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Plot Summary:
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, humorous, epic, cult film
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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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Corpses (2004)
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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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Stalled (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve, and a soon-to-be-shit-canned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets instead of drinking egg nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper, he chooses to use the ladies restroom the very second a zombie outbreak occurs! Will he bowl us over and flush away the undead or (like in his pre-apocalypse life) simply remain ...Stalled?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, sexy, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, independent film
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Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
Plot Summary:
Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave, and those still alive in the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, horror comedy, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher, suspenseful
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Splatter Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
Splatter Beach is a 2007 low-budget horror comedy film made by the prolific Polonia brothers. It was released on DVD by Camp Motion Pictures.Starring Erin Brown, Erika Smith, Alison Whitney, Brice Kennedy, Ken Van Sant and Dave Fife, Splatter Beach concerns a reporter who hopes to write a story on a series of disappearances that have plagued a local beach, and who finds instead a sea monster in full rubbery attire.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, parody, suspense, splatter, spoof, scary, offbeat
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Terror Toons (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, slasher, horror comedy, ridiculous, cult 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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Fangs (2002)
Plot Summary:
Scottsville is a sleepy town, where the yearly apple blossom festival is usually the only 'memorable' event, so Police Chief Sam Taylor is furious when young cop Ally Parks -who comes from the big city- insists on investigating the death and mutilation of prof. Fuller, who experimented on bats, and soon several other victims, as unnatural bat attacks. She finds a helpful 'expert' in animal controller Dr. John Winslow, and the couple gets help from his inquisitive daughter Genny and her practically in-living high school-friend Logan to unravel how it all ties in with local real estate mogul Carl Hart's dishonest and corrupt practices.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, natural horror
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Plaga zombie: Zona mutante (2001)
Plot Summary:
A small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks with some kind of disease, but of course it spread with disastrous results. And now, three oddballs have been dumped into the middle of this town as test subjects or something, and the race for survival is on. John West is a strongman, with a cowboy hat and leopard skin tights, Bill is a medical student, and Max is a mathematical genius, and it's them against the zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody, suspense
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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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Monsturd (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
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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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Bong of the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, splatter
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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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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Plot Summary:
A college student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' on campus which resurrects the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, semi serious, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, sexual, sexy
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Zombie Strippers (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, stylized, grindhouse, suspenseful, semi serious, erotic, scary, bloody, cult classic
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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers who, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up releasing a horde of blood thirsty zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, slasher, saga
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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Evil - In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on the end of the First "Kako" movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and shoot random moving targets (zombie or not). In the meantime we take small flashbacks into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has happened as well and we learned about how they faced them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, hilarious, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Plot Summary:
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, horror comedy
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Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Atom is an amazing zombie killer, has a horny girlfriend...and is the best bowler in the league! But don't tell that to Dario and the Slashers, the evil bowling rivals who will stop at nothing to thwart Atom and his buddies. When all of his problems come to a head, Atom must battle his worst nightmare--ZOMBIES! May the bloodbath begin! let's ROCK and BOWL in this outrageous horror comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, feel good, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, bizarre
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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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Redneck Zombies (1989)
Plot Summary:
A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, cult horror, sexy, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher
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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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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Humans... the other white meat... Unless you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you are Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror musical, splatter, bloody, slasher, cult horror, grindhouse, parody
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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it's up to the janitor to take it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, offbeat, splatter, bizarre
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Plot Summary:
Six actors go to graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, horror comedy, disturbing, black and white, mockbuster, cult classic, cult horror
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, horror comedy, scary, humorous, slasher, splatter, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, apocalyptic
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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