strange Movie Plots
here's a collection of strange movie plots i've stumbled across at the imdb.
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the house.
Set 100 years in the future, women dominate society and men are the "weaker" sex, assuming the stereotypical roles of pampered women. A stay-at-home husband of a well-off successful businesswoman, Billie, is cheating on her.
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
A scientist, aided by an old hag and her two sons, kills virginal brides, steals their bodies, and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
American, British and Chinese secret agents battle the Japanese Black Dragon Society, a secretive ring that smuggles enemy agents into the U.S. disguised as mummies.
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him
A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality.
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry.
A gang of crooks has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful, but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.
When an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
A small safari in Africa is captured by a tribe of white jungle women.
A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.
An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.
Aliens arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One of their first victims is a young man, whose new wife soon realizes something is wrong with him.
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.
The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
A journalist takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle on All Hallow's Eve. During his stay, he bears witness to the castle's gruesome past coming to life before him, and falls in love with a beautiful female ghost.
A crackpot artist kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings.
Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president.
Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!
Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.
A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Hitler's Brain is saved by Nazi madmen, and is giving orders on a small tropical island.
A boy is given a ring by an old witch. He uses the ring along with a magic Christmas tree which grants him 3 wishes.
Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S.
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid at the local carnival. He soon comes to suspect the girl might be a real mermaid who draws men to watery deaths during the full moon.
Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious on an old deserted bomb site. After regaining consciousness, he realizes that he has no recollection of the previous three weeks
The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
The survivors of a nuclear war are taken care of by robots called "fleshapoids." One day one of the fleshapoids runs wild, kills its "mistress," and hides in the home of a human female, for whom it begins to develop feelings.
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
An undertaker and his two friends, who are restaurateurs, make business by going out on town and killing people; the restaurateurs use body parts for their menu, the entrepreneur buries the rest.
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who testified against him at his trial.
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
A biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects.
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400-year-old demonic Native American spirit.
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.
Medieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.
A noise enthusiast discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.
Spouses looking for silver in Mexico find a 300 year old severed hand driven by a demon.
A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
A newly opened campsite is terrorized by a primitive young man who begins killing campers to defend his territory.
A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.
Fed up of his wife's bad cooking, Donald kills her and turns to cannibalism to satisfy his appetite.
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
In a futuristic society, rebels fighting against a fascist state are aided by a group of roller-skating nuns called the Bod Sisters.
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies.
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star Wars, the plot is mostly unrelated.
A family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.
An alien determined to capture human females takes over a radio station to do it.
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
A public relations firm is really a front for a devil-worshiping cult that kidnaps young models to sacrifice to the devil.
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
Through pure luck, small town mortician Fred has discovered a serum that can revive a corpse for an hour at a time. Realizing the possibilities of his discovery, Fred plans to resurrect an army of the living dead to do his evil bidding.
A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.