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Plot Summary:
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild
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Haunts (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman haunted by psychosexual nightmares begins to believe her father is responsible for a series of scissor-murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Blood Shack (1971)
Plot Summary:
A woman inherits an abandoned ranch whose estate is said to be haunted by "the Chooper," the sword-wielding ghost of a vengeance-seeking Indian, in this Ray Dennis Steckler shocker.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Scalps (1983)
Plot Summary:
Silly group of college science students go an dig around in an indian burial ground for artifacts. Unfortunately, one of them becomes possessed by the evil spirit of Black Claw so he must therefore slaughter all of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, wild, cult film
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Doctor Dracula (1983)
Plot Summary:
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Plot Summary:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, psychological, bleak
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Shriek (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, queer horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema, cult film
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The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird
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Demon Wind (1990)
Plot Summary:
We are introduced to 1931. A body is being burned on a cross, a woman named Regina is at a farm, and attempting to barricade a door, from where beyond, demons try to enter. Her husband George transforms into a demon instead and kills her.Sixty-years-later, after the suicide of his father, a young man named cory, the grandson of Regina and George, and his girlfriend Elaine, along with a group of ther friends, travel up to the farm, where the events took place sixty years before, so that Cory can figure out what happened to his grandparents. They sooon come under attack by a band of vicious demons and when the kids try to escape a mysteirous fog brings them back to the farm. The only good thing is that they are protected by a shield that prevents the demons from entering the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, demonic, creepy, cult horror, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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976-Evil II (1991)
Plot Summary:
After being bestowed with demonic powers following a phone call to Hell, a psychotic teacher begins a rampage of death and destruction in a small town, forcing a teen and her boyfriend to fight him off so that they can get away.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, independent film, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird, cult film
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Dead Clowns (2004)
Plot Summary:
The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, but they can't hide from the truth -- or the undead.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, slasher, independent film, ridiculous
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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Grey Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, bleak
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The Horror Show (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Plot Summary:
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, tense, serious, independent film, fast
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Zombie Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
There is a new evil, and you have no idea what's coming... When college roommates Mark and Tom go out for a night at the bar, the last thing they expected to find was a machete wielding stranger and a horde of the undead. With the help of amateur photographer and video store clerk Raven, the unlikely party fights their way into an epic conflict between the living... and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
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The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
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Dracula's Dog (1977)
Plot Summary:
Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird, cult film
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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Jack-O (1995)
Plot Summary:
A long long time ago a wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on the townsfolk that did him in, particularly Arthur Kelly's family. Arthur had done the final graces on him when he came back to life as Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man. The Kellys proliferated through the years, and when some devil-may-care teens accidentally unleash Jack-O, young Sean Kelly must stop him somehow as his suburban world is accosted and the attrition rate climbs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror, campy
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Plot Summary:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, spooky, independent film