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Plot Summary:
A group of six friends are out in the rural south on a deer hunt (even though one of the six is blind), when they start hearing strange noises coming from the woods. An investigation of the sounds leads them to an old Confederate graveyard, which suddenly begins sprouting Rebel zombies. Like the living dead in every other movie, these zombies are hungry for human flesh, and soon set to chowing down on the hapless hunters.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, exotic
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Raving Maniacs (2005)
Plot Summary:
At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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The Night They Returned (2004)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Gore-met, Zombie Chef from Hell (1986)
Plot Summary:
A cannibal opens up a seafood restaurant, and kills and cooks people to serve to his customers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Zombiez (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Drive-In Horrorshow (2009)
Plot Summary:
A low-budget horror anthology made of 5 short films, each belonging to a different horror sub-genre. These segments are introduced by a ghoulish host of the sort that used to present late-night horror movies on TV. The five films are Pig, The Closet, Fall Apart, Meat Man, and Watcher.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, slasher, independent film, dark comedy, campy, cult film
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Killing Spree (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film
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Night Life (1989)
Plot Summary:
Archie works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile accident, and the bodies are taken to his uncle's mortuary. Archie is pulling a late night at the mortuary when he sees a storm brewing. Lighting strikes! They're alive! The preppie bullies continue to torment him...as zombies!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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The Dead One (1961)
Plot Summary:
A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Bombshell Bloodbath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Carter losts his wife and devotes his life to resurrecting her. However, every test of his C-900 formula creates hungry, flesh-eating zombies. Then, his daughter Cara contracts the virus and she and her sister strive to obtain the anti-serum.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic, independent film
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Shatter Dead (1994)
Plot Summary:
Depressing tale about a world of the undead and a woman's trek to get home to her boyfriend's house.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, art house, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Bothered Conscience (2006)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the remote Arkansas backwoods, a father passes on the traditions of the Ozark mountain men to his 5 year-old son. Under his strict and cruel guidance, young Lucas learns to protect the family land at all costs, and hones the skills of the hunt that have been handed down from generation to generation. But their prey is no ordinary game.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Goblin (1993)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Ozone! Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986)
Plot Summary:
An ecological disaster turns some rednecks into flesh-eating mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: splatter, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Doomed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds).
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Plot Summary:
An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of savage hoodlums, and three sisters do their best to stay alive and survive this harrowing ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Forever Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Zombie Cult Massacre (1998)
Plot Summary:
Branch-Davidian-style cultists battle both zombies and bikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: psychedelic
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Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of zombies that are used by the government to fight in a major war in the near future get launched into space. The space shuttle gets caught in a time warp and returns to Earth in the present day. Naturally, the zombies get loose and terrorize a motley assortment of folks who are trapped inside a high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Coma-Brutal Duel (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a man is killed by a drunk driving, his son wants revenge, which starts a big battle that will continue for years.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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Zombie Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the two rise from their graves and return to the land of the living as zombies. Dr. Death is resurrected with a new mission in mind, to take over the world. The "zombie" cop enlists the aid of his old police buddies to stop the mad priest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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Bloodeaters (1980)
Plot Summary:
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Mimesis (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
Plot Summary:
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Blood Shed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sweet little tale about your average inbred, hillbilly, cannibal family residing in the northern part of New Jersey and how they deal with the day-to-day annoyances of encroaching suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Plot Summary:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, scary, bloody, disturbing, southern gothic, rough, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the professor. Out of the blue, the zombies attack them and they seek shelter in the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, bloody, slasher, disturbing, cult classic, atmospheric