to corral. He is finally captured by a weird group of ninja like fighters led by Taiwanese beauty, Cynthia Khan. However, the group is followed by a small boy who has befriended the Ginseng King and needs him to save his mother. The gang takes Ginseng to an evil, ogreish three headed monster who intends to eat him in order to live forever. It turns out that Khan's warrior woman is an heiress and is under duress since triple dome is holding her mother hostage. She has a change of heart and decides to aid the young boy in destroying three heads and saving Ginseng. But is it already too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 85 min
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Jungle Freaks (1969)
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Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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The Chanting 3 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of youngsters is on a mission to Ujung Sedo, to find their missing friends in a haunting jungle. Along the way, they met Samantha who's in a personal mission to the a mystical village. They went across the dark woods, a deafening fog, and a deadly cave where strange events followed them. Every twist is connected to Samantha who has a wicked curse to summon a she-devil called Kuntilanak. The old witch who lives in the village may be the only one who can stop the curse. But, that's not her plan at all.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
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Hookers in a Haunted House (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oh, please. Look at the title. Look at it. You need more synopsis than that? Just... just don't speak to me, okay? I'm disappointed in you. So very disappointed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, slasher, sex comedy, independent film, horror spoof, cult film
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Isle of the Damned (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Antonello Giallo's follow up to the notorious Pleasures of the Damned, private investigator Jack Steele is hired by a mysterious treasure hunter to help find the lost treasure of Marco Polo. Along for the trip is Jack's adopted son, Billy. Their search brings them to an island off the coast of Argentina... and into the clutches of a primitive cannibal tribe, the Yamma Yamma. Alexis Kinkaid, a mysterious recluse who has made his home on the island amongst the cannibals, may hold the key to unlocking the island's secret... if they don't end up in the belly of a savage first! Isle of the Damned, originally released in Italy in 1980, brought Giallo under fire yet again by the Italian government, who were outraged by the shocking and real scenes of primitive tribal rituals and cannibalism portrayed in the film. The film has been long out of print, but is presented here in a digitally remastered form.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Skeleton Key (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror spoof
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Majin the Monster of Terror (1966)
Plot Summary:
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, grindhouse, psychotronic, natural horror, cult film
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Bread And Circus (2003)
Plot Summary:
One man's courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, slasher, absurd, splatter, allegory, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, weird
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There's Something in The Pillaga (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Pilliga Yowie, - or 'Jingra' - has haunted the Australian outback for centuries, stalking a remote part of New South Wales, where men seldom dare tread, content to keep to itself... until now. Blokish truck driver Jay and his cameraman buddy Dylan journey into the PIlliga National Park with Liz and Tammy, two good time girls they meet in a pub. Things take a sinister turn when a local legend comes out to play - complete with big teeth, sharp claws and a craving for human flesh!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing
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The Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
Plot Summary:
A fun-filled trip to Thailand turns out to be a deadly one for four best friends when they accidentally killed the sister of a local sorcerer. When one of them mysteriously died upon returning the remaining trio discovers that a curse has been cast upon them. They must turn to a Thai magician for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, transgressive
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Witchcraft II: The Temptress (1989)
Plot Summary:
Witch from the first Witchcraft movie stalks the now teenage child. She attempts to kill his friends in order to slowly corrupt him to Satan. However the boy is able to defeat the evil Satanic witch, and not enter into Evil with her.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Damned on earth (2014)
Plot Summary:
The ordinary Hell official Amon is assigned with a strange task by Luzifer: Together with the chaotic, sex-crazed Samsaveel, he is in charge of stopping Belial, Prince of Hell, who's gone out of control. In order to claim the thrones of Heaven and Hell, he uses a female body as a host, outwits Amon and Samsaveel and kills an angel. With this murder, he sparks a terrible war, because the forces of Heaven and Hell were supposed to balance good and evil on Earth. For centuries, they never raised a hand against each other. Until now.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Scream Queen Hot Tub Party (1991)
Plot Summary:
Five of Hollywood's leading scream queens get together in a creepy mansion and decide to get in the hot tub (as true scream queens would). They talk in the tub and exchange secrets on the do's and don'ts of being a scream queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, slasher, sex comedy, grindhouse, queer horror, psychotronic, erotic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody, horror spoof
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Shaitan's Warrior (2006)
Plot Summary:
Trouble usually starts when the power falls into the wrong hands. That's how the book that hides an ancient evil fell to Stanislav. It does not matter whether Stanislav is a nice guy who helps old ladies cross the street, a psychopath, nerd, or a blood-thirsty young man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Serbia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: splatter, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, surprise ending, teen horror
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Ice from the Sun (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
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Death Karate in Torremolinos (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses underwater ninja zombies to kidnap five women who had recently lost their virginity for human sacrifices. Jess, a Catholic surfer who has commited to remain chaste until he's 24, tries to rescue his girlfriend, one of the kidnapped girls, along with his friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, scary, captivating, horror comedy, psychedelic, splatter, independent film, campy
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Under ConTroll (2019)
Plot Summary:
Upcoming horror comedy directed by Eric Hordes.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Annabelle Sethupathi (2021)
Plot Summary:
A scary journey begins when a small-time thief, Rudra, enters a haunted castle and gets pulled into the mystery of its mistress — Annabelle Sethupathi.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Ouija Craft (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two witches use a Ouija board to resurrect their friend after she dies in a tragic accident.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
Plot Summary:
In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
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Nightmare Sisters (1988)
Plot Summary:
Melody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can't get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in the girls becoming possessed and turning into sex starved vamps. Will the geek hero guys be able to stop the horrible (?) possession?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, horror comedy, slasher, splatter, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Witching & Bitching (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this heist film turned horror fest, director Álex de la Iglesia's love of mayhem is on full display as a gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and in need of a sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, satirical, light, horror comedy, exciting, surreal, dark comedy, cult classic, psychological
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Leprechaun Returns (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, semi serious, bloody, suspenseful, cult horror, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Troll (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy (Jenny Beck), thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, funny, retro, humorous, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious
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Night of the Demons (1988)
Plot Summary:
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspenseful, grindhouse, sexy, demonic, splatter, creepy, psychological, psychotronic
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Dark Shadows (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 277000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, humorous, gothic horror, parody, dark, black comedy, dark comedy, scary, funny
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, black comedy, offbeat, dark comedy, horror comedy, scary, suspense, entertaining, gothic