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Plot Summary:
The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric, bloody, intense, thrilling, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Best tv shows and movies like Halloween Kills (2021):
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
Similar in 78%
Halloween Ends (2022)
Plot Summary:
Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister, tense, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy, surprise ending
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Halloween (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, the 11th film in the "Halloween" series, will ignore the events of all previous sequels, picking up 40 years after the events of the original film.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, tense, spooky, retro
Similar in 81%
Halloween II (1981)
Plot Summary:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, slasher horror, tense, creepy, cult classic
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher horror, psychological thriller
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, intense, creepy, teen, suspenseful, psychological, splatter
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The Forever Purge (2021)
Plot Summary:
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, disturbing, psychological, bloody, slasher, saga, splatter, grindhouse
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Jason X (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, entertaining, space horror
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Plot Summary:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, sadistic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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The Crazies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, splatter, creepy, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Plot Summary:
Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a group of 6 thrill-seeking teenagers into the childhood home of Myers. Cameras are placed all over the house and no one can get out of the house... and then Michael arrives home!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, intense, rough, serious, bloody, splatter, teen
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Halloween (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, suspense, creepy, stylized, rough
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Scream (2022)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic, bloody, dark, suspenseful, psychological, entertaining
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Terror Train (1980)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense, rough, psychological, suspense, creepy, cult classic
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See No Evil (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago -- band together to survive against the brutal killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological thriller, dark, controversial
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Plot Summary:
The legend of that creepy masked-man, Michael Myers, comes to life once again in this fourth installment of the successful horror franchise. This time, it's Michael's niece, Jamie, who can't seem to escape her crazy uncle. With Michael on the loose, Jamie enlists the help of good old Dr. Loomis to stop the murderer. This time, though, there seems to be no end to Michael's madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological, classic horror, surprise ending
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, suspenseful, psychological, slasher horror, saga, controversial, mystic
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Cherry Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, teen, independent film, bloody, suspense, dark
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House of Wax (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, gothic, serious, bloody, creepy, psychological
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The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Plot Summary:
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in addition to terrified teenagers, he meets a young boy named Tommy who has a special talent for horror masks and make up, leading up to a horrifying, bloody battle! Has Jason finally met his match?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful, spooky, teen horror, slasher horror, psychological
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, brutal, splatter
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Haunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, dark
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Halloween (1978)
Plot Summary:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher horror, psychological thriller, creepy, dark
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Plot Summary:
Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop the dark, devious and demented deaths that he unwittingly brought about.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, suspense, retro, dark, controversial, anime
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Hell Fest (2018)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the festivities.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, teen horror, grindhouse
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Split (2016)
Plot Summary:
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, mindfuck, dark, tricky
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Friday the 13th (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, brutal, splatter, teen, erotic
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, disturbing, suspense, stylized