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Plot Summary:
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, political, horror comedy, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like The Werewolf of Washington (1973):
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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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A Werewolf in England (2020)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian-Era England, a Parish Councillor and criminal take refuge from a storm, at a remote countryside Inn. Forced to stay the night, they soon uncover a deadly pact between the strange Innkeepers and the flesh-hungry werewolves that inhabit the surrounding woodlands... now, as the werewolves close in, the guests must band together and fight tooth and nail to survive the night!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Wolfman Never Sleeps (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man has had a werewolf curse cast upon him. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, sadistic, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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Bugged (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bugged! tells the story of a group of bumbling exterminators who are called over to the house of an attractive young novelist to rid her house of insects. Unfortunately, due to a horrible chemical mix-up, the poison spray causes the bugs to grow to enormous sizes, and pretty soon everyone's trapped inside the house and have to find a way to stop the dastardly pests before they start multiplying and take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, natural horror, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, campy
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Werewolves in Heat (2015)
Plot Summary:
Death Valley is a place where drunk college kids can run wild on weekends without fear of the police shutting them down. This small desert town is home to a local Biker gang known as the Legion of Outlaws, an MC who traffic drugs and prostitution through this quiet community. Death Valley is also a place where getting attacked by a werewolf is nothing out of the ordinary especially during a full moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Slaughter Party (2006)
Plot Summary:
Here's what Judge David Johnson has to say about this film: Yes, there is a party, and some people do get slaughtered. Beyond that you're better off looking the other way and using your time more wisely. Go read a book. Or run for a position on your local school board. Or yodel for 90 minutes.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, scary, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, offbeat, splatter, horror comedy
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A Werewolf in the Amazon (2005)
Plot Summary:
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, suspense, sexy, offbeat, not serious, campy
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Carry on Screaming! (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, horror comedy, parody, suspense, spoof, sexy, detective, humorous, semi serious, fast
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Splatter Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
Splatter Beach is a 2007 low-budget horror comedy film made by the prolific Polonia brothers. It was released on DVD by Camp Motion Pictures.Starring Erin Brown, Erika Smith, Alison Whitney, Brice Kennedy, Ken Van Sant and Dave Fife, Splatter Beach concerns a reporter who hopes to write a story on a series of disappearances that have plagued a local beach, and who finds instead a sea monster in full rubbery attire.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, parody, suspense, splatter, spoof, scary, offbeat
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Terror Toons (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, slasher, horror comedy, ridiculous, cult film
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Amigo Undead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amigo Undead is the story of Kevin Ostrowski as he attempts to reconcile with his estranged, underachieving brother Norm on a camping trip. They're accompanied by several of Norm's unusual friends. When one of these friends dies accidentally, the decision is made to bury him out in the desert with some very unforeseen supernatural consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark comedy, horror comedy
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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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Choking Hazard (2004)
Plot Summary:
When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal battle. Alternately sickening and silly, this gruesomely hilarious Czech horror flick co-stars Jan Dolansky, Eva Nadazdyova, Anna Fialkova and Eva Janouskova.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, serious, slasher
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Beware! The Blob (1972)
Plot Summary:
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Werewolf (1995)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists with unplaceable accents unearth a skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. The Native Americans on the dig instantly recognize it as the remains of a werewolf, so the team leaders immediately take it to their lab and stare at it. Natalie, one of the team members, thinks it's absolutely fascinating, but Yuri siezes on greater ambitions when one of the dig assistants, who injured themself on the remains, becomes infected and turns into a werewolf in full view of hospital personnel. Yuri then conducts an experiment infecting other people in town to see if they turn into werewolves as well. When Paul arrives at the lab to assist in analyzing the remains, Yuri infects him, too. After Paul's transformation (under a week-long full moon), Natalie tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, cult classic, independent film, semi serious, surprise ending, spooky
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The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, classic horror, surprise ending, horror comedy, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, erotic
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Game of Werewolves (2011)
Plot Summary:
After 15 years, Tomas, a moderately successful writer, returns to his family's ancestral village in Galicia to receive a civic award, and write his next book. Neither of those things happens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, humorous, not serious, horror comedy, low-budget
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Werewolf: The Devil's Hound (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped werewolf - who’s determined to start a family of her own - sinks her claws into Kevin, leaving him with an uncontrollable desire to kill. Can his family save him before his lycan nature takes over for good?.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, spoof, parody
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Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
Plot Summary:
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Monsturd (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
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Vampire Party (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sam, Prune et Alice sont trois amis squatteurs de soirées. Le jour où ils dénichent des invitations pour la très mystérieuse Nuit Médicis, ils pensent avoir décroché le gros lot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
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Last Rites of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
In an imagined reality where zombies coexist with ordinary mortal folk, the undead are considered second-class citizens. Angela finds this out the hard way when she's shot by her boyfriend and must learn to adjust to her new zombie lifestyle. She tempers her hunger for human flesh with Zombies Anonymous meetings and tries to pass for living in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, not serious, suspense, mockbuster, scary, independent film, psychotronic, horror comedy, offbeat
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The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, humorous, epic, cult film
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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
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WolfCop (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a turn for the strange...and hairy. WolfCop is the story of one cop's quest to become a better man. One transformation at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, suspense, semi serious, tense, captivating, grindhouse, retro, psychological, funny, slasher
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Plot Summary:
Six actors go to graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, horror comedy, disturbing, black and white, mockbuster, cult classic, cult horror
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Ghoulies II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: splatter, cult classic, scary, humorous, horror comedy, classic horror, independent film, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious
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Cursed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, slasher, teen, suspenseful, horror comedy, cult classic, teen horror, suspense, humorous
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Waxwork (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicous. What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, classic horror, psychological, funny
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, funny, disturbing, humorous, gothic, scary, horror comedy