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Plot Summary:
Rock star Roddy Usher's wife is murdered and Rod is sent to a lunatic asylum in this gothic-comedy-horror-musical.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spooky, horror musical
Best tv shows and movies like The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century (2002):
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Rocky Horror Show Live (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Rocky Horror Show was born at the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs on June 16, 1973, and went on to become an international stage smash hit and a major motion picture.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: horror musical, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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13 Weird Stories (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, lovecraft, scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, dark fairy tale, independent film
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The Newlydeads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, the drag queen's spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, weird
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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, absurd, weird, cult film
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Tony Watt's Frankenpimp (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romeo Montague is the alias of (the re-animated) Patient Zero, a skilled, mutated android hit-man/pimp/ancient relics collector, that lives in Verona City, N.Y.; a dystopic metropolis filled with extreme horror & sexual deviancy; featuring: a lustful, demonic, man-eating Astro-Queen, a psychotic South American underworld god, human/android sex-slave party-girls, bloodthirsty zombies, vengeful deities and alien hooker vampire junkies/go-go girls. The cities are also plagued with murderous cybernetic 'goon' robots, that are constantly trying to take Montague's life, as he and his street hustling pal 'Tricky' tries to figure out which one of his jive-ass enemies are trying to kill him (as well as trying to stay one step ahead of 'The Man'). In the middle of this chaos, Romeo/Zero tries to find the thief of his ancient , multi-million dollar voodoo ring.
IMDB Rating: 1.2
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 194 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, horror comedy, neo noir, independent film
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Exterminator City (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Year is 2027. A robot pest controller turned serial killer has embarked on a murderous rampage, carving his way through the population of Atro City. Following in the wake of his destruction are a tough robot homicide detective and a sinister robot psychiatrist. Their investigation will take them on a terrifying journey into a twisted technological nightmare, more terrifying than you can ever imagine.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, queer horror, non-linear, art house, weird
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Zeppo: Sinners from Beyond the Moon! (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reimagining /regurgitation and re-dubbing of a classic silent horror flick! Shot in mind-shattering 2D (& 36DD), featuring T&A and epic voice-over ‘voom’, by Ms. Ilham Otaku & Pepe Chingadero! Original 1922 star Max Schreck plays (in newly tinted archive footage, mixed, with new) Count Orlock, a deviant, adulterous, shape-shifting Transylvanian vampire aristocrat & super creep, who is tearing Bremen, a new corn-hole & it's up to a 'brotha-in-a-collar' and a creole nun with a flamin' gun, to stop him, in this 'creature-feature' fang-fest! Co-Starring Canadian Scream Queen: Vivita, with new footage shot in tantalizing Watt-a-Rama & dubbed in Tex-O-Phonic Super-Sound.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: captivating, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Edgar Allan Poe's Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young actors adapt an Edgar Allan Poe tale into a theater production, the line between truth and fiction becomes terrifyingly blurred as elements from the harrowing story begin to bleed over into reality. The ensemble soon comes to the horrifying realization that life has begun to imitate art, and their collective descent into madness has reached a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Coyote (2014)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac writer's sleep-deprived hallucinations distort reality as paranoia drives him to extreme violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, controversial, cult horror
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
Plot Summary:
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Invasion for Flesh and Blood (1991)
Plot Summary:
Something strange is afoot in the suburbs of New Jersey! Carnivorous entities from out of this world have invaded the Garden State, seeking out the tastiest dish in the entire universe: human flesh! Now only a gang of burnt-out metalheads and one sexy psychic starlet can stand up to the alien invaders devious plans of world domination and human consumption!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Not of This Earth (1988)
Plot Summary:
A science fiction vampire movie. The Vampire is an emissary from an embattled world near destruction who teleports to Earth to see if they can live here. He finds that our blood is nourishing and that at least one source of it is a steady stream of transfusions. He hypnotizes a Dr. to provide them and has his blond nurse move in to administer them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, sex comedy, tech noir, cult classic, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Forbidden Zone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy, psychotronic, humorous, stylized, mind bending, mindfuck
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The Naked Monster (2005)
Plot Summary:
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, disturbing, mysterious, psychotronic, independent film, spoof
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The Hand of pleasure (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist named Dr. Dreadful leads a terrorist organization called the Hand of Pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Death Powder (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: cyber, controversial, experimental, avant garde, psychotronic
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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody, horror spoof
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Andromina: The Pleasure Planet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three adventurous space pilots voyage to the all-female planet Andromina, looking forward to the most famous pleasure planet in the galaxy. When they arrive they find that all the women have disappeared, and it's up to them to figure out where the fun has gone.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: space horror, queer horror, erotic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, campy
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The Creature Below (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, psychotronic
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, dark, absurd, horror comedy, mind bending, horror musical, claymation
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Dr. Caligari (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, horror comedy, cult classic
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Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Jenna asks her four hot girlfriends to help convert an old mansion into a Halloween Haunt, they decide to party instead! Things get steamy between the girls, until they accidentally unleash the half-pint, horrible Killer Eye, a perverse party crasher from beyond. Bent on having his way, the Killer Eye will stop at nothing until he gets exactly what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, rough, suspense, spooky, queer horror, scary, humorous, serious, psychotronic
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The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric, cult classic, grindhouse, mindfuck, art house, black comedy, horror comedy
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Dead & Breakfast (2004)
Plot Summary:
Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner and chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. But that's only the beginning as nearly all of the town's quirky residents become possessed by an evil spirit and pin down the friends inside the B&B.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspenseful, horror musical, tense, entertaining, disturbing, cult classic
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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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Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak, retro, folk tale, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Re-Animator (1985)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: splatter, cult classic, black comedy, scary, lovecraft, dark comedy, slasher, independent film, bloody, grindhouse
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Xtro (1982)
Plot Summary:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, retro, slasher, classic horror, spooky, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, splatter