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Plot Summary:
A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter of the mayor try to stop it before it is too late and the warlock can reincarnate.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, independent film, mind bending, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like Night of the Scarecrow (1995):
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Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009)
Plot Summary:
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, independent film
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The Day the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is the son of an alien being.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense, comic
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Witchboard III: The Possession (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brian, an out-of-work stockbroker, is introduced by his landlord Mr. Redman to a new source of insider information: the Ouija! The Ouija makes him rich, but when Mr. Redman kills himself and Brian suffers a freak accident, Brian's wife starts noticing changes in her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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Shriek (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, queer horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema, cult film
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Plot Summary:
When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending
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Death Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she starts to become unhinged and her paranoia overtakes every aspect of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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Witchouse (1999)
Plot Summary:
On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky, slasher, independent film, serious, gay cinema
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Seedpeople (1992)
Plot Summary:
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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Hallowed Ground (2007)
Plot Summary:
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, spooky
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Mind Ripper (1995)
Plot Summary:
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation. With the door sealed from within, there is no way out.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (1994)
Plot Summary:
The puppets battle their most powerful enemy yet as they protect the new puppet master from the demon God that created the Secret of Life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark, controversial, cult horror, terrifying, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary
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Puppet Master 4 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there's a mysterious case containing the puppets of the "puppet master". When the puppets are brought to life, they help destroy the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, dark, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, serious
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Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, demonic, cult horror, terrifying, ridiculous
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War Wolves (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers serving in his unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolves' forces of evil and Ford's special op forces of good, are pitted against each other in the race to save mankind from turning into wolves.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, independent film
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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Scarecrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, bleak, splatter, cult film
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Life Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Forty years ago a supernatural force vanquished Brooke and Rhea, a sexy lipstick lesbian couple, after they committed an inconceivable murder. Now, on New Year's Eve, they'll rise from the dead. Still hot and still a couple, they're back as vampires. Enamored with their newfound power, it's no longer a question of whether they will kill again, but of how.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, christmas horror, queer horror, offbeat
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Larva (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for research. Later, he finds the same parasite in a creek and he summons the population for a meeting, warning that the cause might be the animal food. However, Fletcher Odermatt, the wealthy owner of the local Host Tender Meals that has been providing free animal food for the farmers, brings his lawyer Hayley Anderson and discredits Eli. When a huge mutant parasite attacks Eli and Jacob, they discover that the meals are actually an experimental genetic cocktail that is growing parasites inside the cattle and people. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, enigmatic, natural horror
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
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The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Jaws of Satan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, satanic, natural horror, independent film, serious, psychotronic
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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Puppetmaster (1989)
Plot Summary:
Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of the monstrous marionettes and set off to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, atmospheric, enigmatic, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic, demonic, psychological
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
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Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, futuristic, stylized, splatter, rough, serious