Best movies like Fright House
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Plot Summary:
Everyone in town knows the old Vincent place is haunted, but when the local Frat inherits it, we find out if the rumors are true. Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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Vampires (1986)
Plot Summary:
The students at a private girls' school are unaware that the school's doctor is secretly using a machine to extract the energy from the young girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Night Terror (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man is plagued by recurring nightmares, and when he wakes up he finds that the nightmares he just dreamed of keep coming true.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 78%
V/H/S/99 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, mumblecore, splatter, social
Similar in 76%
Burned At The Stake (1982)
Plot Summary:
In 1692 a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, accuses several residents of being witches, and they are burned at the stake. In 1980 a young woman who is a descendant of the accuser finds herself having recurring nightmares about the incident and comes to believe she is being terrorized by the ghost of the father of the women who were burned as witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 81%
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, offbeat, suspense, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Watcher in the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
House of the Black Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 89%
Witchcraft V: Dance with the Devil (1993)
Plot Summary:
An evil warlock takes over a rock club. He uses beautiful, large-breasted and frequently nude women to try to collect enough souls so that he may be able to bring Satan to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rock musicians are selling their souls to the devil for fame and fortune. An attorney with magical powers attempts to stop it.Rock musicians are selling their souls to the devil for fame and fortune. An attorney with magical powers attempts to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 76%
Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Zap (2002)
Plot Summary:
After losing one of their members to graduation, a sorority of altruistic witches must choose a new student for their coven. When Alexis is spurned for the spot, she immediately exacts revenge on the sorority by killing them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, dark comedy
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The Possessed (1977)
Plot Summary:
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spooky
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Witchouse III: Demon Fire (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves her abusive boyfriend to go and stay with her two best friends, documentary makers Stevie & Rose. After an evening of sipping wine in the hot-tub, the three women decide to dabble in a bit of black magic as part of Stevie's latest project, an in-depth expose on contemporary witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Eternal Evil (1985)
Plot Summary:
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Blood Bath (1975)
Plot Summary:
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
Similar in 89%
Rock-A-Die-Baby (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother tells her daughter three scary bedtime stories. A small platoon in the jungles of Vietnam encounter a horror other than the war, a group of college friends decide to play a prank on a prudish girl they know from school, and the woman tells her daughter about what happened shortly after she and the girl's father were married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Chillers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Five passengers in a bus depot are waiting for a bus that is overdue. To pass the time, they start telling each other horror stories.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, grindhouse, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Witching (2016)
Plot Summary:
With Halloween only hours away, the members of a popular podcast, The Witching Hour, gather to swap scary stories in the dark. But they bargain for more than just ratings when they venture to the site where the Woodland Valley Witch was brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Spectre (1977)
Plot Summary:
Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian's debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: satanic, detective, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Actress Shirley Latanya Jones returns from the director's first film (Black Devil Doll from Hell) to be in front of Turner's camcorder, and reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby. The second story features a zombie clown from Hell. When we finally return to Shirley, she kills her hot-headed boyfriend, and there's a bloody finale as the cops arrive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 75%
The Witches' Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple traveling thorugh the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 85%
Curandero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, suspense, perverse, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
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Witchcraft VII: Judgement Hour (1995)
Plot Summary:
Will Spanner is at it again battling sex starved beautiful demon vampires in the seventh installment of this series. Will enlists the help of cops Lutz and Garner to bring down the evil vampire Martin and his beautiful erotic demonic slaves.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 75%
The Touch of Satan (1971)
Plot Summary:
A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Melissa grow closer as Melissa begins to reveal the strange, dark history of her family.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, realistic, dark fairy tale, asian horror
Similar in 79%
Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973)
Plot Summary:
Novice witch Cindy is transported into a world of safe sex by the voice of Abigail from the 17th century.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, weird
Similar in 82%
Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the macabre footsteps of the first VAULT OF TERROR installment, this sequel anthology film tells six more evil, demonic, hellish tales of dread and horror by some of the genre's best filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, dark fairy tale
Similar in 87%
Tom Holland's Twisted Tales (2014)
Plot Summary:
Horror legend Tom Holland dares you to join him for nine nerve-shredding, totally Twisted Tales. Serving up a mind-bending assortment of the macabre, it’s an anthology fine-tuned to keep you on the edge of your seat. A new drug offers users a glimpse of the future… with beastly consequences. A murderous husband is stalked by his own cell phone. A jilted lover wreaks satanic vengeance. The nightmarish action then leads to worlds haunted by dark magic, demonic possession, vampires, witches and more in this seriously freaky festival of fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark, psychotronic, scary, psychological, slasher, dark fairy tale, slasher horror