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Plot Summary:
Woke Up Dead is an American horror/comedy web series starring Jon Heder as a young man who awakes in a full bathtub after 'drowning' and has no heartbeat, prompting his friends to believe him to be a zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like Woke Up Dead (2009):
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Tamagawa Ward Office of the Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in a place where zombie's existence are commonplace. Shinsuke Akaba (Kento Hayashi) works in the special welfare division at the Tamagawa City Office. His job is to deal with zombies and catch zombies. His life is boring, but, one day, a pretty woman is assigned to work in the same division.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Trippin' (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of three friends head to a cabin in the woods for the weekend. On their way they discover an arm in the road, blood coming from something wrapped in the back of a truck, and other strange things that unfold before their eyes. They plan on a weekend of partying, boozing, drugs and sex. Of course there is a campfire tale of a killer in the woods, the kids get split up, and the blood starts to flow.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: China, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, underground film, independent film
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Eat Me! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Stoner band mates escape Brooklyn after a mysterious blackout strikes, transforming everyone above ground into zombies. Hilarious complications arise.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic
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Overtime (2011)
Plot Summary:
Raph and Max only kill bad guys, and only after their boss Sam, a high-powered attorney, has cashed a nice paycheck for getting her sleazy clients off the hook. When Sam sends our heroes on a routine hit, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy they never imagined. But whatever trouble they've gotten themselves into is nothing compared to the wrath of Raph's wife if he doesn't make it home in time for his son's birthday party. Being a good hit man is tough; being a good dad is killer!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, spoof, exciting, suspenseful, parody
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Pot Zombies (2005)
Plot Summary:
Radioactive weed turns people into zombies with the munchies for human flesh!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Shock Value (2014)
Plot Summary:
Struggling 'B' movie Director blackmails a serial killer to be the star of his next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, horror comedy
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Harold's Going Stiff (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lonely pensioner, Harold Gimble, has become the first man to suffer from a new neurological disease that is slowly turning him into a zombie-like state. Harold’s hermit-like existence is shaken up when a vivacious nurse, Penny Rudge, is sent along to alleviate his stiffness. Her ‘special’ massage techniques work a treat on Harold and they become close friends. Harold agrees to trial a possible cure for the disease at a private institute, and the initial results are excellent. But the following day he’s in an even worse state than before, and after Penny accidentally overhears the doctor’s dire prognosis for Harold she decides to sneak him away the next morning. Word soon gets out, and before long a small group of bloodthirsty thugs are pursuing Harold and Penny across dramatic moorlands in the hope of a kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, offbeat, horror comedy, fake documentary
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Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, realistic, horror comedy, scary, independent film, horror spoof, campy
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Bite Me (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three Gamers. One Outbreak. No Continues. Follow three gamers as they find themselves in the midst of a real life zombie outbreak. Relying only on the knowledge and skills they have accrued over years of gaming, these guys will have to drop the controller and pick up anything that they can use as a weapon. If they can survive, these unlikely heroes may just be humanity's best hope of surviving the undead uprising. (And, with any luck, they may also be able to impress the hot girl from across the street while they're at it!) But first, they'll have to battle zombie Craigslist freaks, zombie milfs (Zilfs) and an entire onslaught of a freshly lifeless undead monsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, not serious, horror comedy, offbeat, independent film
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The Taming of the Shrews (2009)
Plot Summary:
A horror-comedy of errors, Die-ner (get it?) explores the existential dilemma of a sociopath killer who runs into the unique problem of his victims rising from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, realistic
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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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Corpses (2004)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense, humorous, independent film
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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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Splatter (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jonny Splatter (Corey Feldman) had it all -- fame, fortune and rock-and-roll immortality. But now he's dead by his own hand, and a small circle of supposed friends (one of whom is played by Tony Todd) have gathered to hear his last will. Somehow Jonny lives on even after a bullet to the brain, and the five people he's brought to torment from beyond the grave will be able to testify to his cruelty. This is legendary producer Roger Corman's first foray into webisodic content.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense
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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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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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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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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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Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Gingerdead Man seeks revenge against Sarah Leigh for causing him to live his life in the body of a gingerbread man. Her only hope is to team up with Larnell who has problems of his own in the form of a magical talking bong named Eebee.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, exciting, rough, humorous, suspenseful, christmas horror, horror comedy, erotic, retro, cult horror
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Bong of the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, splatter
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April Apocalypse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone's favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silence. And then April moves out of the state. She's his best friend and support since kindergarten and the love of his life. Three years later Artie finally has the courage to take to the road and go see April to tell her how he feels about her. One car-crash later Artie wakes up in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But this time he's not going to hide. Artie's love for April doesn't give him wings, but does give him the courage to hack, slash, punch and kick himself a part towards the girl he loves. Time is of the essence, because that bite on his hand will make the difference between a French kiss and a bite out of April's brains.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, horror comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Plot Summary:
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, light
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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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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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Dead and Gone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A struggling actor moves his comatose wife to their isolated cabin, where he begins to have disturbing interactions with the unconscious woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, exciting, semi serious, suspense, offbeat, realistic, independent film, campy
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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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Aaah! Zombies!! (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brain freeze has never been so bad once you’ve tasted Ale Cream, as four friends inadvertently eat some radioactive ice-cream, turning them into zombies. Only problem is they don’t see themselves as the undead, but as super soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, suspense, humorous, suspenseful, tense, horror comedy, scary, semi serious, bizarre
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Death Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California's San Fernando Valley. The Undead Task Force (UTF) was created to combat the emergence of monsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, not serious, exciting, humorous, dark comedy, detective, psychological, funny, gothic, sitcom
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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