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Plot Summary:
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological, surreal, suspense, twisted, serious, horror comedy
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Baxter (1989)
Plot Summary:
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, allegory, surreal, controversial, deep, twisted, serious, captivating
Similar in 87%
Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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The Vagrant (1992)
Plot Summary:
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black comedy, detective, surprise ending, surreal, horror comedy, independent film, psychological, clever, humorous, realistic
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The Cannibal Club (2018)
Plot Summary:
Baking in the sun with a cocktail, a splash in the pool and the occasional chunk of human flesh. The stinking-rich Gilda and Octavio have a gruesome and kooky hobby. The Cannibal Club is a delightful dark-comic blow-up of the Brazilian super-rich and their ivory towers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, humorous, neo noir, bloody, crying, dark comedy
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Murder in a Blue World (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, surreal, neo noir, futuristic, controversial, crying, psychotronic, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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100 Bloody Acres (2012)
Plot Summary:
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, horror comedy, slasher, dark comedy, psychological, splatter, creepy, rough, realistic
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Angel of the Night (1998)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the vampire was Rebecca's great grandfather, Rico.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, splatter, non-linear, psychotronic, freeze frame, horror comedy
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Frankenstein 90 (1984)
Plot Summary:
French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'amour, Frankenstein and his understanding fiancé use a cache of freshly murdered strippers to build the creature a beautiful yet dutiful bride. Can the undead find true love in a cold world, or will the French ways of passion unleash some monstrous surprises upon them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy
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The Bar (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers are trapped inside a bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, dark comedy, horror comedy, suspense, brutal, scary, intense, hispanic, crime thriller
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Deadtime Stories (1986)
Plot Summary:
A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories--about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, fairy tale, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, cult classic, independent film, semi serious
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Zombie High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, teen comedy, urban fantasy, cult film
Similar in 85%
Teddy (2020)
Plot Summary:
France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that local angry farmers have been hunting for months. As weeks go by, animal pulsions soon start to overcome the young man….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, horror comedy, urban fantasy
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Deadgirl (2008)
Plot Summary:
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic and soon realize she is anything but dead. Quickly the boys find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey testing the limits of their friendship, and forces both to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, tense, erotic, brutal, controversial, grindhouse, creepy
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Massacre at Central High (1976)
Plot Summary:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stitches (2012)
Plot Summary:
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Ireland, Sweden, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, horror comedy, serious, dark comedy, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white, atmospheric, stylized, scary, underground film, horror comedy
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Martin (1977)
Plot Summary:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, creepy, cult classic, cult horror
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Common Wealth (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humor gives way to suspense, closely followed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, enigmatic, disturbing, bleak, horror comedy, witty, scary, manga
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The Last Horror Film (1982)
Plot Summary:
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Society (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy, cult horror, erotic, horror comedy, atmospheric, bloody
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Cemetery Man (1994)
Plot Summary:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, disturbing, sexy, scary, atmospheric, horror comedy, cult classic
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Killer Tongue (1996)
Plot Summary:
This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison and also encounters the meteorite, as does a mute Nun who is converted into a sexy drum majorette. Pursued by the prison officials who are after him, the whole group eventually come into conflict.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, splatter, dark comedy, rough, offbeat, independent film, fast
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Plot Summary:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Brain Damage (1988)
Plot Summary:
A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious, bloody, splatter, cult classic, slasher, dark comedy
Similar in 79%
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Plot Summary:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, slasher, controversial, surreal, philosophical
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Cheap Thrills (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, tense, independent film, psychological, stylized, black comedy, humorous, horror comedy, scary
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Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough
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Taxidermia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic, offbeat, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy