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Plot Summary:
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tag along girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, funny, suspense, satanic, cult horror, horror musical, surprise ending, spoof, scary
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Monster Dog (1984)
Plot Summary:
A (dubbed) Alice Cooper stars as Victor Raven, a famous rock star, who returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing his presence is responsible for the return of a monstrous hound that killed folks when he was kid, the locals decide to do something violent about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Music
Country: Spain, USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, retro, suspense, grindhouse, horror musical, psychotronic, independent film
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Boardinghouse (1982)
Plot Summary:
Resembling a cross between "The Amityville Horror" and a Playboy Playmates video, this film tells the terrifying tale of a cheesy video special effect that stalks bikini-clad women. In between scenes of them playfully splashing each other and wrestling with each other's bathing suit tops, they're murdered and/or terrorized by horrific hallucinations. These hallucinations include seeing blood in the shower stalls (while they're trying to lather up), having giant monsters jump out of the hall closet, and seeing their faces temporarily turn into rubber halloween masks.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody
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Wild Zero (1999)
Plot Summary:
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, experimental, avant garde
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Uncle Peckerhead (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, humorous, captivating, queer horror, bleak, disturbing, funny, perverse, weird
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Shock 'Em Dead (1991)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, retro, slasher, horror musical, independent film, scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton High School, looking for blood. She chooses as her escort in world of the living Alex, an average depressed student with dreams of one day becoming a doctor. As Mary Lou begins to get back into form, the body count starts climbing and the graduating class of Hamilton High is once again smaller than expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, humorous, splatter, psychotronic, retro, suspense, dark, twist ending, suspenseful
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Blood Beach (1980)
Plot Summary:
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, stylized, natural horror, spoof
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Cannibal Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, sexy, suspense, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous
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Rocktober Blood (1984)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, bloody, satanic, horror musical, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, weird
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Hard Rock Zombies (1984)
Plot Summary:
A hard rock band travels to the tiny and remote town of Grand Guignol to perform. Peopled by hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler, the town is a strange place but that doesn't stop the band's lead singer from falling in love with a local girl named Cassie. After Nazi sex perverts kill the band to satisfy their lusts.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, mockbuster, horror comedy, horror musical, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Black Roses (1988)
Plot Summary:
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satanic, horror musical, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, demonic, horror comedy, spooky
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Slaughterhouse Rock (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man visits Alcatraz prison after having dreams about all the people who died there. When he gets there, his brother is possessed by an envil cannibal demon. The ghost of a female heavy metal singer who was killed there tries to help the man fight the monster.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, horror comedy, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, spooky
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Fubar (2002)
Plot Summary:
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, funny, witty, cult classic, independent film, controversial, offbeat, realistic
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Bad Biology (2008)
Plot Summary:
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, rough, erotic, sexy, controversial, psychological, suspense, mystic
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Killer Party (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately a vengeful spirit decides to take the killer epithet literally. With a special appearance by '80s hair metal titans White Sister!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, scary, suspenseful, captivating, rough, slasher, retro, bloody, suspense, splatter
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Deathgasm (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: satanic, splatter, dark comedy, horror comedy, atmospheric, brutal, scary, lyrical, visually appealing, psychological
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Suck (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA after Jennifer is turned into a vampire by Queeny. Meanwhile, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark named Eddie Van Helsing quickly chases them down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cynical, parody, horror comedy, suspense, scary, black comedy, gothic, horror musical, offbeat, witty
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" the pair soon find themselves having to confront their murderous past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, horror comedy
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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
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Return to Horror High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spoof, slasher, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, independent film, rough
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Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain, a group of American university students moves into a beautiful cottage, surrounded by a lush forest and a majestic lake They are here to learn about the rituals of the ancient Druids and other Celtic legends. But in the remains of an abandoned copper mine, lives the ancestors of an incestuous clan of cannibals. Stalked by a hulking, disfigured mutant, the students and their chaperone are in for the most harrowing time of their young lives. And keeping their heads on their necks will become their main concern.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, slasher, dark, spooky, serious, sexual, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Spookies (1986)
Plot Summary:
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, anthology, psychological, funny, retro
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976-EVIL (1988)
Plot Summary:
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, satanic, suspenseful, cult classic, splatter, homoerotic, horror comedy, cult horror
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The Rocker (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rob "Fish" Fishman is the drummer in '80s hair metal band Vesuvius. He's unceremoniously booted as the group signs a big record deal, is out of the music world for 20 years - and then receives a second chance with his nephew's band.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, teen, light, entertaining, not serious, hilarious, slang, cute
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Plot Summary:
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, spoof, funny, humorous, cult classic, satirical, hilarious, cynical, ironic
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Trick or Treat (1986)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is your average 80's metal head teen. Now he's obsessed with his heavy-metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr who is killed in a hotel fire. Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which when played backwards brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll... it's life and death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, cult classic, retro, sexy, satanic, homoerotic, horror comedy, classic horror
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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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Waxwork (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicous. What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, classic horror, psychological, funny
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, funny, disturbing, humorous, gothic, scary, horror comedy
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Evil Dead II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, dark comedy, slasher, bloody, black comedy, creepy, horror comedy, lovecraft, funny