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Plot Summary:
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, mystical, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Anatomy 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors, under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings without any ethics or respect to the laws. The team is also volunteer to the experiences, and is under investigation of Paula Henning. When Jo gets close to a Filipino nurse, and becomes addicted in the drugs used in experience, he realizes the truth hidden in the methods used by the secret society in the development of science.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Needlestick (2017)
Plot Summary:
A desperate doctor locks down South Union Cardiac Hospital to keep the greatest discovery in human history to himself, while a young intern races to save a dying young dancer, his ex-girlfriend, and his best friend, and stop his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: medical horror, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, medical drama
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Patrick (2013)
Plot Summary:
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, suspense, psychological, mystical, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Hospital (2013)
Plot Summary:
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate for her senior class project. Unfortunately, she does not find ghosts. She, instead, finds Stanley... serial rapist, murderer, and psychopath. As the young girl becomes Stanley's new pet, a team of young investigators descend on the hospital to "hunt some ghosts." Stanley sees nothing but fun and games in his future. But, what Stanley does not know is that the hospital truly is haunted and the restless spirits there are not happy with what he has been doing.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, medical horror, captivating, slasher, retro, 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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Unrest (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, brutal, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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Heartstopper (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, scary
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Trackman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A perfect bank heist turns deadly when the robbers and their hostages flee to the abandoned underground subway station where they encounter the Trackman, a deformed madman that prowls the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, underground film, slasher horror
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Phantom of Death (1987)
Plot Summary:
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, terrifying, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter
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Left for Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
Five frat boys are stalked by a machete wielding maniac, after they are involved in a horrifying Devil's Night accident.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, offbeat, humorous, serious
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The Dentist 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town under a false name and takes on the responsibilities of the town dentist Things are starting to look up for Caine, until the day when he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. Just as in the first movie, this sends him back over the edge and into another homicidal rampage, with his unfortunate patients bearing the brunt of his hostility.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, dark, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
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A Demon in My View (1991)
Plot Summary:
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Paper Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, terrifying, independent film, sexual
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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 Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Blood Trails (2006)
Plot Summary:
The biker Anne has a violent one night stand with the supposed cop Chris after a minor infraction. Two days later, feeling guilty and traumatized, she decides to go hiking with her boyfriend Michael in the Whistler chain of mountains, a spot where bicycles are prohibited. When she sees Chris riding a bike, she tells Michael about her affair, and Chris unexpectedly kills Michael. Along the rest of the day and night, Anne is chased by Chris in a sick and mortal mouse-and-cat game.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspense, mysterious, slasher horror, awful
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Visiting Hours (1982)
Plot Summary:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary, bloody
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Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1991)
Plot Summary:
Carrying on the Prom Night tradition, this film begins back at Hamilton High School on Prom Night in 1957. As a young couple are enjoying a romantic moment together in the back seat of a car, they are interrupted by Father Jonas, a priest who slashes and immolates the lovers. Thirty years later, Jonas gets loose from the chapel basement where the church fathers had been secretly keeping him locked up and drugged. As luck would have it, it's prom night again, and group of four students have unfortunately chosen Jonas's hideout as their secluded getaway spot.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, dark, cult horror, teen horror
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Anatomy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, and uncovers a gruesome conspiracy perpetrated by an Antihippocratic secret society operating within the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, stylized, rough, medical horror, suspense, creepy
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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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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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Relative Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective, mystical, terrifying, independent film, mind bending
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
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Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher
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The Dentist (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, medical horror, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, slasher, classic horror, suspense, bloody, dark