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Plot Summary:
A duo of gun happy redneck hunters stupidly break a sacred circle in a hunting spree, which releases the deadly wendigo. The wendigo kills many of the hunters gruesomely, leaving the chosen woman and a gun toting idiot to destroy the deadly beast.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, serious
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In the Woods (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out of the woods becomes a nightmare for the two men.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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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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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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Severed Ties (1992)
Plot Summary:
A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy, cult film
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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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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ThanksKilling 3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fowl-mouthed villain Turkie carves through the likes of a rapping grandma, a mindless puppet, a wig-wearing inventor, a bisexual space worm, and their equally ridiculous friends on his quest to recover the last copy of "ThanksKilling 2". Also known as "Turkeys, In, Space!".
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, scary, rough, slasher, christmas horror, horror comedy, bloody, exciting, independent film
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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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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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Mom (1990)
Plot Summary:
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, christian film, bleak, dark, independent film, scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, ridiculous
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Chaw (2009)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about the events that are set into motion in a town after a man-eating boar goes on a rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, offbeat, psychotronic
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Bubba the Redneck Werewolf (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cracker County is under attack and lovesick dog catcher Bubba Blanche has been transformed into a ferocious, cigar smoking Werewolf in order to save the day. But first he's got to conquer a beer or two. And maybe a plate of chicken wings.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Curse of the Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations. She desperately wants to live a normal life, and to break free from her curse, she flees to hide in the city. When the pack aggressively hunts her down, the bouncers offer her protection and band together to battle the werewolves who want her dead... and who won't give up their wolf without a vicious fight.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, rough, splatter
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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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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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Parts of the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, scary, slasher, campy
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Unseen Evil (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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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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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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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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Redneck Zombies (1989)
Plot Summary:
A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, cult horror, sexy, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher
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The Convent (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, suspenseful, slasher, harsh, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, serious, independent film
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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members. The undead have been given the gift of life and it's up to the janitor to take it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, offbeat, splatter, bizarre
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The Granny (1995)
Plot Summary:
Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, slasher
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Spookies (1986)
Plot Summary:
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, anthology, psychological, funny, retro
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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