Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore parodies and films playfully reworking familiar conventions.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,080 films · Page 29.
Parodie, Vampirfilm, Werewolf, comedy horror
When lovely young Stella (Meredith Host) strikes up a romance with pale, brooding vampire Edgar Mullens (Kurt Indovina), the couple must navigate the treacherous waters of human-undead love and fend off the amorous advances of a werewolf n…
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Komödie, comedy film
Brenda and Yvonne, two girls from the North of England, arrive at St Pancras railway station in London to seek fame and fortune. However, their image of the city is quickly tarnished when they realise that they cannot pay for their meals i…
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comedy film
Vic DeSalvo and his brother Goody are successful New Jersey trucking magnates but Vic has a desire to make it big as a Hollywood producer. He hawks his scripts and ideas from one network executive to another, but he is turned down at each …
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Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy horror, parody film
The film opens with two short sequences before the main story line begins, first a prologue, and then a mock television advertisement. In the prologue, a seemingly helpless young woman is pursued by Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and Freddy …
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Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, comedy film, fantasy film
The film opens with a trio of Dungeons & Dragons characters facing the final villain. However, they are quickly killed and the players blame the game master, Lodge, claiming he did not follow the rules and plotted against them. While Leo a…
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comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, parody film, slasher film, splatter film
Fuad Ramses III returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the suspicions of Detective Loomis who was the young investigating officer during his grandfather’s notorious murder spree in 1963. When Fu…
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parody film
The movie opens with a black man molesting a white man who has trouble remembering events for more than 15 minutes at a time. The film then cuts forward in time to two talkative hitmen, Sam (Neil Barton) and Harvey (Eric Hoffman), who mist…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, superhero film
Batwoman enjoys the services of several young female agents known as Batgirls in her pursuit of justice. Her archenemy is a masked villain named Rat Fink. Added to the mix is the president and vice president of the Ayjax Development Corpor…
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parody film
After learning about the "Hip Hop Witch", a powerful supernatural being that lurks in the ghettos and attacks upcoming rappers which makes their record sales go up, five suburban teenagers go on a quest to get their rap careers started by …
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horror film
While at his family's lakeside lodge in northern Wisconsin, six-year-old Peter van Cleese witnesses his grandfather mysteriously become overtaken by an apparent supernatural force while listening to a reel-to-reel tape player and fishing o…
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Parodie, Secret Agent, parody film, science fiction film
Financed by Red China, a Brazilian industrialist plans to sterilize the United States through massive doses of radiation courtesy of his satellite. He double crosses the Chinese by scheming to sterilize the entire Earth, then personally re…
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pirate film
In the seventeenth century, pirate captain Ras Mohammed, accompanied by his incompetent Irish cook Dick Scratcher and three crewmen, buries three chests of treasure on an unnamed island. Scratcher then kills the captain and three crewmen. …
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Parodie, Secret Agent, parody film, spy film
Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his assistant seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles …
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LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick) is a washed-up, alcoholic, aging C-List actress (star of kinetoscope, stage, television, and film in such works as the TV special Christmas Evie, vaudeville-era appearances promoting Dr. Vim's Miracle Elixir, Co…
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comedy film
In contrast to Buñuel's story, Savages starts when a tribe of primitive "mudpeople" performing a sacrifice encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Westchester estate in…
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comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
On a snow-covered mountain, a bus, truck, and a few cars arrive at a remote camp area to film a porno film. The group is made up of professional porn actors Ron Jeremy and Veronica Hart, novice porn stars Rock, Angel, Wanda, and Lance, as …
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Komödie, Monster Film, Parodie
The film is a reversal of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, about a malformed doctor who drinks a potion and becomes a handsome (and violent) ladies' man.
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parody film
Komödie, parody film
Set in the 1930s, Bullshot follows the absurd adventures of Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond, a dim-witted but overconfident British hero, as he attempts to rescue Professor Fenton and stop the evil Count Otto von Bruno and Lenya von Bruno…
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Komödie, Pirate Film, parody film, pirate film
A pirate captain known as the Hook (Victor McLaglen) buries his treasure on an island and kills the map maker so no one else will find it. He and his cut-throat crew go after the Mary Ann, a ship on which Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) …
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Political Satire, Splatstick, comedy film
Mr. Freedom is a Washington D.C. police officer who drinks Colt 45 on duty and moonlights as a government-sanctioned, vigilante superhero.
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Occult Horror, horror film, parody film, thriller film
Jack and Melissa Vales become increasingly frightened as their young son, Nathan, expresses violent and bizarre behavior; what the couple soon learn is that their son's upcoming birthday of November 11, the Apocalypse will occur and Nathan…
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comedy film
Cynical ad executive B. D. Tucker (Loretta Swit) is desperate not to lose the account of the financially ailing Norbecker Brewery.
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Drama, Musical, Mysterie, drama film, musical film
The movie begins with the unnamed male protagonist in a car with a driver. The driver attempts conversation with the protagonist before deciding to pull over as he believes the engine is malfunctioning. While he is inspecting the engine, t…
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