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Plot Summary:
A budding playwright and his wife attend a dinner party hosted by wealthy, cultural elites, who have promised to bankroll the writer's latest play to Broadway, but, in fact, have darker designs in mind for the couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, queer horror
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The Unseen (1980)
Plot Summary:
Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are booked for a holiday parade fair Jennifer is covering. But unknown to the women, some unseen "thing" has been living in the basement of the house for over 20 years and is looked after by Keller and his shy sister Virginia, in which the "thing" soon gets out and begins harassing and killing the women one by one in various violent, but seemingly accidental, means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, independent film, realistic, psychotronic, spooky
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Staunton Hill (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a group of hikers take off for a weekend of fun and adventure in remote mountain region, they unwittingly stumble across the Staunton family - for whom the hill is named - and find themselves at the mercy of a depraved, diabolical brood that will stop at nothing to rid their property of these "trespassers." The only law on Staunton's Hill is the law of the Stauntons...and, in this case, the penalty for defying that law is death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, dark, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic
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Goth (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two goth teenagers get caught up in a subculture of drugs, sex and murder after meeting a darkly savage woman with a taste for pain and deviance.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, scary, offbeat, realistic
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Killer Instinct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
Plot Summary:
During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living. In the remote Mexican village of Santa Bonita, a nightmare lay buried for over a century. But when a group of hard-partying students from the OC are stranded in this strange town, they discover an innkeeper with a dark secret (Laura Harring of Mulholland Drive) a sheriff with a shocking past (David Keith of Firestarter) and a holiday that demands the most horrific sacrifice of all. Now the ceremony can commence. The hordes of the undead have been unleashed. And on this day, an unstoppable feast of human flesh has begun!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, scary, tense
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Trespassers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. Colin gathers 4 friends and leaves for Mexico but is surprised that nor his brother nor his brother's friends are there. They start realizing that there's something wrong with the beach, a curse that says that no one will leave the beach alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Buried Alive (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, slasher horror, campy
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Slink (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the rural town of Wickenhaven, a psychotic tanning salon owner is responsible for the disappearances of many young, innocent girls, while his wife, an exotic purse designer, is willing to overlook his evil nature.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, slasher
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Rabid Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five recent college grads go for one last vacation in the woods during the summer of 1984 and one of them is infected with a mad scientist's synthetic rabies virus.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, retro, independent film, psychotronic
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The Maze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, slasher
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The Hitchhiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find themselves trapped with a woman-hating, masochistic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing, mockbuster, splatter, road movie
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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The Devil's Ground (2009)
Plot Summary:
While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with blood on her face. She gives a lift to the girl and listens to the tale of her passenger and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Omnivores (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marcos Vela is a prestigious gastronomic journalist who accepts the request of an independent publisher to write an article on the recent emergence of the Clandestine Restaurants.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, splatter, realistic
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The Forgotten Ones (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot. A horrifying action-adventure in the vein of Predator and Lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film, psychotronic
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Pray for Morning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To survive the night, the friends must solve a century-old mystery that threatens to annihilate them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, teen horror
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The Inheritance (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with open arms, but warns them to respect their family traditions. During the weekend, as each of the cousins mysteriously disappear, they learn the truth about their family legacy, blood ancestry and the ultimate sacrifice they must make in exchange for their beloved inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, independent film, black cinema
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Sutures (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon. He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also been hunted. Prey turned predator. The victims quickly realize that Alexander is just the beginning of their problems, as they find themselves enmeshed in a fight for survival against a sociopath business man and his demonic staff, who will stop at nothing to prevail in the sale of Black Market Body Parts.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Plot Summary:
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, independent film, awful
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The Butcher (2006)
Plot Summary:
A tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere finds six stranded college students fighting for their lives after making a horrifying discovery in a remote farmhouse in director Edward Gorsuch's rural frightener. With no place to run and no police station for miles, these doomed students are about to discover that down home hospitality is the last thing on the minds of the murderous family who stalks them through the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, serious, cult film, awful
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Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense, scary, sexy, serious, realistic
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Deadly Weekend (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film, bloody
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Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
Plot Summary:
San Diego, present day: The murders are starting again. A girl has been found with two holes in her neck and her body totally drained of blood. Lt Dan Richardson [Shane Pliskin] knows what it is but doesn't believe it, so he calls in blind art-dealer Micah [Gary Busey]. Micah confirms the lieutenant's suspicion that a vampire is at work and reminds him of the previous lesson learned by Jack Frost, who was forced to kill his best friend Nat McKenzie when Nat became a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, cult film
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Vampire Virus (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman contracts a deadly virus after an unusual sexual encounter, and soon develops a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, gothic, brutal, serious, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, erotic, psychotronic
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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Kill Theory (2009)
Plot Summary:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspense, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Train (2008)
Plot Summary:
This new Train tells the tale of an American wrestling team who board a train that just so happens to be used as a supermarket for organ harvesters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, sexy, brutal, bloody, suspense
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Wrong Turn (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, feel good, bloody, dark, cult horror