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Plot Summary:
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, horror comedy, black comedy, dark, disturbing, splatter, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Random Acts of Violence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are movies, New York, and mass murder. CHARM is an ultra low budget black comedy about Malcolm - a New Yorker who gets tired of how gentrified, tepid and antiseptic it's all become. What's happened to the 'Good ole days'?! And so he decides to take matters into his own hands by personally starting a crime wave which he hopes will catch on and drive real estate value down, opening up the city to bohemians, artists and a swell of creativity, just like the supposed good 'ole days of the 1970s and 80s. The only problem is: Nobody is paying attention.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy, horror comedy, interesting
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Barking dogs never bite (2000)
Plot Summary:
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, feel good, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Evil Ed (1995)
Plot Summary:
Edward is a friendly, harmless film cutter on the culture department. After an suicide accident, he is put on the mission to cut the "Loose limbs"-series. The blood, gore and violence makes him slowly goes insane. Edward slowly turns into Ed. Evil Ed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, splatter, psychological, suspense, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Touch of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, splatter, dark comedy, scary, rough
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Homebodies (1974)
Plot Summary:
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, political, surreal, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Bad (1977)
Plot Summary:
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the local cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's actually doing his job, but she doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates." Several other side plots are woven in, populated with characters from the sleazy side of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surreal, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, splatter
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Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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A Bucket of Blood (1995)
Plot Summary:
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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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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The Census Taker (1984)
Plot Summary:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Crimewave (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, funny, cult classic, dark comedy, humorous, spoof, slapstick, slasher, offbeat, not serious
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Just Buried (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young man inherits a nearly bankrupt funeral home from his estranged father. He falls in love with the alluring young mortician, only to find out she's offing people to keep the place in business!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, dark, offbeat, realistic, whimsical
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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Snowman's Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, serious, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, atmospheric, offbeat
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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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The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Plot Summary:
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, horror comedy, gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, parody, retro, suspense, spoof, grindhouse
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Cottage Country (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, suspense, psychological, funny, slasher, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic
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The Cottage (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, disturbing, black comedy, psychological
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, dark comedy, funny, suspense
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Pep Squad (1998)
Plot Summary:
Set in and around a small town high school in Kansas, Beth is a naive senior student who asks her two new friends, the slick and outgoing Julie, and her boyfriend Scott to help her cover up the accidental killing of the hated school principal. But they are observed by Terra, a student nominated for prom queen, who blackmails them into rigging the election in her favor. Undaunted, Beth, Julie and Scott turn to the most popular/hated student Cherry to kill Terra for them. Cherry agrees to the hit, but only if she gets Terra's nomination for prom queen and the crown as well which sets off more complications for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, rough, bloody, dark comedy, extreme horror, controversial, disgusting, erotic, psychological
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The Voices (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, surreal, psychological, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, dark, offbeat, suspense, independent film
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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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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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The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sinister tale of genius gone wrong, The Young Poisoner's Handbook chronicles a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of suburban English life. Hugh O'Conor plays Graham Young, a schoolboy from the London suburbs whose deadly obsession with toxic substances causes him to dabble in experimental murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, offbeat, humorous, witty, black comedy, depressing, horror comedy, clever, realistic
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Six Ways to Sunday (1997)
Plot Summary:
Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, talky, intense, humorous, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, neo noir, independent film, offbeat
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Hoods (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angelo, together with a group of five other people, is ordered by his father, an Italian mobster, to kill the son of an enemy of his, who has destroyed one of his buildings with a bomb. The problems grow bigger when they discover that the person they have to kill is really a nine-year-old.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, absurd, feel good, psychological, surprise ending, bloody
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Severance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Members (Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny) of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in the woods, and he has a horrible fate in mind for each of the co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, dark comedy, witty, slasher, horror comedy, suspense, splatter, black comedy, parody, suspenseful