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Plot Summary:
Herman Umgar, a German hermit, has an ability to communicate with worms. One day the mayor of the town runs him off his property, so in revenge he plants worms in everybody's food. However, these worms are a special breed of mutant worms from the Red Tide, and when the people eat them they are transformed into giant worms themselves. These worm-people also become Herman's slaves. What will the remaining do?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, disgusting, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody
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Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Plot Summary:
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, suspense, tech noir, spoof, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful
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Invicta (2009)
Plot Summary:
Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Patchwork (2015)
Plot Summary:
A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, horror comedy, psychotronic, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing, psychological, weird
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Return of the Killer Shrews (2012)
Plot Summary:
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, absurd, semi serious, psychotronic, ridiculous
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Kottentail (2007)
Plot Summary:
The "Overlook Animal Research Laboratory" has long been working on genetic engineering without any trouble. That all changes one night when two would be animal liberators set free a test rabbit, not knowing that the bunny's genes have gone haywire.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, independent film, spoof, parody
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The Monster of Camp Sunshine or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature (1964)
Plot Summary:
A scientist carelessly dumps some toxic waste into a river. The gardener at a nudist camp drinks the water, turns into a monster and attacks all the (female) nudists.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Mega Scorpions (2003)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a half-way house are bombarded by 6 foot long killer scorpions. A horror/comedy homage to the giant mutant bug films of the 1950's. The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but has yet to see release on DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five teenagers enter a deserted jungle and trespass inside an abandoned house only to haunted by a woman with a monster hidden inside her reproductive organs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: absurd, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, sex comedy, psychotronic, weird, horror spoof, campy
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The Strangeness (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, lovecraft, cult film
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Killer Bees (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic
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Night of the Flesh Eaters (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the most evil night of the year, a beautiful blond woman and ruggedly handsome archeologist hitman find themselves trapped in a forest haunted by bizarre flesh eating Native American demon zombies. As they flee the woman's crime boss husband, who seeks to murder them for their illicit love affair, their car is destroyed in a head-on collision with one of the demons, a Stone Man. The blond woman and assassin must escape the perils of the dark and evil forest, on foot, without becoming demon food or getting themselves slaughtered by the woman's vengeful, fat cat husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spoof, parody, horror spoof
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Aquanoids (2003)
Plot Summary:
On a small island off the California coast it's the Fourth of July and tourists are washing up dead in Babylon Bay, once again! In 1987, rumor has it that mysterious sea creatures called Aquanoids were responsible for 17 vicious deaths. The Mayor dispelled the sightings as urban legend to protect the local tourist trade. Join environmental activist Vanessa DuMont as her fight to save the endangered abalone on Santa Clara Island turns into a fight of her life.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Bigfoot (2006)
Plot Summary:
Something monstrous is slaughtering deer in the marshlands of Ohio, leaving them torn to shreds. Authorities believe it to be the work of a bear, but army veteran Jack Sullivan knows the truth. He has heard the creature’s name, but nothing can prepare him for the disturbing reality of BIGFOOT. The original monster of American folklore, Bob Gray’s Bigfoot is more savage, relentless, and bloodthirsty than he’s ever been before. The deer were just the beginning. He’s saving his ultimate wrath for the men who enter his domain.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, psychotronic, cult film
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Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
Plot Summary:
Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse
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Wolfman (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man finds out that his family has a werewolf curse put apon them.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic
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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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Squirm (1976)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, perverse, pastoral, independent film
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Willard (1971)
Plot Summary:
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, grindhouse, controversial, classic horror, tense, serious
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Drainiac! (2000)
Plot Summary:
Some teenagers in an old house find that there's something evil in the water.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, independent film
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Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994)
Plot Summary:
It's the final chapter in the cult classic Class of Nuke'Em High Trilogy, and this time the fate of Tromaville hangs in the balance! Following the destruction of the Nukamama Power Plant by the lovable and horribly mutated toxic squirrel Tromie. Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) and his half-subhumanoid son Adlai (also played by Brick Bronsky) are working to rebuild Tromaville into a place where human and subhumanoid can live together in peace. Unbeknownst to them, Adlai's twin brother Dick (again played by Brick Bronsky!), kidnapped at birth and raised by the evil Power Clite, has plans to regain contol of the Subhumanoids and turn Tromaville into a nuclear waste dump. In a showdown for the ages, "The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" face off in an explosive sci-fi battle of epic proportions!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, not serious, semi serious, psychotronic
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Bad Biology (2008)
Plot Summary:
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, rough, erotic, sexy, controversial, psychological, suspense, mystic
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Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Plot Summary:
Gore specialist H.G. Lewis' gruesome tale of an artist who becomes a success after using human blood in his paintings.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, splatter, suspense, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Blood Hook (1986)
Plot Summary:
During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, black and white, grindhouse, dark comedy, horror comedy, scary, disturbing, creepy, psychological, suspense
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" the pair soon find themselves having to confront their murderous past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, horror comedy
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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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Basket Case 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their new found home (presided over by Granny Roth), things however take a downward turn on a trip to the Georgia Clinic of Uncle Hal, which leads to an encounter with an especially nasty redneck sheriff and his similarly blinkered band of merry men.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, brutal, dark, mystic, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, spooky, independent film
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Zombeavers (2014)
Plot Summary:
College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, absurd, scary, bloody, horror comedy, not serious, spoof, grindhouse, dark comedy
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Basket Case (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, psychotronic, cult classic, suspenseful, splatter, horror comedy, cult horror, disturbing
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Slither (2006)
Plot Summary:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny, cult classic, horror comedy, parody, dark comedy