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Plot Summary:
This is the tale of a crazed family of weirdos led by Crawldaddy who like to kill people and remove their skin.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like Skinned Alive (1990):
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Trippin' (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of three friends head to a cabin in the woods for the weekend. On their way they discover an arm in the road, blood coming from something wrapped in the back of a truck, and other strange things that unfold before their eyes. They plan on a weekend of partying, boozing, drugs and sex. Of course there is a campfire tale of a killer in the woods, the kids get split up, and the blood starts to flow.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: China, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, underground film, independent film
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Shock Value (2014)
Plot Summary:
Struggling 'B' movie Director blackmails a serial killer to be the star of his next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, horror comedy
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The Happy House (2013)
Plot Summary:
Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it's one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they've wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house's batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily rare butterfly, the world's best blueberry muffins, a .44 Magnum, a demented serial killer, and one very strict rulebook.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, scary, mumblecore, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
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Scream Bloody Murder (2003)
Plot Summary:
In this horror spoof, the girls from Cherry Mount Academy are on their way to a dance at a nearby all-boys school when the van they're riding in breaks down. With no other choice but to spend the night at their tow truck driver's junkyard, the girls soon find themselves at the mercy of a cold-blooded killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, parody, humorous, not serious, queer horror, independent film, surprise ending, slasher horror, horror spoof
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Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, realistic, horror comedy, scary, independent film, horror spoof, campy
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Woodchipper Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jon, Tom, and Denise accidently kill their senile old Aunt while she's looking after them while their father is away on business. Not sure what to do, they decide to dispose of the body in the rented woodchipper in the backyard. But more trouble comes a-knocking when their cousin Kim, their Aunt's son, shows up unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher horror
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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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Silent But Deadly (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Capper is an unconventional and mysterious serial killer who takes aim at a Hollywood film set, by unleashing his own brand of retribution on the cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, erotic, sexy, suspense, silent, realistic
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Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 a group of young, horny, out of control Christians are spending a fun filled weekend at the mountain lakeside Happy Day Bible Camp. One by one these youthful sinners pay a BLOODY penance for their misdeeds. Flash forward 7 years, when another youth group of Bible toters return, lead by "Father Richard Cummings" (Reggie Bannister), "Sister Mary Chopper," (Tim Sullivan) goes bloody murder after the camp - emphasis on CAMP - with stand out performances by folks like Gigi Bannister, Jessica Sonneborn, Troy Guthrie, Deborah Venegas, Jay Fields, and Jeff Dylan Graham. In the end, Bannister and Troup must face down the a transvestite serial killing nun in a fight to the death, and call upon the higher graces of the infamous Ron Jeremy as "Jesus" guide them through! A hilarious campy equal opportunity offensive film that will have you DIE laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, spoof, scary, realistic
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Holla II (2013)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping with her life at the hands of her mentally ill sister Veronica, Monica, with the help of her Mother, Marion, has taken great measures to ensure her safety, including changing her face and relocating to the South. Six years has past and now she finally believes she is safe from Veronica. Little does she know that death and betrayal still await her and her friends on the eve of her wedding at a southern plantation house rumored to be haunted by 13 murdered slaves. This time no one is safe and everyone is a suspect as killing becomes addictive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, teen horror, campy
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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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Death by Engagement (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to track down a vicious serial killer bent on reclaiming his mother's family heirloom wedding ring as it passes from bride to bride with the killer always one step behind, and the detectives one step behind the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic, splatter
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Sorority Party Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone missing in this sleepy fishing town each year for the last twenty years. When a body finally emerges on the lake and suspects literally crawl out of the hills, the two lawmen realize they’re being toyed with and to make things worse, the killer seems to have set his eyes on a group of sorority girls who are not only isolated by the lake, but have their own nefarious plans in mind. Outnumbered and out of options, the two lawmen must solve the mystery of the missing girls or suffer the same fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, humorous, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, horror comedy, realistic, detective
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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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Triloquist (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, controversial, dark comedy, horror comedy, scary, slasher
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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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Pervert! (2005)
Plot Summary:
While visiting his Bible-thumping yet lecherous father in the desert, randy college student James (Sean Andrews) tries everything he can to hook up with the local curvaceous cuties, but his sex quest stalls when a bloodthirsty killer targets every buxom beauty in sight. Porn star and onetime California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey stars in this lusty nod to 1960s exploitation films.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, slasher, semi serious, sexy, rough, suspense, grindhouse, mockbuster, horror comedy
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Head of the Family (1996)
Plot Summary:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, surreal, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher
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Among Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
A twisted horror about a dinner party gone wrong. Set against an 80s backdrop, the good time takes a dark turn when one in the group hijacks the evening in an attempt to help the others come clean about their secret betrayals against one another–and is willing to cut through the bone in order to expose the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, erotic, slasher, dark drama, queer horror, scary, realistic, independent film
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You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Monroe (Monroe Mann) and Hilary (Crystal Arnette) have discovered that they have inherited a lake house and to make things even better, the famous horror author Stephen King is rumoured to live somewhere nearby. They decide to take their friends down to the lake house to check things out, only to find immediate resistance from all of the locals, who insist that King doesn't live in the area. Despite being completely unwelcome, they decide to stay and soon find that people are being killed one by one in a manner similar to several deaths in various Stephen King stories.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, mockbuster, horror comedy, realistic, independent film, horror spoof
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Psychos in Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, scary, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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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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Blades (1989)
Plot Summary:
HAPPY GILMORE meets MANIAC in this gore-filled swing at one of the most popular sports today, golf. A game of hooks slices...and slaughter!!! Meet Blades, the most terrifying character ever to tear up the screen...and Blades isn't even human. More evil than anything you can imagine, this monster lawn-mower is mauling more than the grass! The golfers on the fairway are all fair games as they try to make it to the 19th hole. BLADES, the teed off, wide radius, possessed power tool, in on a killing spree that will leave even duffers "handicapped"!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, parody, spoof, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, absurd, feel good, psychological, surprise ending, bloody