Best movies like The Happy House
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Plot Summary:
Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it's one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they've wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house's batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily rare butterfly, the world's best blueberry muffins, a .44 Magnum, a demented serial killer, and one very strict rulebook.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, scary, mumblecore, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
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Dead on Appraisal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Real estate agent John Dante has a problem. He's stuck with a house he can't sell. Despite his best efforts, he can't seem to overcome the house's past and the macabre tales that precede it in this haunting anthology. In the first story, THE MORNING AFTER, a group of friends wake up from the party of a lifetime to find a nightmare in the form of the worst bug invasion any homeowner has ever seen. Then there's Freddie Cooper and his band, FREDDIE AND THE GOBLINS; a tale of how Freddie's band mates try to kick him out and get caught up in the young singer's growing psychosis. With his hopes of selling the house fading, John is horrified to hear the story of Robbie, a young veteran of the war in Iraq, who returns home to live with his father Brad in FATHER LAND. Something isn't right, though, as Robbie's dark secret slowly bubbles to the surface. As the house's dark past comes to life, John becomes weary and is convinced the house is cursed and unsellable.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, anthology, scary, splatter
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Lake Fear (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four girls go to a cabin in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, sexy, demonic, psychotronic
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All About Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Deborah quickly cultivates a rabid legion of San Franciscan gore fans who help catapult her to new-found local celebrity-- business booms so quickly, she's forced to bring on a full film crew of like-minded misfits to meet the demand! Her adoring public, and even her biggest fan-- high school student Steven-- don’t realize that the murders in the movies are all too real. But will this brooding youth catch the blame as Deborah's steady stream of 'actors' keep disappearing at an ever-quickening pace? What grisly fate awaits those that dare enter the Victoria theatre? Find out in ALL ABOUT EVIL!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, funny, retro, horror comedy, cult horror, dark drama, queer horror
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May I Kill U? (2012)
Plot Summary:
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy
Similar in 84%
Shock Value (2014)
Plot Summary:
Struggling 'B' movie Director blackmails a serial killer to be the star of his next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, horror comedy
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Shotgun Wedding (2013)
Plot Summary:
After Robert, a marrying-up groom, 'accidentally' shoots his fiance's Maid of Honor in the face during a drunken skeet-shooting session, his meddling mother does whatever it takes to ensure the wedding takes place.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, romantic comedy, scary, offbeat, realistic, not serious, semi serious
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The Hospital (2013)
Plot Summary:
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate for her senior class project. Unfortunately, she does not find ghosts. She, instead, finds Stanley... serial rapist, murderer, and psychopath. As the young girl becomes Stanley's new pet, a team of young investigators descend on the hospital to "hunt some ghosts." Stanley sees nothing but fun and games in his future. But, what Stanley does not know is that the hospital truly is haunted and the restless spirits there are not happy with what he has been doing.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, medical horror, captivating, slasher, retro, realistic
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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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Dahmer vs. Gacy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A secret government lab run by Dr. Hess (Art LaFleur) has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers Jeffrey Dahmer (Ford Austin) and John Wayne Gacy (Randal Malone), but there’s one big problem: they’ve escaped! Bloody mayhem stretches across the United States as they go on the ultimate killing spree. Trying to stop the maniacal madness is Ringo (Ford Austin), a hick warrior being trained by God (Harland Williams), using only a shotgun and a bottle of whiskey. In his road trip to hell, he must first fight off his own demons, not to mention an army of Japanese ninjas and a Super-serial killer (Ethan Phillips)! It all leads up to the ultimate showdown!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, not serious, tense, captivating, offbeat, independent film, slapstick, campy, cult film
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The Taming of the Shrews (2009)
Plot Summary:
A horror-comedy of errors, Die-ner (get it?) explores the existential dilemma of a sociopath killer who runs into the unique problem of his victims rising from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, realistic
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Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 a group of young, horny, out of control Christians are spending a fun filled weekend at the mountain lakeside Happy Day Bible Camp. One by one these youthful sinners pay a BLOODY penance for their misdeeds. Flash forward 7 years, when another youth group of Bible toters return, lead by "Father Richard Cummings" (Reggie Bannister), "Sister Mary Chopper," (Tim Sullivan) goes bloody murder after the camp - emphasis on CAMP - with stand out performances by folks like Gigi Bannister, Jessica Sonneborn, Troy Guthrie, Deborah Venegas, Jay Fields, and Jeff Dylan Graham. In the end, Bannister and Troup must face down the a transvestite serial killing nun in a fight to the death, and call upon the higher graces of the infamous Ron Jeremy as "Jesus" guide them through! A hilarious campy equal opportunity offensive film that will have you DIE laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, spoof, scary, realistic
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Ghost of Goodnight Lane (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the staff inside a renovated film studio finds a co-worker dead one morning, the pieces of a forty year puzzle add up to an angry ghost who has let the last person step inside her house. But will they ever get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, captivating, tense, humorous, psychological, scary, serious, independent film
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Holla II (2013)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping with her life at the hands of her mentally ill sister Veronica, Monica, with the help of her Mother, Marion, has taken great measures to ensure her safety, including changing her face and relocating to the South. Six years has past and now she finally believes she is safe from Veronica. Little does she know that death and betrayal still await her and her friends on the eve of her wedding at a southern plantation house rumored to be haunted by 13 murdered slaves. This time no one is safe and everyone is a suspect as killing becomes addictive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, teen horror, campy
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Among Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
A twisted horror about a dinner party gone wrong. Set against an 80s backdrop, the good time takes a dark turn when one in the group hijacks the evening in an attempt to help the others come clean about their secret betrayals against one another–and is willing to cut through the bone in order to expose the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, erotic, slasher, dark drama, queer horror, scary, realistic, independent film
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Meadowoods (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a sleepy and uneventful small town, three college students, bored and desperate to make their mark, plot a savage and merciless murder. Electing to keep a video journal to memorialize their bizarre pact, they plot in secret, devising a homemade death chamber that will allow them to see, hear, feel, and linger over their intended victim's torment and final moments of life. Then, chosen at random, a fellow student becomes this victim when she is to receive perhaps the most brutal and horrifying of all fates. The default leader of this macabre trio directs the physical and psychological terror, even as contention and hostility within the group threatens to jeopardize their twisted plan, culminating in a violent and chilling conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, captivating, depressing, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, serious, awful
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Sea of Fear (2006)
Plot Summary:
College athlete Lance and his friend Tom meet Tom's girlfriend Kate and her friend Ashley in a marina to travel on a rented boat on a leisure trip. The Captain brings his navigator and first mate Joel and another unexpected passenger, Derek, along on the trip. Soon the boat is stranded and one by one the shipmates are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic
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The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Fright Fest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Blood runs rampant on Halloween night when a small towns' Fright Fest becomes real inside the walls of a long abandoned asylum.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, captivating, suspense
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You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Monroe (Monroe Mann) and Hilary (Crystal Arnette) have discovered that they have inherited a lake house and to make things even better, the famous horror author Stephen King is rumoured to live somewhere nearby. They decide to take their friends down to the lake house to check things out, only to find immediate resistance from all of the locals, who insist that King doesn't live in the area. Despite being completely unwelcome, they decide to stay and soon find that people are being killed one by one in a manner similar to several deaths in various Stephen King stories.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, mockbuster, horror comedy, realistic, independent film, horror spoof
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Psychos in Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, scary, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Plot Summary:
An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, dark comedy, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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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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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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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Blood Widow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic
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April Apocalypse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone's favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silence. And then April moves out of the state. She's his best friend and support since kindergarten and the love of his life. Three years later Artie finally has the courage to take to the road and go see April to tell her how he feels about her. One car-crash later Artie wakes up in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But this time he's not going to hide. Artie's love for April doesn't give him wings, but does give him the courage to hack, slash, punch and kick himself a part towards the girl he loves. Time is of the essence, because that bite on his hand will make the difference between a French kiss and a bite out of April's brains.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, horror comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Plot Summary:
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, light
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark