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Plot Summary:
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, bleak, splatter, cult film
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Scarecrow Slayer (2003)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman is killed during a fraternity prank and is resurrected as a demonic scarecrow.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, tense, disturbing, cult film
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Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009)
Plot Summary:
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, independent film
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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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Legion of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful California desert when they're kidnapped by the notorious Psycho Mike, The Kern River Killer. Securing their escape through hilarious means and the aid of an old friend they soon stumble into a small desert town where unbeknownst to them a mysterious tall Blond Man and his sadistic henchmen are killing people to create a Legion of the dead. Here's where it gets tricky. William falls in love with Geena, the beautiful waitress at the local restaurant and Luke spins out of control hormonally. The restaurant is suddenly attacked by the LEGION and the tall Blond Man gives an ultimatum to hand over Geena within two hours or he will personally come in to get her. What is the mysterious secret that Geena and the Blond Man share? The clock ticks as the ultimatum draws near. The fight against evil has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, perverse, scary, slasher, splatter
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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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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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Mr. Jingles (2006)
Plot Summary:
An innocent man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He suffered for years in prison and finally escaped to take his revenge on the guilty, and their families. That terrifying night four families had fallen victim to this new embodiment of evil. Angie Randal is the exception to the rule. She's the only one to survive the clown named Mr. JIngles. Sadly, Angie did not escape unharmed. Having been the only witness to these unimaginable crimes, Angie was soon a ward of the state psychiatric hospital. Our story begins on the day Angie Randal moves back home, the 7th anniversary of that horrible night. She is ready to move on with her life, living with her Aunt Helen and her cousins Heidi and Dylan. But there's a certain someone who has been waiting a long time to give her his own special homecoming and finish what he started!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, funny, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, scary, tense, weird
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Nightmare Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a mysterious demonic African mask in the mail, Ellen Morris is attacked by a "being" she refers to as THE NIGHTMARE MAN. Her doctors and husband, William believe Ellen is a paranoid schizophrenic and needs to spend some quality time at a mental facility for further examination.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, psychotronic, slasher horror
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The Janitor (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lionel is a custodian that longs for more. Bombarded with daily disrespect and insults from his co-workers, Lionel sets on a path of revenge and begins to brutally murder everyone in his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, humorous, suspenseful, independent film, slasher, suspense, realistic, semi serious, bizarre
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Doll Graveyard (2005)
Plot Summary:
It's 1905 when 12 year old Sophia plays all by herself in her big, creepy house with only four handmade dolls as friends. When her abusive father has finally had enough, he forces her to bury them in the backyard. But, after she "slips" and breaks her neck, dad buries her right along with the dolls. 100 years later, the Fillbrook family moves into the very same house.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, controversial, offbeat, cult film
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Dark Harvest (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers go to the family farm of one of them only to be attacked by a killer scarecrow.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, queer horror, independent film
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Axeman at Cutter's Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nine vacationing twenty-somethings are hunted by an axe-wielding local legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, suspense
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The Horror Show (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Plot Summary:
Gore specialist H.G. Lewis' gruesome tale of an artist who becomes a success after using human blood in his paintings.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, splatter, suspense, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Blood Dolls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexy, demonic, independent film, offbeat, black comedy
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Stitches (2012)
Plot Summary:
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Ireland, Sweden, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, horror comedy, serious, dark comedy, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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Skinned Deep (2004)
Plot Summary:
The horror film Skinned Deep begins when a family suffers a flat tire on a barren stretch of road with only a diner dotting the landscape. They meet Granny, the seemingly nice old woman who runs the establishment, but they soon find that she is the leader of a deranged clan. The family is slain, with the exception of their teenage daughter, Tina whom one of the sons in the family, Brain (a boy with an externalized brain much larger than his head), takes a romantic interest in. Soon a group of bikers show up, forcing the girl to figure out which group of crazies she should throw in with in order to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, serious, independent film, weird, campy
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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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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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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Frightmare (1983)
Plot Summary:
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter, crying
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The Convent (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, suspenseful, slasher, harsh, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, serious, independent film
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All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Plot Summary:
When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Maddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller — a loner who claims to practice the dark arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. Remake of their own 2001 feature film.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, queer horror, independent film, erotic, psychological, retro, grindhouse
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Uncle Sam (1996)
Plot Summary:
Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag over his burial site.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, political, dark, horror comedy, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak, retro, folk tale, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Lumberjack Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with "Fun Under the Son", a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, parody, horror comedy, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sexy
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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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Hatchet (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, rough, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending