Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "rotting-corpse"

51. Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror

Residents of a small backwoods community summon the murderous demon of vengeance himself for revenge against a local mortician who wronged their deceased love ones, while a town physician seeks to kill those involved in its summoning.

Director: Jake West | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Doug Bradley, Douglas Roberts, Tess Panzer

Votes: 2,763

52. Criminally Insane (1975)

R | 61 min | Horror, Thriller

An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.

Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert, Robert Copple

Votes: 1,132

53. Across the River (2013)

92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The story revolves around an ethologist working in the remote woods, trapping animals and mounting cameras on them so that he can monitor their behavior remotely. The resulting recordings ... See full summary »

Director: Lorenzo Bianchini | Stars: Renzo Gariup, Marco Marchese, Lidia Zabrieszach

Votes: 1,660

54. The Living and the Dead (2006)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy, Sarah Ball

Votes: 2,459

55. Jar City (2006)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir

Votes: 5,634

56. Bug Buster (1998)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Killer cockroaches swarm a small lakeside community.

Director: Lorenzo Doumani | Stars: Randy Quaid, Brenda Epperson, Katherine Heigl, James Doohan

Votes: 1,158

57. Wake Up and Die (2011)

88 min | Horror, Thriller

Again and again, a young woman will experience her death by the hands of her unknown lover, only to wake up in the morning alive, yet aware somehow that she will eventually die once more.

Director: Miguel Urrutia | Stars: Andrea Montenegro, Luis Fernando Bohórquez, Deborah L. Sherman

Votes: 496

58. Deranged (1987)

R | 83 min | Horror

A woman kills a burglar in self-defense. The experience so unnerves her she begins to imagine that everyone is trying to harm her and begins to kill anybody who comes near her.

Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Veronica Hart, Jerry Butler, Jennifer Delora, Jamie Gillis

Votes: 507

59. Traces of Death II (1994 Video)

Unrated | 90 min | Documentary, Horror

The second installation to the bizarre shockumentary series Traces of Death.

Stars: Damon Fox, Jeff Doucet, Gary Plauche, Karl Wallenda

Votes: 391

60. Snatcher (1988 Video Game)

T | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Set in the mid-21st century, Gillian Seed and his trusty robot sidekick Metal Gear investigate the mysterious infiltration of deadly snatchers into the general population of Neo Kobe City.

Directors: Hideo Kojima, Shinya Inoue, Yoshinori Sasaki | Stars: Yûsaku Yara, Mami Koyama, Kikuko Inoue, Kaneto Shiozawa

Votes: 268

61. The Valdemar Legacy (2010)

104 min | Horror, Mystery

Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared... See full summary »

Director: José Luis Alemán | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Óscar Jaenada, Laia Marull, Silvia Abascal

Votes: 1,920

62. Satan Returns (1996)

95 min | Action, Horror

Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she's the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him.

Director: Wai-Lun Lam | Stars: Chingmy Yau, Francis Ng, Donnie Yen, Dayo Wong

Votes: 296

63. Get Mean (1975)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A wisecracking gunfighter is seemingly hurled through time and space as he escorts a Spanish Princess back to her homeland while contending with barbarians, Moors, evil spirits, a raging bull, and a maniacal Shakespeare-quoting hunchback.

Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Raf Baldassarre, David Dreyer

Votes: 497

64. Detective Story (2007)

99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kai Atô, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Pâko Hayashiya, Pê Hayashiya

Votes: 834

65. Biohazard 4D: Executer (2000)

19 min | Animation, Short, Action

In this non-canonical entry in the Resident Evil/Biohazard franchise, five members of the U.B.C.S. are sent to Racoon City to trace Dr. Cameron and, foremost, her research. However, the horrors they encounter are beyond their imagination.

Director: Kôichi Ôhata | Stars: Masaki Aizawa, Hiroto Torihata, Hideto Erihara, Tadasuke Ohmizu

Votes: 603

66. Terrorgram (1990)

R | 88 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Terrorgram" was an anthology of three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are "Heroine Overdose", "Pandora" and "Veteran's Day".

Director: Stephen M. Kienzle | Stars: James Earl Jones, Steven Field, J.T. Wallace, Jerry Anderson

Votes: 175

67. The Mummies of San Angel (1975)

TV-14 | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Una pareja de recién casados planean vivir en una antigua casa del barrio San Angel. El padre del novio le pide a Mil Máscara vigilar a la pareja. Quién está preparado para lo que les espera?

Director: Arturo Martínez | Stars: Mil Máscaras, Lorena Velázquez, Rogelio Guerra, Tinieblas

Votes: 39

68. The Ultimate Death Experience (1996 Video)

Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary, Horror

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Director: Lorenzo Munoz Jr. | Star: Skelter

Votes: 20

69. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Beast in View (1986)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A psychiatrist who is getting married receives threatening phone calls.

Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Stars: Janet Eilber, Cliff Potts, Tom Atkins, Joseph Ruskin

Votes: 104

70. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Night Creatures (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A reporter is drawn to a vampire-like rock star. Her friend and her boyfriend try to save her.

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Jason Blicker, Brett Cullen, Alfred Hitchcock, Ray James

Votes: 88

71. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975)
Episode: The Zombie (1974)

TV-PG | 51 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An old Haitian woman uses voodoo to resurrect her dead grandson to kill the mobsters who murdered him, as well as those like Kolchak who would interfere with her revenge.

Director: Alexander Grasshoff | Stars: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Charles Aidman, Joseph Sirola

Votes: 674

72. Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode: Luminary (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Frank seriously jeopardizes his relationship with the Millennium Group when he refuses to swear absolute loyalty to them and goes against their wishes to find a young man who disappeared on his pilgrimage to the Alaskan wilderness.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady

Votes: 355

73. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: A New Woman (1990)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A greedy wife tries to get her dying rich husband to give her the control over his buildings for the poor that she plans to sell. Inspired by Dicken's Christmas Carol, the husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

Director: Brian Thomas Jones | Stars: Linda Thorson, Tom McDermott, Dan Butler, Mason Adams

Votes: 82

74. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Museum Hearts (1990)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A lothario and two women he cheated on are trapped in a museum basement with the ancient bog body of a man-hating druid priestess, who worshiped Ceridwen.

Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick Breen, Louise Roberts, Sarah Trigger, Pamela Dean Kelly

Votes: 107

75. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: My Zombie Lover (1988)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

One night each year the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced zombie-hunting dad stand in the way of their happiness in this horror comedy.

Director: David Misch | Stars: Tempestt Bledsoe, Steve Harper, Ed Wheeler, Marcella Lowery

Votes: 307

76. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: The Farmer's Daughter (1989)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Aging traveling salesman hides from a thunderstorm in the farmhouse of a nice elderly couple and falls for their mysterious, young, seductive daughter obsessed with true love, whom they keep in the attic.

Director: Michael Warren Powell | Stars: Soupy Sales, Stephanie Phillips, Bobo Lewis, George Hall

Votes: 127

77. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: The Hole (1990)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

During the Vietnam War, two US marines and their allied South Vietnamese guide end up trapped in the maze of underground Vietcong tunnels haunted by the undead restless spirits of the soldiers killed in the war.

Director: David Severeid | Stars: Ahmad Rashad, Antone Pagán, Glenn Kubota, Mitchell McCormack

Votes: 129

78. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven (1971)

TV-PG | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.

Directors: John Badham, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Marty Allen, Ross Martin, Barbara Rush, Rene Auberjonois

Votes: 410

79. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Wish I May (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In the bayou, a man is somehow brought back from the dead, but he's still decomposing. The locals accuse his family of witchcraft. The team tries to help, but Hendricks, who's showing unusually high interest in the case, becomes unhinged.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 21

80. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Remembering Rosemary (1992)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Family

On Halloween, the only witness to a 10-year-old suicide case breaks her silence to announce "murder" which sends Maxine off to dig into a local history of the victim's life. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 99

81. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Only Sin Deep (1989)

Not Rated | 27 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A hooker learns that beauty is only skin deep.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: John Kassir, Lea Thompson, Britt Leach, Brett Cullen

Votes: 1,495

82. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: Beetles (1987)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Archaeologist Arthur Hartley is accused of stealing expensive artifacts from a museum, is warned of a curse that befalls those who touch the artifacts, but won't be stopped in his quest for wealth.

Director: Frank De Palma | Stars: Rod McCary, Sirri Murad, Donald MacKechnie, Colm Meaney

Votes: 221

83. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: The Last Car (1986)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A pretty university student named Stacey (Begona Plaza) waits to board a train that will take her home for Thanksgiving. However Stacey soon discovers there is something unusual and terrifying about the last car of this train.

Director: John Strysik | Stars: Begonya Plaza, Mary Carver, Louis Guss, Scooter Stevens

Votes: 403

84. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Lord of the Flies (2001)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Doggett and Reyes investigate a teenage boy who may have the ability to control insects and uses it to kill. Scully and a pushy, pompous, flirtatious entomologist assist them.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Hank Harris

Votes: 2,601

85. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Schizogeny (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenager becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's odd murder. Mulder is not buying it since the man was literally swallowed by the ground. After another parent is killed, the suspicion falls on someone close to the kids.

Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chad Lindberg, Sarah-Jane Redmond

Votes: 3,503

86. Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode: Sounds Like (2006)

TV-MA | 58 min | Horror

Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Chris Bauer, Matty Finochio, Laura Margolis, Matthew Burgess

Votes: 2,325

87. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Anasazi Cave/Devil's Triangle (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A team of archaeologists discovers a mysterious cave used by the lost Anasazi people, but whoever enters it immediately inexplicably drops dead. A boat with one man on board is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

Directors: Ken Girotti, Marc F. Voizard | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 27

88. The Young and the Restless (1973– )
Episode: Episode #1.8952 (2008)

TV-14 | Drama, Romance

Paul discovers a dismembered female body in the storage space underneath a stable. After Sabrina's death, Victor shuts down emotionally. Lily challenges Chloe.

Director: Sally McDonald | Stars: Jeanne Cooper, Jess Walton, Christian Jules Le Blanc, Michelle Stafford

89. Harper's Island (2009)
Episode: Bang (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

For his bachelor party Henry's friends take him fishing where they find more than fish. Katherine hires a psychic for the start of Trish's bachelorette party but the psychic reacts badly to... See full summary »

Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Gorham, Katie Cassidy, Cameron Richardson

Votes: 412

90. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Monk ignores his paying case for another case that involves a dead wife, victim of a hit-and-run accident, who was visiting from Nigeria.

Director: David Grossman | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,242

91. True Blood (2008–2014)
Episode: Beautifully Broken (2010)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Russell Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi, concocts a plan to consolidate his power; Eric remembers his past; Sam tests the strength of his family bonds; Tara finds an ally in shady vampire Franklin Mott.

Director: Scott Winant | Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten

Votes: 1,638

92. The Pacific (2010)
Episode: Okinawa (2010)

TV-MA | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The 1st Marine Division fight a determined Japanese force on Okinawa who prefer death to surrender and are indifferent to the lives of Okinawan civilians.

Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Noel Fisher

Votes: 2,374

93. The Triangle (2005)
Episode: Episode 1 (2005)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Shipping magnate hires a journalist, a female oceanographer, a psychic and a meteorologist to find out why some of his ships went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The survivor of one such incident realizes that his reality has altered.

Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Davison

Votes: 227

94. The Glades (2010–2013)
Episode: Pilot (2010)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Longworth's golf game is interrupted after a decapitated, unidentifiable woman is found in a creek. Longworth does everything he can think of to try and identify the victim and find the ... See full summary »

Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Matt Passmore, Kiele Sanchez, Carlos Gómez, Uriah Shelton

Votes: 361

95. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: 30 June 2010: Part 1 (2010)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Jamie Annett | Stars: Don Gilet, Diane Parish, Bunmi Mojekwu, Ricky Norwood

96. Dexter (2006–2013)
Episode: First Blood (2010)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Dexter is saddled with an unwanted conspirator, he is forced to make some hard decisions about her fate; Dexter wonders if Rita's death has awakened a darkness inside Harrison; Quinn enlists an old friend to look into Dexter.

Director: Romeo Tirone | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee

Votes: 4,521

97. The Borgias (2011–2013)
Episode: The Moor (2011)

TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, History

Sultan Cem of the Ottoman Empire arrives at Rome. Cesare declines his brothers request of using Michelotto. The Pope tries to decide who is to marry his daughter.

Director: Simon Cellan Jones | Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Joanne Whalley

Votes: 767

98. Dirty Jobs (2005– )
Episode: Bug Detective (2010)

TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV

Mike learns to collect forensic evidence by studying rotting, putrid, maggot infested, pig carcasses. Then Mike heads to the lab to see if his guesses about how long the pigs were dead is correct.

Stars: Mike Rowe, David M. Barsky, Troy Paff, Christopher Jones

Votes: 28

99. Lee Martin's the Midnight Hour (2008– )
Episode: Vengeance of Manalu (2011)

30 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In this sequel to the season three entry, "Drink the Blood of Manalu," a young man obtains the shrunken head of an Amazonian witch doctor which empowers him with telekinetic abilities-for a price.

Director: Lee Martin | Stars: Joseph Mumper, Robyn Wheeler, Patrick O'Lear, Amy Fischer

100. Lee Martin's the Midnight Hour (2008– )
Episode: Slaughterhouse Sorority (2011)

30 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Four college co-eds spend the weekend at a lonely farmhouse, where a game of strip poker leads to a lethal hazing and months later, a grisly mystery.

Director: Lee Martin | Stars: Jesse Nagy, Alana Kaniewski, Kelly Kirstein, Jason Dargo