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Plot Summary:
A disturbed young man is plagued by horrific headaches that he believes make him commit murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Suffer, Little Children (1983)
Plot Summary:
A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, student film, cult film
Similar in 86%
Vengeance of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Visiting his Grandpa in the small town of Harvest, Eric is haunted in his dreams by Julia, a ghost who falls in love with him, appearing first as a little girl and later as an adult. In the dreams, Julia reveals that she was burned alive and her mother murdered by hooded men. He is soon unable to distinguish these dreams from reality, and finds himself desecrating the grave of one of the killers, and burning alive those that are still alive, all while sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Legacy of Satan (1974)
Plot Summary:
A satanic cult chooses an unwitting young girl as its new queen.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 88%
Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, terrifying, independent film
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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
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Sinthia: The Devil's Doll (1970)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: she's wanted her father to love only her. Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but nightmares plague her so she seeks psychiatric help. The doctor asks her to describe a dream: it's long and elaborate with dreams within dreams of Lucifer, Hell, and her parents in various guises. To shed her guilt, the shrink recommends that she commit suicide in her next dream. In it, she falls in love with an artist who reminds her of her father, responds to a woman who finds her attractive, and celebrates her first school-yard kiss. The dream takes her back to her parents' bedside. Is any cure possible?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, disturbing, independent film
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Death by Invitation (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of the tribe, they are cursed to an eternity of old age with no chance to ever die. Now, in present day Los Angeles, their only hope to recapture eternal youth is the ritualistic sacrifice of a 16-year-old female virgin. Their existence is discovered by an investigative reporter and a young runaway child and this leads to an unexplained and terrifying confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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Lurkers (1987)
Plot Summary:
A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, weird, cult film
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Bloodbath in Psycho Town (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns two documentary film students who travel to a small, isolated town in the middle of nowhere to film a documentary about murders that occurred there. Soon they are stalked by someone who is afraid the students are getting to close to a close guarded secret in the town that led to the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, student film
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The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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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
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Welcome to Arrow Beach (1973)
Plot Summary:
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Blood and Lace (1971)
Plot Summary:
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, grindhouse, suspense, psychotronic, terrifying, independent film, scary
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Nurse Sherri (1977)
Plot Summary:
A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: medical horror, slasher, slasher horror, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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Satan's Blade (1984)
Plot Summary:
At a mountain resort, a local resident is possessed by the evil spirit of an ancient mountain man, and terrorizes a ski lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Cathy's Curse (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Satanic (2006)
Plot Summary:
Michelle wakes from an accident with no memory, then she has nightmares and people around her die.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Voices of Desire (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young woman recounts her claims that she was involved in a cult whose members were either murdered or committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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Last Rites (1980)
Plot Summary:
A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)
Plot Summary:
A busload of tourists stops in to visit a small European town. What they don't know is that the town is completely inhabited by vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 76%
Haunts (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman haunted by psychosexual nightmares begins to believe her father is responsible for a series of scissor-murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Child (1977)
Plot Summary:
A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spooky, terrifying, independent film, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, psychotronic
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Milo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under happier circumstances in the same town where it happened. They believe that Milo drowned in a river shortly after the murder, but soon learn that the demonic killer Milo has also returned, still a young boy, unchanged even after almost two decades.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, slasher, slasher horror, scary
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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
Similar in 77%
Night Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting the world via mass media.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film, scary, rough, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, cult film
Similar in 81%
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Plot Summary:
Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle (Lee Grant and William Holden). Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire - and the world. Meanwhile, anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, grindhouse, religious horror, demonic, suspense, satanic, creepy, suspenseful, classic horror
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Devil Times Five (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, cult classic, satanic, christmas horror, cult horror, terrifying
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Schoolgirls in Chains (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, controversial, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film