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Plot Summary:
What happens when normal people find they need to kill, in order to survive? This is the story of such a group of people, suddenly turned into vampires, and carving a path of blood and mayhem throughout New York City. Slowly, they lose their grip on reality, and turn into an army of anti-social, psychopathic misfits; and surely, they turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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The Sunday Night Slaughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
An anthology horror film following 3 stories including demons, cannibals, psychopaths and demigods all intertwined, taking place in the final 31 days of earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Blood Shot (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on the award winning short film, Blood Shot is the story of a cop named Rip whose life falls apart as he chases a terminator-like vampire, who happens to be a hitman for the CIA. They must join forces to stop a terrorist cell before its too late, battling through obstacles such as a harem, giant eunuch, demon-genie, and even explosive midgets.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, rough, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, scary
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Meat Market (2000)
Plot Summary:
Animals attacks, says the TV news. But two ex-security agents know the real cause - maybe the real culprits. Shahrokh and Argenta are former employees of a company they knew to be conducting bizarre medical experiments. What has resulted are not animals attacks, but attacks by humans turned into vicious, decomposing, cannibalistic zombies. Their efforts to stem the violence in vain, hunted by the authorities, Shahrokh and Argenta escape the city just as it is engulfed in chaos. Their only hope lies in finding and organizing the few remaining survivors. What they find - three women claiming to be vampires with high-tech weaponry, a deranged and washed-up Mexican wrestler, a wounded soldier, and a scientist who may know more than he lets on - offer more questions than answers. Can this tiny cadre hope to defeat an army of the undead? And if they succeed...will there be anyone left alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Horror, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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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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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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Choking Hazard (2004)
Plot Summary:
When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal battle. Alternately sickening and silly, this gruesomely hilarious Czech horror flick co-stars Jan Dolansky, Eva Nadazdyova, Anna Fialkova and Eva Janouskova.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, serious, slasher
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Cadaverella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cinder knew her life was over when her father came home from a business trip with a new wife and her 2 daughters when she was only 6. When her father dies soon afterwards, she pretty much has to care for herself, as her stepmother whittles away her father's money and possessions. Cinder bides her time by hanging with her best friend Justin, working at the library with the unbearable Lenore, and crushing on Cash, the psycho who tends the lawn, until her 21st birthday, when she inherits the trust fund her father left for her. When she makes off with Justin's clay doll of the voodoo god Baron Samedi, the god visits her to help "make things happen" for her--including landing a night with Cash. Little did she know, however, that Cash was in cahoots with her step-mom to do away with her so they could get her trust fund money. Little did Cash and Step-mom know, that Baron Samedi was going to help Cinder get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Retardead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As the ravenous monsters overrun the town, Hannigan tries to convince Stern's faithful assistant to reveal how to foil the crazed doctor's evil scheme.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, horror comedy, creepy, ridiculous
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Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation (2012)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's inheritance-seeking younger brother unexpectantly shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak!.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Butcher Boys (2012)
Plot Summary:
A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, horror comedy, scary, realistic, independent film
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Banshee!!! (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. "Banshee!!!" takes the idea of the legendary Irish myth and spins it around into a terrifying and unstoppable monster!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious
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Curse of the Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations. She desperately wants to live a normal life, and to break free from her curse, she flees to hide in the city. When the pack aggressively hunts her down, the bouncers offer her protection and band together to battle the werewolves who want her dead... and who won't give up their wolf without a vicious fight.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, rough, splatter
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Werewolf: The Devil's Hound (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped werewolf - who’s determined to start a family of her own - sinks her claws into Kevin, leaving him with an uncontrollable desire to kill. Can his family save him before his lycan nature takes over for good?.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, spoof, parody
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Slayer (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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Eternal Blood (2002)
Plot Summary:
Carmilla, A journalism student, meets a group of kids that play a role-game called "Eternal Blood". She gets interested in this hobby by "M", a young man she met in a philosophy seminar. "M" gets Carmilla into the role game; but in a strange party at an abandoned house, the group meet "Dahmer", an unusual young man who makes rituals about vampirism and shortly he begins influencing his friends. "M" realizes the situation is unusual and that some of them are actually being transformed into vampires. In the investigation of the origin of these myths, "M" finds the way to revert the group's process. The philosophy professor gives him some texts about this issue that might help him find the way to save their souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, tense
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Dead Cert (2010)
Plot Summary:
A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn out to be nothing less than Vampires wanting their land back and turn viciously on the gangsters when their demands are not met.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, fast
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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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Hatchet II (2010)
Plot Summary:
Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, bloody, splatter, psychological, funny
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Swamp Zombies!!! (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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Parts of the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, scary, slasher, campy
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Last Rites of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
In an imagined reality where zombies coexist with ordinary mortal folk, the undead are considered second-class citizens. Angela finds this out the hard way when she's shot by her boyfriend and must learn to adjust to her new zombie lifestyle. She tempers her hunger for human flesh with Zombies Anonymous meetings and tries to pass for living in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, not serious, suspense, mockbuster, scary, independent film, psychotronic, horror comedy, offbeat
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Hide and Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspense, independent film, biting, campy
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The Taint (2011)
Plot Summary:
The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women's heads with rocks (or other objects). When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O'Ginny and his hot friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint. Can they survive a world brimming with castration and endless head crushing?!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic, grindhouse, horror comedy, retro, disturbing
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Dead Meat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Helena and Martins vacation to Ireland quickly transforms into a nightmare as a virus which turns humans into flesh-eating zombies is starting to spread.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, semi serious, humorous, suspense, horror comedy, scary, slasher, cult film
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Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
An evil force is awakened in downtown Athens transforming the unsuspecting citizens into raving zombies. The few survivors will have to fight hard for their lives. To the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, tense, captivating, horror comedy, psychedelic, suspense, hilarious, scary, exciting
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Zombie Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road out of town, Jake turns to Alex, his ex-girlfriend, for help. Together they try to solve the mystery behind this rapidly spreading infection. As the town grow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Zombie Hunter (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zombie Hunter is set in a post-apocalyptic Zombie wasteland caused by the mysterious street drug "Natas". We follow one man who has nothing left other than a beat up Camaro and a trunk full of guns and booze. He runs down Flesh Eaters, hunting for sport and redemption, while also running from his past. After crashing into a small group of survivors, who are running low on resources, he decides to lend a hand. But a surprise attack by the Flesh Eaters forces them on the run and puts the Hunter's skills to the test.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense, retro, apocalyptic, mockbuster, serious, futuristic
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Vampires: The Turning (2004)
Plot Summary:
An American muay-thai fighter in Thailand must join forces with a group of vampire hunters to track down and kill a vampire lord who has kidnapped his gilfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, gothic, suspense, slasher, cult classic, cult film