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Plot Summary:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, teen, scary, splatter, cult classic, psychological thriller
Best tv shows and movies like Urban Legend (1998):
Similar in 78%
Splatter University (1984)
Plot Summary:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, suspense, bloody, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, serious
Similar in 88%
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
A massacre survivor (A.J. Cook) studies serial killers under a famous expert (Bruce Payne), but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, teen horror, suspense, grindhouse, perverse
Similar in 86%
April Fool's Day (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, twist ending, scary, suspenseful, humorous, grindhouse, surprise ending, bloody, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 82%
Graduation Day (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious
Similar in 78%
Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Plot Summary:
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean living. But, like the rest of the town, they're a little too perfect. When Steve's rebellious friend Gavin mysteriously joins their ranks, Steve searches for the truth with fellow misfit Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, scary, teen, disturbing, exciting, erotic
Similar in 75%
Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
Similar in 76%
Scream 4 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, teen horror, twist ending, suspenseful, creepy, splatter, brutal, bloody
Similar in 77%
Scream: The TV Series (2015)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, anthology, horror comedy, spooky, psychological, sitcom
Similar in 88%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
Similar in 86%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
Similar in 79%
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. But as things spiral out of control and the body count rises, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, grindhouse, retro, dark, controversial
Similar in 86%
Scream 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college students are killed in a theatre while watching the new film 'Stab', Sidney knows deep down that history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, twist ending, bloody, splatter, horror comedy, psychological
Similar in 75%
Sorority Row (2009)
Plot Summary:
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, creepy, teen, scary, dark, teen horror, twisted, psychological thriller
Similar in 77%
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to the island in time to save everyone?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, teen horror, suspenseful, bad ending, bloody, intense, teen, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, teen, serious, teen horror, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 87%
Valentine (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending, bloody, teen, serious, psychological
Similar in 81%
Scream (1996)
Plot Summary:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 381000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, bloody, parody, teen, spooky, cult classic
Similar in 90%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, creepy, rough, grindhouse
Similar in 83%
My Soul to Take (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy
Similar in 80%
Prom Night (1980)
Plot Summary:
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, sexy, bloody, creepy, cult classic, teen, tense, serious
Similar in 77%
Cry Wolf (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, intense, serious, entertaining, teen
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 77%
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen, bloody, teen horror, perverse, queer horror, realistic
Similar in 78%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough
Similar in 87%
Black Christmas (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
Similar in 88%
Final Destination (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, tense, bloody, creepy, splatter, teen, entertaining
Similar in 84%
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, twist ending, stylized, intense, suspenseful, brutal, entertaining
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 87%
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 443000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, surreal, twist ending, bloody, slasher, suspenseful, horror comedy, surprise ending, suspense