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Plot Summary:
Based on the short story by Stephen King, this tells the tale of trucks suddenly coming to life and attacking their owners.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, scary, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, spooky, nostalgic
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The Unseen (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact that he is becoming invisible.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, exciting, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, spooky, queer horror
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Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska - only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possessed children. As she digs deeper, she discovers a dark secret about her grandmother and awakens a dark, demonic force that wants Jamie dead and will stop at nothing.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting, captivating, scary, pastoral, cult horror, classic horror
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The Hearse (1980)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, tense
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Super Hybrid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it's a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning -- and outwitting -- humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher, independent film, fast
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Alien Predator (1986)
Plot Summary:
3 young friends are on vacation in Spain, until weird things begin to occur and then a man from NASA tells them what's really going on: Dangerous Alien Organisms from the Apollo 14 Moon Mission, which was tested on animals on SkyLab. But then the organisms fell to earth with SkyLab and they are now starting to infect people by brutally killing them off. And these 3 friends and NASA scientist must get an antidote from a NASA Lab nearby and save themselves and the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, scary, apocalyptic, surprise ending, offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, black comedy, serious, psychotronic, slasher, horror comedy
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Black Cadillac (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, road movie, suspense, corny
Similar in 88%
Road Train (2010)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, psychological, twist ending
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Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (2008)
Plot Summary:
While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest of Bobby but the car breaks down. They find a house in the middle of nowhere and decide to take the car parked in the house's garage to the next city.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, road movie, rough, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter
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The Car (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it becomes the job of Captain Wade Parent (James Brolin) to stop the murderous driver.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, psychotronic, road movie, experimental, satanic
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Desperation (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, demonic, splatter, lovecraft, cult horror, crying
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The Wraith (1986)
Plot Summary:
Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with his girlfriend, a mysterious power creates Jake Kesey, an extremely cool motor-biker who has a car which is invincible. Jake befriends Jamie's girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie's sweet brother Bill under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis couldn't; eliminate Packard's criminal gang the hard way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, cult classic, road movie, retro, dark, art house, sexual, action thriller
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Swamp Devil (2008)
Plot Summary:
SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (played by Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (portrayed by the venerable Bruce Dern). After a long estrangement from her father for reasons not entirely clear, Melanie returns to her childhood home of Gibbington, Vermont to confront the realization that her father is wanted for murder. As Melanie digs a little more deeply into the stories of the past, she uncovers a tale wound about the town like Spanish moss, that is composed of secrets and lies, murder and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, computer animated
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House at the End of the Street (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, slasher, twist ending, serious, sexy, surprise ending, scary, creepy
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Firestarter (1984)
Plot Summary:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, cult classic, retro, mind bending
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Carrie (2002)
Plot Summary:
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, teen horror, psychological, slasher, creepy, cult classic
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, rough, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, depressing, splatter
Similar in 84%
Severed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, splatter, serious
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Bottom Feeder (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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Demonic (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, demonic, grindhouse, disgusting, bleak
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The Thompsons (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, psychological, gothic, dark
Similar in 79%
Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror, apocalyptic, tech noir, scary, surprise ending
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, suspense, dark, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, scary, cerebral
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Night Shadows (1984)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, grindhouse, creepy, campy
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Phantoms (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, lovecraft, serious, retro, dark, slasher
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, slasher, apocalyptic, cult horror, mind bending, epic, mysterious
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The Blob (1988)
Plot Summary:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic
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Christine (1983)
Plot Summary:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, atmospheric, slasher, creepy, grindhouse, classic horror
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Plot Summary:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, rough, classic horror, psychological
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The Mist (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 333000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, depressing