Best movies like Playhouse
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Plot Summary:
After years hiding in the shadows, the ancient ghosts of an old Pittsburgh theater make their presence known once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Dead on Appraisal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Real estate agent John Dante has a problem. He's stuck with a house he can't sell. Despite his best efforts, he can't seem to overcome the house's past and the macabre tales that precede it in this haunting anthology. In the first story, THE MORNING AFTER, a group of friends wake up from the party of a lifetime to find a nightmare in the form of the worst bug invasion any homeowner has ever seen. Then there's Freddie Cooper and his band, FREDDIE AND THE GOBLINS; a tale of how Freddie's band mates try to kick him out and get caught up in the young singer's growing psychosis. With his hopes of selling the house fading, John is horrified to hear the story of Robbie, a young veteran of the war in Iraq, who returns home to live with his father Brad in FATHER LAND. Something isn't right, though, as Robbie's dark secret slowly bubbles to the surface. As the house's dark past comes to life, John becomes weary and is convinced the house is cursed and unsellable.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, anthology, scary, splatter
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Pot Zombies (2005)
Plot Summary:
Radioactive weed turns people into zombies with the munchies for human flesh!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Watch If You Dare (2018)
Plot Summary:
What many are saying is the most disturbing film of 2018, Watch if you Dare revolves around a series of horrifying incidents. If you press play, look away ;).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Plot Summary:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, psychological, bleak
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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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The Taming of the Shrews (2009)
Plot Summary:
A horror-comedy of errors, Die-ner (get it?) explores the existential dilemma of a sociopath killer who runs into the unique problem of his victims rising from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, realistic
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Corpses (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense, humorous, independent film
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Ghost of Goodnight Lane (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the staff inside a renovated film studio finds a co-worker dead one morning, the pieces of a forty year puzzle add up to an angry ghost who has let the last person step inside her house. But will they ever get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, captivating, tense, humorous, psychological, scary, serious, independent film
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Slaughter (2006)
Plot Summary:
A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder leaves the house abandoned for yet another forty years. Now, six fun loving college students are hired to clean up the house for a greedy real estate mogul who plans to sell it for a large profit. They unwittingly awake the demon and only the ultimate sacrifice can save the world from a future of unspeakable evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, campy
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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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Choking Hazard (2004)
Plot Summary:
When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal battle. Alternately sickening and silly, this gruesomely hilarious Czech horror flick co-stars Jan Dolansky, Eva Nadazdyova, Anna Fialkova and Eva Janouskova.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, serious, slasher
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Paranormal Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new home.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, spoof, psychotronic, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, horror spoof
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The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Retardead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As the ravenous monsters overrun the town, Hannigan tries to convince Stern's faithful assistant to reveal how to foil the crazed doctor's evil scheme.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, horror comedy, creepy, ridiculous
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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Stupid Teenagers Must Die! (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the 1980's and a group of typical horror movie high school kids are getting together to hold a séance in a haunted house. Naturally, people start dying preposterously bloody deaths, girls are getting naked for no apparent reason and people walk into pitch black rooms and say things like "Is someone in here?" Will any of these poor, hapless kids survive? Or will their bodies fill the house with blood and...well, you know!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, slasher, scary, humorous, not serious, brutal, mockbuster, spoof, offbeat, independent film
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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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Parts of the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, scary, slasher, campy
Similar in 82%
The Hazing (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, bloody, horror comedy, independent film, slasher, serious, splatter
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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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Last Rites of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
In an imagined reality where zombies coexist with ordinary mortal folk, the undead are considered second-class citizens. Angela finds this out the hard way when she's shot by her boyfriend and must learn to adjust to her new zombie lifestyle. She tempers her hunger for human flesh with Zombies Anonymous meetings and tries to pass for living in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, not serious, suspense, mockbuster, scary, independent film, psychotronic, horror comedy, offbeat
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Evil - In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on the end of the First "Kako" movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and shoot random moving targets (zombie or not). In the meantime we take small flashbacks into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has happened as well and we learned about how they faced them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, hilarious, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful
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The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, humorous, epic, cult film
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Blood Moon Rising (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Devil's daughter rises from the grave bringing with her zombies, werewolves, vampires and the armies of Hell to destroy Earth. Mankind's only salvation is a young hippie girl and a comic book geek Darrel.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, suspense, not serious, spoof, low-budget, cult film
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Dead and Gone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A struggling actor moves his comatose wife to their isolated cabin, where he begins to have disturbing interactions with the unconscious woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, exciting, semi serious, suspense, offbeat, realistic, independent film, campy
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Hide and Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspense, independent film, biting, campy
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The Walking Deceased (2015)
Plot Summary:
THE WALKING DECEASED is the Scary Movie of the zombie genre, ripping on the biggest and best of zombie pop-culture, arguably the most crazed genre in the world. The story follows a group of survivors from all walks of the apocalypse – an idiotic Sheriff with definite coma-induced brain damage, his hardass son and a hobo with only a crossbow to stave off the walking dead, four squabbling friends forced to survive this zombieland together, and a lonely zombie who just needs love to fully regain his warm body – who leave their once-safe mall hideout in search of the rumored Safe Haven Ranch, a refuge untouched by the zombie virus that has ravaged humanity. But despite the comforting name, they discover that this sanctuary may not be as welcoming as advertised.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, absurd, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Aaah! Zombies!! (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brain freeze has never been so bad once you’ve tasted Ale Cream, as four friends inadvertently eat some radioactive ice-cream, turning them into zombies. Only problem is they don’t see themselves as the undead, but as super soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, suspense, humorous, suspenseful, tense, horror comedy, scary, semi serious, bizarre
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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it's up to the janitor to take it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, offbeat, splatter, bizarre