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Plot Summary:
The night before Halloween, a teenage babysitter is stalked by a masked killer; but in an unusual turn of events, victim and victimizer begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, black comedy, teen horror
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Most Likely to Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, scary, suspenseful, teen horror, slasher horror, twisted
Similar in 75%
Trace (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends experimenting with EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) accidentally open a doorway allowing a powerful demon to enter our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
Similar in 82%
Bad Apples (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Hollow (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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The Final Curtain (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face the consequences for their actions.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
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Maniac on the Loose (2008)
Plot Summary:
A patient described as "Extremely Dangerous" has escaped from the local psychiatric hospital. Fearing that he'll lose his job if word gets out, the head of the hospital, Dr. Franklin Grimm, desperately attempts to cover up the escape. Meanwhile, there is a Maniac on the Loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Slaughter Daughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being left at the altar, Farrah has a mental break. When her mother announces her upcoming wedding, Farrah seeks help from her jailed love to plot out the perfect murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic
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One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, serious, awful
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Sea of Fear (2006)
Plot Summary:
College athlete Lance and his friend Tom meet Tom's girlfriend Kate and her friend Ashley in a marina to travel on a rented boat on a leisure trip. The Captain brings his navigator and first mate Joel and another unexpected passenger, Derek, along on the trip. Soon the boat is stranded and one by one the shipmates are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic
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Three Days in the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone love camping in the woods. It's usually a calm, relaxing getaway. For five friends, it's the perfect way to send off one of their own. Amongst the partying and debauchery comes something much more sick and depraved. The five friends find themselves hunted by unknown killers. With the woods working against them, will they fall one by one or will they survive the next Three Days in the Woods? Mad Angel Films and Wicked Six Productions show you a glimpse of the evil that lie within the innocuous. Directed by Matthew A. Peters and written by Mark Joseph Peek, Three Days in the Woods will shock and disgust you. We promise.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
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Fear House (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests Samantha's pledge, the remaining guests sink into horror. If they want to leave Fear House alive, this desperate group must act fast in writer-director Michael R. Morris's claustrophobic spook fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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Hallows' Eve (2013)
Plot Summary:
Years after a tragic accident leaves a young child scarred for life, the people responsible pay - with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Charles (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves in to their first apartment and encounters a red-headed freckled doll. Soon they discover that their home and doll reveal an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bloody, suspense, slasher
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Rough Cut (2013)
Plot Summary:
An Independent film director on the edge loses his funding and his marriage. In order to fulfill his destiny with no budget, he must set the scenes and abduct his cast. Film director or homicidal maniac? Castings open and he is the man to get you into the final cut!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film
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Return to Blood Fart Lake (2011)
Plot Summary:
Many years have passed since the tragic events at Blood Fart Lake, where Jimmy dispatched a bunch of party going, cabin dwelling kids before he could be stopped by Ben Scrivens & his red neck pal, Leo Dechamp. Now Jimmy has returned, this time preying on a group of "Spirit Hunters" searching for the truth to his killings, & Ben must track down Leo before they're added to his list of victims!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spoof, horror comedy
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
Similar in 78%
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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Fright Fest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Blood runs rampant on Halloween night when a small towns' Fright Fest becomes real inside the walls of a long abandoned asylum.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, captivating, suspense
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Trick (2019)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic, splatter, detective, independent film
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Bastard (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, disturbing, perverse, bizarre
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Condo Hell (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer stalks guests during an open house weekend at a giant secluded luxury condominium estate.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Giving Up Forever (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Adolf, a 38 year old man with a history of being rejected by women seeks revenge against the people who have bullied him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological horror
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The Summoning (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends set out on a road trip to "the party of the century" in the middle of nowhere, but on the way, they break down and find themselves being hunted for a satanic ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, slasher, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, teen horror
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You Are Not Alone (2014)
Plot Summary:
"An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare ... With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to be woken moments later by a loud knock on the door. Experience one night of terror, through Natalie’s eyes as she fights to escape a relentless, knife-wielding maniac …".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Maneater (2009)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scenic, scary, slasher
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Blood Widow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic
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Nailbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky