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Plot Summary:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, creepy, cult classic, cult horror
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, sensual, queer horror, scary, slasher, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, terrifying
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Who's Watching Oliver (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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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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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may not be a vampire. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her, making her wonder: Are the visions real or is she slipping back into madness?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, slasher, creepy, cult classic, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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The Baby (1973)
Plot Summary:
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic, psychological, mind bending, clever, slasher, cult horror
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Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three bizarre horror stories ending with the story of an African doll out for blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, psychological, retro, suspense
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Fear No Evil (1981)
Plot Summary:
High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two archangels in human form (as women) take him on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, disturbing, slasher, satanic, homoerotic, informative, queer horror, independent film
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Images (1972)
Plot Summary:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher, scary, retro, psychedelic, offbeat, gothic
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Deadgirl (2008)
Plot Summary:
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic and soon realize she is anything but dead. Quickly the boys find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey testing the limits of their friendship, and forces both to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, tense, erotic, brutal, controversial, grindhouse, creepy
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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 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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Magic (1978)
Plot Summary:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, classic horror, psychological thriller, emotional
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Bad Ronald (1974)
Plot Summary:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, psychotronic, psychological thriller, disturbing, controversial
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The Burning (1981)
Plot Summary:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult horror, classic horror, bloody, creepy, spooky, terrifying
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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Plot Summary:
An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests begin dropping off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, creepy, cult classic, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Hungry Wives (1972)
Plot Summary:
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, demonic, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, phantasmagoric, independent film, scary, psychological
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Near Dark (1987)
Plot Summary:
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, road movie, dark, tense, creepy, suspense, atmospheric, cult classic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
The Sentinel (1977)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, satanic, slasher, surreal, disturbing
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Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her doctor/hypnotist lover hypnotize the geezer into signing his dough over to her. The old man dies while under hypnosis and is stuck in the limbo between the here and the hereafter. The door to the physical world is opened and the undead attempt to enter it. "Black Cat" is the story of Rodd Usher, an alcoholic photographer/artist, who descends into madness after he kills a stray cat that his live-in girlfriend Annabelle brings home. One murder leads to another, and the complex cover-ups begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, gothic, creepy, cult classic, slasher, scary, suspenseful, retro, dark fairy tale, twisted
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. It eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is the The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, splatter, detective, cult classic, frightening, religious horror
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Maniac (1980)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial, bloody, psychological, frightening, brutal
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Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Plot Summary:
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, sexy, rough, cult classic
Similar in 76%
The Addiction (1995)
Plot Summary:
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: philosophical, black and white, scary, psychological, art house, disturbing, suspenseful, dark, splatter, creepy
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Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing, black comedy
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, disturbing, bloody, creepy, dark, spooky
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Fright Night (1985)
Plot Summary:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandrige has set his sights on Charley's girlfriend (Amanda Bearse) in this clever spoof of the horror genre.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, cult classic, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, splatter, grindhouse