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Plot Summary:
Samuel Peters (Edward Furlong), once an ordinary man, dabbles in the laws of voodoo to bring his wife back from the grave. He soon encounters the God of malevolence ‘Kalfu’ (Corey Feldman), and makes a pact with him to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to earth. In return, he will become ‘The Zombie King’ and walk the earth for eternity with his late wife. But, as the ever growing horde of zombies begins to completely wipe out a countryside town, the Government set-up a perimeter around the town and employ a shoot-on-sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals, an unlikely bunch of misfits, must fight for their lives and unite in order to survive. Can our heroes unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: not serious, suspense, humorous, independent film, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult film
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Tales from the Lodge (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tales From The Lodge is a fresh take on the portmanteau horror-comedy genre. An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night, the gang become aware of another horror story unfolding around them - And this one is real.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, stylized, horror comedy, bleak, scary, splatter, anthology
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Meat Market (2000)
Plot Summary:
Animals attacks, says the TV news. But two ex-security agents know the real cause - maybe the real culprits. Shahrokh and Argenta are former employees of a company they knew to be conducting bizarre medical experiments. What has resulted are not animals attacks, but attacks by humans turned into vicious, decomposing, cannibalistic zombies. Their efforts to stem the violence in vain, hunted by the authorities, Shahrokh and Argenta escape the city just as it is engulfed in chaos. Their only hope lies in finding and organizing the few remaining survivors. What they find - three women claiming to be vampires with high-tech weaponry, a deranged and washed-up Mexican wrestler, a wounded soldier, and a scientist who may know more than he lets on - offer more questions than answers. Can this tiny cadre hope to defeat an army of the undead? And if they succeed...will there be anyone left alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Horror, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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Stag Night of the Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
If the mysterious plague sweeping the nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still going ahead with his doomed wedding tomorrow morning. That leaves him with a choice. Pick up the button holes and chocolate fountain as instructed by bridezilla, Elaine, or go with five mates (and a stripper) to play "Zomball" at a top secret military compound where you get to shoot zombies with huge stun guns. Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball ('never never humiliate a zombie') the stags face overwhelming odds from the massed undead and each stag is hunted down. The truth about Zomball is finally revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law is the least of Dean's problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, not serious, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, independent film, horror comedy, ridiculous
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Go Goa Gone (2013)
Plot Summary:
A rave party off the coast of Goa, goes horrifyingly and hilariously wrong when the island is overrun with zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, not serious, light, scary, humorous, entertaining, funny, offbeat, independent film, horror 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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Zombies Vs. Strippers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Tough Titty is about to go under after losing a lot of money and gaining no customers. After they bring together their staff for the night to declare bankruptcy and lay offs, little do they know that around them the city is being sieged by the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, not serious, sexy, scary, horror comedy, offbeat, independent film, psychotronic
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Buck Wild (2013)
Plot Summary:
A hunting vacation goes horribly awry for 4 friends after they accidentally shoot the lease's land owner.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, not serious, sexy, slasher, horror comedy, independent film
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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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Cadaverella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cinder knew her life was over when her father came home from a business trip with a new wife and her 2 daughters when she was only 6. When her father dies soon afterwards, she pretty much has to care for herself, as her stepmother whittles away her father's money and possessions. Cinder bides her time by hanging with her best friend Justin, working at the library with the unbearable Lenore, and crushing on Cash, the psycho who tends the lawn, until her 21st birthday, when she inherits the trust fund her father left for her. When she makes off with Justin's clay doll of the voodoo god Baron Samedi, the god visits her to help "make things happen" for her--including landing a night with Cash. Little did she know, however, that Cash was in cahoots with her step-mom to do away with her so they could get her trust fund money. Little did Cash and Step-mom know, that Baron Samedi was going to help Cinder get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Gangsters, Guns and Zombies (2012)
Plot Summary:
The whole "zombie thing" has been hyped up so much that everyone thinks it's the end of the world! Of course, where one man sees the dead rising from the grave, another sees opportunity. Q had a plan: drive the robbery getaway van, deliver everyone to the safe house and get paid - a nice, simple, plan. Unfortunately, life is never really that simple, and to top it all off, this is the first time Q has been a getaway driver. He's coping pretty well though, considering; TONY (the guy who is 'in charge' of the job) is a murderous nut case, DANNY was shot and is now bleeding all over the money in the back of the van, the Sat-Nav has a mind of its own, there's a guy in the back living up to his name "CRAZY STEVE", the safe-house already has police at it, and this whole "zombie thing" seems to be quickly becoming more of a "zombie apocalypse thing".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, rough, offbeat, witty, semi serious, horror comedy
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One Cut of the Dead Spin-Off: In Hollywood (2019)
Plot Summary:
This 59-minute feature was made for TV in Japan and is now being shopped around by Nikkatsu in advance of the film market in Cannes beginning in a few weeks. This feature was directed by Nakaizumi Yuya, supervised by original director Ueda and stars several of the key players from the original films including Hamatso Takayuki, Mao, Shuhama Harumi, and many more.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, funny, horror comedy
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Plaga zombie: Zona mutante (2001)
Plot Summary:
A small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks with some kind of disease, but of course it spread with disastrous results. And now, three oddballs have been dumped into the middle of this town as test subjects or something, and the race for survival is on. John West is a strongman, with a cowboy hat and leopard skin tights, Bill is a medical student, and Max is a mathematical genius, and it's them against the zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody, suspense
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Shed of the Dead (2019)
Plot Summary:
Trevor is 'between jobs'. He spends his days avoiding his nagging heifer of a wife by hiding out in his allotment shed and painting figurines for his wargames with his agoraphobic friend, Graham, and dreaming of his heroic alter-ego, the battle mage Casimir the Destroyer. When Mr Parsons, one of the other allotment tenants, petitions to have Trevor removed from his disgrace of a plot (he's not there to grow stuff!) an argument ensues that leaves Trevor with a corpse to hide. Unfortunately, this untimely accident coincides with the zombie apocalypse and Mr Parsons' return is just the beginnings of Trevor's problems. More pressing is whether or not he should try and save his wife and her beautiful best friend, who both he and Graham have a thing for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, suspenseful, tense, horror comedy, retro, psychotronic
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Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of college kids accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka ZEMONS!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: not serious, scary, humorous, suspense, scenic, horror comedy, slapstick, post modern
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Night of the Living Dorks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three not-so-cool school friends decide to try a old voodoo ritual. Later, they die in a car accident, but live on as zombies. But being a zombie has advantages, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, dark comedy, biting
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Warm Bodies (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, offbeat, teen, funny, cute, horror comedy, feel good, apocalyptic, sentimental
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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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Evil - In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on the end of the First "Kako" movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and shoot random moving targets (zombie or not). In the meantime we take small flashbacks into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has happened as well and we learned about how they faced them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, hilarious, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Plot Summary:
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, not serious, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, horror comedy
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Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Atom is an amazing zombie killer, has a horny girlfriend...and is the best bowler in the league! But don't tell that to Dario and the Slashers, the evil bowling rivals who will stop at nothing to thwart Atom and his buddies. When all of his problems come to a head, Atom must battle his worst nightmare--ZOMBIES! May the bloodbath begin! let's ROCK and BOWL in this outrageous horror comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, feel good, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, bizarre
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Dead Moon Rising (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious disease overtakes the world, and the infected develop a hankering for human flesh. Jim and his fellow Cheapskate Car Rental clerks are oblivious to the changes going on right outside their door, until it literally gets right in their faces. Jim struggles with disgruntled customers, hordes of cannibals, the barely legal April, his certifiable ex-girlfriend Vix (the sexy "Terminatrix"), reconciling issues with his brother, an aversion to guns, and the "pants thing." Can Jim pull it together and rally Louisville's remaining bike gangs and defeat the infected hordes? Maybe with the help of 1000 rounds a minute minigun.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, humorous, not serious, horror comedy, dark comedy
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Hide and Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspense, independent film, biting, campy
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Corona Zombies (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ditsy damsels in distress, toilet paper famine, inept world leaders, mass-media gone wild, a virus from Hell and hordes of ghouls hungry for human flesh combine in Full Moon's maniacal horror comedy hybrid CORONA ZOMBIES!.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, feel good, humorous, bloody, entertaining, apocalyptic, not serious, suspense, absurd
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Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
An evil force is awakened in downtown Athens transforming the unsuspecting citizens into raving zombies. The few survivors will have to fight hard for their lives. To the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, tense, captivating, horror comedy, psychedelic, suspense, hilarious, scary, exciting
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Kill Zombie! (2012)
Plot Summary:
The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, tense, scary, offbeat, not serious, campy
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Zombieland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zombieland follows four survivors outwitting zombies and searching for a place to call home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, humorous, horror comedy, road movie, scary, not serious, entertaining, campy
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 585000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, funny, horror comedy, spoof, parody, atmospheric, witty, scary
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, not serious, humorous, scary, horror comedy, bloody, entertaining, splatter, dark comedy, psychological
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Dead Set (2008)
Plot Summary:
During a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bleak, bloody, intense, atmospheric, cult classic, apocalyptic, spooky, biting
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Dance of the Dead (2008)
Plot Summary:
With Prom only hours away, the usual suspects of Cosa High (Cheerleaders, geeks, bad boys and the happy-go-lucky student council alike) are preoccupied with the annual rituals of teendom. On the night of the big dance when the dead unexpectedly rise to eat the living, polar opposite groups will be forced to unite in their final chance to save the town from the zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, parody, bloody, atmospheric, entertaining, horror comedy, humorous, suspense, splatter, funny