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Plot Summary:
Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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You're Killing Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Joe just told his boyfriend, George, that he is a serial killer. George thinks that his boyfriend, Joe, is hilarious... and he just saw Patricia Arquette at Target!!! In the horror/comedy hybrid, 'You're Killing Me', we take a look at the life and death consequences of dating in the age of incessant chatter. Joe and George meet just as Joe is coming out to himself as someone who loves to kill. George, on the other hand, can't decide which wig to wear for his next YouTube video. As George's friends start disappearing, one by one, he must face the undeniable fact that Gretchen might not be coming back with crushed ice for his party #YouDontNeedIceForChardonnay.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, romantic, humorous, slasher, queer horror, dark comedy, crying, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Plot Summary:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Miss Leslie's Dolls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Three attractive University students and their equally attractive teacher seek refuge in a house on a dark and stormy night. The house is occupied by the strange “Miss Leslie” and her strangely lifelike “dolls”.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, weird, gay cinema, urban fantasy, campy
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crying, expressionism, independent film, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy, silent
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Wave of Crimes (2018)
Plot Summary:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, crying, detective, black comedy
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Office Killer (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, black comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, scary, independent film, dark comedy, offbeat
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The Mad Butcher (1971)
Plot Summary:
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Austria, Monaco
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Strangler vs Strangler (1984)
Plot Summary:
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, slasher, surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, horror musical, crying, detective, spoof, parody
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Halloween at Aunt Ethel's (2019)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in town knows the story of Old Aunt Ethel. It's said she makes Halloween candy and pumpkin pie out of the kids that trick-or-treat at her house. This Halloween, the neighborhood teens are going to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, scary, crying, psychotronic, sex comedy, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Feeding Mr. Baldwin (2013)
Plot Summary:
A house sitter bites off more than he can chew when a dead body mysteriously shows up at the estate he's watching.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, crying, black comedy, twisted, cult film
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The Killing Kind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious
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Loot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, crying, independent film, detective
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Julie Darling (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, erotic, disturbing, independent film, neo noir, crying, detective
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Cherokee Creek (2018)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor party in the woods gets crashed by the ultimate party animal.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, suspense, psychotronic, crying, dark comedy, horror comedy, urban fantasy
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Greatful Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, disturbing, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, weird
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Room for Rent (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sneekweek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six friends go to party for a week during the "Sneekweek". But they are haunted by a secret from their past.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic, humorous, slasher, sexy, detective
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Harpoon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, funny, slasher, disturbing, black comedy
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Massacre at Central High (1976)
Plot Summary:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cutting Class (1989)
Plot Summary:
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, funny, bloody, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Plot Summary:
Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher horror, bloody, slasher, psychological thriller, retro, entertaining, controversial, horror comedy, rough
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Fade to Black (1980)
Plot Summary:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful
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The Last Horror Film (1982)
Plot Summary:
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. Soon the group begins experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, funny, retro, dark, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak. As the paranoia worsens, Ronnie's list of possible killers starts growing just like the body count. Only one thing is for certain, something is carving a bloody new trail at Sleepaway Camp where kids can be so mean and surviving this summer is gonna be a real killer!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody, serious, slasher horror, retro, dark
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Bad Samaritan (2018)
Plot Summary:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, exciting, psychotronic, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Idle Hands (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's playground has a kernel of truth after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, scary, suspense, dark comedy, horror comedy, funny, teen, semi serious, realistic
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Shocker (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, sadistic, suspense, splatter, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, grindhouse