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Plot Summary:
Tied up, blindfolded, and left in the woods in nothing but their underwear as part of a Hell Week initiation, six college-aged pledges are tasked with setting up camp. Broken up into two teams, boys versus girls, they must complete a number of extreme hazing rituals set up by their hosts - who happen to be watching their every move through camera-equipped glasses. Both hazers and hazees become victims when a mysterious force that haunts the forest begins to prey upon the participants one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher
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ARBOR DAZE (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy but deluded environmentalist opens a secluded woodland retreat, four dentists get much more than a free and relaxing weekend getaway. Something is amiss at Camp Arbor Diem this Arbor Day weekend as campers from all walks of life begin to disappear. Who is behind these strange occurrences? Could it be the spirit of the woods? And can the dentists figure it all out before death comes calling for them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Monstrosity (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man, whose girlfriend was killed by street thugs, builds a Golem which is then programmed to go out and kill the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 79%
Witch Academy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Members of an exclusive college sorority (where sadomasochism seems to rule the day) seek twisted new ways to humiliate a new pledge named Leslie Perkins, who they feel will never, ever fit in since she's something of a nerd and a prude. However the Devil has other plans and helps transform Leslie into a bodacious babe smokin' as all Hell. Only why is the Devil helping Leslie? You just got to know he has ulterior motives in mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, slasher horror, creepy, slasher
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Killer Nerd (1991)
Plot Summary:
A nerd is harassed by punks, and is the object of ridicule at work. Enamoured by a co-worker, he buys a tape series on how to be cool, summons up his nerve, and goes to the co-worker's house, only to find her in the clutches of another co-worker. Dejected, he goes out on the town and parties with some babes, but when their friends, who turn out to be the same punks that harassed him earlier, trash him again something snaps, and the irritants in his life begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, art house, independent film
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Phantom Brother (1988)
Plot Summary:
A teenager is left orphaned by a car crash that wipes out his entire family; he is subsequently haunted by his dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Motor Home Massacre (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven young friends climb aboard a vintage RV headed for a fun-filled weekend in the woods when they encounter a night vision goggled, machete-wielding psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, suspense, slasher horror
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Beauty Queen Butcher (1991)
Plot Summary:
Phyllis Loden is an overweight shy nerd who is relentlessly picked on by the more popular girls. This year's Slivis Slough Queen Beauty Pageant is fast approaching and Muffy Fairlane is a lock to win. However, Muffy doesn't want any of her friends to come in last so she enters Phyllis in the pageant. The plan works and also provides the girls with some opportunities to embarrass Phyllis in front of the whole school. As if that isn't bad enough Elizabeth McKay thinks she could've won it all if it wasn't for her allergic reaction the Phyllis' cat. So the girls decide to dispose of the feline. That turns out to be the final straw which sends Phyllis on a murderous rampage to eliminate the beauty queens one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Pool Party Massacre (2017)
Plot Summary:
What started out as a relaxing summer day by the pool for a group of high maintenance young socialites quickly becomes a nightmare when an unknown killer begins stalking and murdering them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, retro
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The Brotherhood VI: Initiation (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a group of sexy, young pledges arrive at a secluded cabin for their initiation into the Gamma Kappa fraternity, they're met by a blood-thirsty lumberjack, who won't stop until every one of them is dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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The Chainsaw Sally Show (2010)
Plot Summary:
Follows the bloody misadventures of Chainsaw Sally and her brother Ruby in the small town of Porterville. Divided into 11 episodes running 20 minutes apiece.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 267 min
Plot tags: slasher, absurd, splatter, sitcom, cult film
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She Came From the Woods (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleash a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher horror, slasher
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Bring It On: Cheer Or Die (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a cheer squad practices their routines on Halloween weekend in an abandoned school, they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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He Lives By Night (1982)
Plot Summary:
He Lives By Night is hard to describe. It's a cocktail of plot wackiness including a romance-comedy subplot involving a cute, sultry-voiced overnight deejay and a fat HK police captain, surprisingly stylish Argento-inspired kills, and an obsessed transvestite serial slasher/strangler all smashed into the same 1 hr 26 min window.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Devil's Restaurant (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restaurant manager in New York City has made a deal with a demonic entity in order to bolster his business. What could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Backlot Murders (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Backlot Murders is a campy horror film starring Jaime Anstead, Priscilla Barnes, Charles Fleischer and Corey Haim. A killer in an Elvis mask murders the cast and crew of a rock band video shoot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1971. Jennifer, a troubled actress, is institutionalized following psychotic visions on the set of her latest film. Upon her release, Jennifer becomes stranded in the desert only to be rescued by a colorful band of nomadic rebels. Helpless and alone, Jennifer has no choice but to follow them and is subtly but swiftly introduced into their family. That night, a local desert dweller tells them of an abandoned house and warns them to stay away. The family ignores the warning and uses the house as their latest crash pad. Jennifer becomes further plagued by sinister visions that reduce her ability to separate reality from fantasy. Soon members of the family are mysteriously killed one by one in the legend known as the "Slaughterhouse Of the Rising Sun".
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
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Slumber Party Slaughter Party 2 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Four years after a series of brutal murders took place, a psychotic killer returns to wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Sigma Die! (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspense, semi serious, humorous, independent film
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Crazy Bitches (2014)
Plot Summary:
7 girls and 1 fab gay guy plan a getaway to a remote ranch for a week of gossip and grub. They start off where they always do, old rivalries in place, extreme vanity covering great insecurities, but with a true love for each other underneath the bickering, sniping and sassing. A number of drinks into night one and a dark secret is revealed. The house they rented is the site of a mass murder of teenage girls 15 years earlier. Blood still stains the floors under replacement carpets. The killer still runs free. The girls take it for what it seems - a fun story for a rainy night by a roaring fire. But after one of them disappears and is discovered dead, the story doesn't seem so fun anymore. 1 by 1, they die, killed by their own vanity. The fun-filled week turns into a race against death. Who will make it out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher, horror comedy
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Crazy Lake (2016)
Plot Summary:
Group of coeds looking for fun at cabin on the lake and find the cabin wasn't always used for rest and relaxation.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, disturbing, funny, brutal, suspenseful, teen horror, slasher horror
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HauntedWeen (1991)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago a deadly accident forced Eddie Burber from his home. Since Eddie was younger he wanted to be part of the family business "The Burber Haunted House." A note is placed on the local Fraternity giving permission to use the old house as a fund-raiser. While the students prepare the house, they soon are hunted down and placed in the Haunted House for amusement. One thing is for sure. Nobody knows it really happening - People are dying, and people are laughing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film
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ThanXgiving (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of film students travel deep into the woods to make a movie, thinking that they've found the perfect location in the form of an abandoned campground.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, independent film, slasher horror, student film
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The Mean One (2022)
Plot Summary:
In a sleepy mountain town, Cindy witnesses the murder of her parents by a blood-thirsty green figure in a red Santa suit. Twenty years later, the Christmas-hating monster begins to terrorize the town once more. Cindy finds new purpose in stopping the creature and saving the holiday.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, parody, slasher, slasher horror
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Pelt (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sudden, gory death hides behind every bush. When beautiful Jennifer and her friends embark on a backpacking excursion deep into the woods, they come chest to chest with an evil as old as the trees. Listen...above the crackling of the campfire...is that the sound of a twig snapping or your best girlfriend's neck? The interlopers discover that when the locals warn you not to trespass, it's a warning you should heed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexy, realistic, independent film
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Scarecrow Gone Wild (2004)
Plot Summary:
College mischief spins out of control unleashing a horrifying scarecrow who terrorizes a resort town during Spring Break.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, campy
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Pledge Night (1988)
Plot Summary:
In order to become a member of a fraternity, the applicants have to go through initiation rituals to show their loyalty. Way back in the 1960s, someone played a nasty trick on the student Sidney Scheider: He had to take a bath in a tub filled with cornflakes and coffee grounds, vinegar and even more disgusting substances. Nothing unusual so far but someone had replaced the water with pure acid. Sidney was seriously wounded and died a horrible death. This year Acid Sid returns with a vengeance, killing everyone who comes his way. One by one is slaughtered and in the college hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, splatter, crying, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, horror comedy, corny, cult film
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Hack! (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seven college students are picked to travel to a private island owned by the reclusive Vincent King and his film-obsessed wife Mary Shelley to study island wildlife. But is isn't long when a mysterious killer begins killing the students one-by-one, and modeling them after gory murder scenes from numerous horror films.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, semi serious, scary, captivating, suspense, grindhouse, queer horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous
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Camp Slaughter (2005)
Plot Summary:
While searching for a way out of the woods, a group of lost friends stumble upon Camp Hiawatha and take up with the teens who are bunking there. But the party's over when they discover that this camp is literally stuck in a time warp -- 1981, to be exact -- and that they're living the same horrible day over and over. Can they escape the wrath of a killer who's silently stalking the campers and their terrified counselors?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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Billy Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four little league teammates reunite after fifteen years to solve the mystery behind a horrible killing from their childhood. A mysterious letter sends the gang on a mission to unearth the grave of their old coach and prove that their incarcerated friend is innocent. Little do they know the real killer is stalking them and hungry for their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror comedy, dark drama
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Slaughterhouse (1987)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, splatter, horror comedy, funny, cult horror