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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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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Plot Summary:
Beatnick Jerry takes his girl, Angie to the carnival. Angie wants to go see the gypsy fortune teller, Jerry does not but relents. After visiting the fortune teller and hearing bad news, Jerry goes alone to see Carmelita, the dancer (the fortune teller's sister). He is invited backstage and is mesmerized into becoming a psychotic killer. Angie, and Jerry's best friend Harold realize something is amiss when Jerry tries to kill Angie.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: horror musical, absurd, grindhouse, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious
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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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The Chilling (1989)
Plot Summary:
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zombie Toxin (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dead horse infects two men with a disease that turns them in to overacting, poorly made up zombies. As they carry on defecating and vomiting on each other they contaminate a field of yeast, giving two Nazi-wannabes the idea of buying the infected field, selling the yeast in home wine-brewing kits and destroying the rest of humanity by spreading the infection.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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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Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991)
Plot Summary:
The makers of this parody of "Night of the Living Dead" took George Romero's classic and wiped the soundtrack clean, then redubbed it with comedic dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, parody, independent film, spoof, weird, horror spoof
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The Dead Don't Die (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, psychotronic, weird
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Death by Invitation (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Curse of the Blind Dead (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are captured during a ritual and brutally murdered by the locals. Just before the execution, the Knights swear to return from their graves to haunt the village and the nearby forest. Centuries later, in a post-apocalyptic future, a man and his daughter try to survive against both the undead Knights and a sect commanded by a mad preacher.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
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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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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Brackish (2015)
Plot Summary:
"If you could bring her back, would you?" This is the question burning deep within the mind of Jake, a man already torn apart by the brutal death of his fiancé Sarah. In an attempt to snap him out of his emotional tempest , Tila, his sister, convinces Jake to join her and her friends on a camping trip to an abandoned ghost town as a way to relax and get away from it all. However, things soon go wrong when Jake unknowingly discovers the dark secret of the town; a secret hinted within the warnings to stay away and leave from Merlock, the sheriff of a nearby town. Jake and the others ignore the warnings and press on, unaware of the events they are setting forth, and the fatal price that will have to be paid to answer this single burning question... "If you could bring her back, would you?" - Written by Mad Angel Films.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, cult movie cast
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Visions of Horror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Horror - Prepare yourself for seven of the most horrifying short films ever. Too sick and too disturbing for the faint of heart, Visions of Horror consists of critically acclaimed gore masterpieces. This collection is a must for a true gore guru. - Tony Simmons, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Gabriel Sigal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Zombie Christ (2010)
Plot Summary:
Druids resurrect the partially mummified remains of Jesus. They force the zombified Christ to commit unspeakable acts as their sect prepares to rule a new age of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, bleak, suspense
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One Last Sunset (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters struggle to exist after an apocalyptic virus has turned the entire human population into flesh eating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Short, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags:
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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 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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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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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Dead by Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas Past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic
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Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the macabre footsteps of the first VAULT OF TERROR installment, this sequel anthology film tells six more evil, demonic, hellish tales of dread and horror by some of the genre's best filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, dark fairy tale
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Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
Plot Summary:
A criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty, he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him. The plan goes horribly awry, and the bad guy ends up getting killed in his own trap. This pisses off the villain's spirit and he forces the priest to reincarnate him - only they can't find a suitable body. Meanwhile, an undead fiend of sorts comes to town to kill Billy's father over some other past dispute. This is where all of Billy's kung fu training comes in handy, and he manages to kill the attacker. With this, the other bad guy finally has a body to use, but the reincarnation goes wrong and the corpse is reborn as a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, psychotronic, weird
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FleshEater (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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Provoked (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of amateur paranormal investigators, frustrated with the lack of any solid evidence after months of attempts, decide to provoke and taught spirits from the afterlife in a last ditch attempt for a paranormal encounter. The experiment works, but they have awakened something angry and very deadly - something that follows them home and now will not leave. The investigators must now defend their home, and their family, from the spirits who were brought into this world and are not going without taking some souls with them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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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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Rockabilly Zombie Weekend (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple plans to have a rockabilly themed wedding out at the old farm, despite warnings of a West Nile Virus outbreak. Things go horribly wrong when the virus spawns zombie-creating mosquitoes, who begin to feed on the wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing