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Plot Summary:
When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of 'exploitation king' William Castle's supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Doodles Weaver, Jesse White and John ("Gomez Addams") Astin.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Followers (2021)
Plot Summary:
A struggling social media influencer discovers the house he shares is haunted. The ghost brings him and his friends fame and fortune, but with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, semi serious, demonic, dark comedy
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Plot Summary:
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, absurd, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, campy
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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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Another Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
After encountering a ghost in his family's vacation home, Dan and his wife Mary hire an "industrial-grade exorcist" named Os to get rid of the beings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, horror comedy, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, indie film
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Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018)
Plot Summary:
Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school. While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin’s family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: horror comedy
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Haunted Trailer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two goofy hick brothers (Elvis and Aaron), their crazy redneck Momma and sexy sister (Prissy) must exorcise their mobile home of an ancient demon set free to fulfill an end-times prophecy, with the help of a low rent TV evangelist named Reverend Wiggems, or the world will be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ghost Game (2004)
Plot Summary:
7 Friends go out to cabin for a weekend of relaxing and find a game that should not be opened!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Where Got Ghost? (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Where Got Ghost?" is a Horror-Comedy Chinese Movie. 3-in-1 Horror tales told in a good old comedy fashion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, not serious, bleak
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Show Me the Ghost (2021)
Plot Summary:
Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there with him. They gradually feel a strange energy in the house that seemed perfect. They encounter ominous ghost and freaked out. With no place to go and no money, they try to defeat the ghost to protect their house….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, semi serious, slasher
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Devi(L) (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man who wants a modern girl for a wife unwillingly marries a village girl. What happens when the girl is possessed by the ghost of an aspiring actress?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, humorous, suspenseful
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Playhouse (2003)
Plot Summary:
After years hiding in the shadows, the ancient ghosts of an old Pittsburgh theater make their presence known once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Ghost Light (2018)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled summer-stock actor contemptuously disregards the superstition surrounding Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth and, by doing so, unleashes the curse of 'The Scottish Play' and wreaks havoc on the company.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, humorous, suspense, psychotronic, dark, dark comedy, horror comedy
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RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill (2010)
Plot Summary:
Is there any possible downside to accepting an invitation from Vincent Price to spend an evening in a creepy mansion that was built on something called “Haunted Hill?” If so, Mike, Kevin and Bill couldn’t find it! In fact they were so eager to join Mr. Price and his terrifying moustache that they riffed the film live, on-stage, and now you can reap the rewards from the safety of home with this live show DVD! Yes, horror classic House on Haunted Hill provides a mesmerizing walk down “people actually used to find this SCARY?!?” lane. Join the RiffTrax guys as they bring their special brand of rapid-fire comedic commentary to every skeleton-hanging-from-visible-wires, clumsy sexual overtone, and a stunningly inept test pilot whose “heroics” typically lead him to bloody his own nose after locking himself in a broom closet!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, feel good, humorous, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror spoof
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Daisy Derkins, Dogsitter of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
A hot young college girl takes a gig dogsitting for the mysterious SILAS KILLINGTON. But hours have gone by, and she hasn't seen the dog. And the news of an escaped serial killer has her on edge. She calls some friends over, but their Ouija board session causes a blackout. Or does it? And why is some freak outside the window singing "I'm in the Mood for Love"? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE???.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Untitled Horror Movie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set on computer screens and found footage style content, the movie follows six actors who decide to shoot their own horror movie as their hit TV show is on the brink of cancellation. In their search for a plot, they unintentionally summon a spirit with an affinity for violence, who starts picking them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, scary, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, cyber, horror spoof
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Dementia Part II (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an ex-con takes a job as a handyman for an unstable elderly woman to avoid a parole violation, it becomes a choice he may regret.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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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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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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House of the Damned (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses witchcraft to try to steal her daughter's youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, scary, mind bending, humorous, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spoof, dark comedy
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DeadTectives (2018)
Plot Summary:
A team of reality TV paranormal investigators go to Mexico's most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings. However, when the true dark secrets of the mansion begin to reveal themselves, the hapless team quickly discover that this house is no hoax. With zero genuine ghost-hunting experience, they have to figure out how to stop the ghosts and escape the house with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, not serious, funny, bleak, satirical, absurd, psychotronic, humorous, horror comedy, psychological
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The Slaughter (2006)
Plot Summary:
A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder leaves the house abandoned for yet another forty years. Now, six fun loving college students are hired to clean up the house for a greedy real estate mogul who plans to sell it for a large profit. They unwittingly awake the demon and only the ultimate sacrifice can save the world from a future of unspeakable evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, campy
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Paranormal Movie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new home.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, spoof, psychotronic, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, horror spoof
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has inhabited their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, spooky, independent film, serious, psychotronic, sexy
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The Scream Team (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, horror comedy, spooky
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Ghost Team One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, scary, psychological, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, mockumentary, horror spoof
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The Hazing (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, bloody, horror comedy, independent film, slasher, serious, splatter
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Late Fee (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, humorous, satanic
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic
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My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
Plot Summary:
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, entertaining, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending, eighties