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Plot Summary:
A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Blood Mania (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, psychotronic, twisted, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary (Cristina Ferrare) who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man (David Young) in her life as well as a mysterious man (John Carradine) in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark drama, surprise ending, neo noir, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Someone runs a woman (Katherine Barrese) off a beach road; she sleeps with a developer (Malcolm McDowell), his son and a sheriff to get even.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Murder by Mail (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Peter Fales’s (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annihilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars Marianna Hill as Julie, a syndicated “Dear Abby”-style columnist who also happens to be in one of Dr. Fales’s therapy groups. After she receives several ominous letters she not only wonders if Dr. Fales might be behind the killings, she also starts to suspect her estranged husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Double Exposure (1982)
Plot Summary:
A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher horror
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Bikini Island (1991)
Plot Summary:
"Swimwear Illustrated" is approaching its fifteenth anniversary issue. From a group of eager and beautiful young women, five are chosen for a photo shoot on an island off the California coast. One of the five will be the cover girl, and she'll get an extra $100,000. On the island, the group stays at an isolated inn, staffed by the odd Frab. There's him, the five models, and four magazine staff: photographer, make-up man, ambitious assistant Anesa, and Jack Denton, the playboy in charge of production. One by one, models and staff disappear.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, sexy, sexual, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, scary, serious, realistic
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Fleshtone (1994)
Plot Summary:
Matthew Greco is fascinated by death. As a successful artist, he paints gruesome portraits of murders and suicides. Yet, despite his success, he is unhappy and alone, he desires someone to share his fantasies with. In desperation, he answers a phone sex ad and becomes entangled with Edna; a woman who seems to share his morbid desires and strange needs. They decide to meet one another in person, but the rendezvous goes horribly wrong, when Matthew finds Edna dead – or is it Edna? The desperate Matthew is accused of her murder. Caught in a web of deception, he has no means of escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
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The Washing Machine (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, freeze frame, weird
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Plush (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young singer/songwriter, despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may be a danger to her and those close to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending, erotic, dark, independent film, twist ending
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Love Rites (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man meets a prostitute who takes him to a boudoir.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Deadly Embrace (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, crying, independent film, gay cinema
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Inner Sanctum II (1994)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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Indecent Behavior II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Reporter Shoshona Reed is about to expose a number of people who have a lot to lose. Unfortunately, her cunning ways of getting stories by blackmailing people gets her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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Illicit Dreams 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a man's wife dies, the new executive of his company makes a move. Though they know that sexual relations could cause problems, that does not stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic
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The Killing Kind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, slasher horror
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A Siren in the Dark (2009)
Plot Summary:
Cameron, a Police Officer with psychic abilities, is called upon to interview an accused teen in hopes of finding the whereabouts of the teen's missing gay lover. His investigation immediately spirals into sordid tales of drug abuse, sexual obsessions, and a mysterious man living on a deserted mountain road.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, sexual, lgbt cinema, crying, freeze frame, sexy
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Night Warning (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, bloody, homoerotic, detective, cult classic
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The Silent Scream (1979)
Plot Summary:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, creepy
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Night Train to Terror (1985)
Plot Summary:
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, retro, slasher, dark fairy tale, cult horror, classic horror, independent film, claymation, scary, atmospheric
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his arrival home murders begin to happen, is him the responsible?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, slasher horror, campy
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Black Serenade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, splatter, crying, psychotronic, detective, black comedy
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Wounds (2019)
Plot Summary:
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, exciting, captivating, bleak, psychological, dark, demonic, perverse, spooky
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Sublime (2007)
Plot Summary:
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological horror, medical horror, spooky, twisted, serious
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Massacre at Central High (1976)
Plot Summary:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Plot Summary:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, satanic, controversial, grindhouse, anamorphic, cult classic
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The Shout (1978)
Plot Summary:
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, slasher, mystic, deep, spooky
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Castle Freak (1995)
Plot Summary:
John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become the castle freak and is out to wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, independent film, gothic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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2 Masks for Alexa (1971)
Plot Summary:
Curd Jurgens as the betrayed husband is incredibly expressive and believable; Rosabla Neri, as the philandering Alexa, delivers her usual thoughtful performance and, in doing so, makes her potentially cardboard cut-out character multi-dimensional, and Juan Luis Galiardo, as Alexa'a heartthrob Pierre, also cares enough about his craft that he avoids the trappings of a potentially stereotypical character and, like Neri, makes him real and full of depth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychotronic, freeze frame, grindhouse