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Plot Summary:
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, cult classic, suspense, atmospheric, gothic, splatter, bloody, brutal, slasher
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Cujo (1983)
Plot Summary:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bad ending, suspense, natural horror, serious, psychological, splatter, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 88%
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspense, light, atmospheric, stylized, rough, suspenseful, exciting, splatter
Similar in 75%
Skinwalkers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, erotic, dark, psychotronic, sexy, unusual plot structure
Similar in 76%
Planet Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bloody, black comedy, grindhouse, splatter, exciting, scary, parody, horror comedy, cult classic, action packed
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Blade II (2002)
Plot Summary:
A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that would wipe out both humans and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, exciting, entertaining, suspense, action packed, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 81%
Jason X (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, entertaining, space horror
Similar in 88%
Unnatural (2015)
Plot Summary:
Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, slasher, scary, dark, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Plot Summary:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, sadistic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, bloody
Similar in 75%
Blood Red Sky (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, splatter, tense, captivating, scary, disturbing, anamorphic, perverse, mindfuck, thrilling
Similar in 81%
Vampires (1998)
Plot Summary:
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, rough, suspense, splatter, cult classic, exciting, stylized, gothic, retro
Similar in 85%
Feast (2005)
Plot Summary:
Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, suspenseful, exciting, horror comedy, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, bloody
Similar in 89%
Daybreakers (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic, tense, serious, suspenseful, bloody, splatter
Similar in 81%
Children of the Corn (1984)
Plot Summary:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, rough, classic horror, psychological
Similar in 81%
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, splatter, action packed, saga, apocalyptic, psychological thriller
Similar in 83%
Priest (2011)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, rough, bleak, gothic, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Sinister (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, twist ending, rough, dark, creepy, sinister
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy
Similar in 85%
Evil Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the discovery of a Book of the Dead unwittingly summon up dormant demons which possess the youngsters one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, splatter, creepy, demonic, atmospheric, rough
Similar in 81%
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, serious, dark, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
Similar in 77%
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Plot Summary:
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, dark fantasy, gothic, splatter, action packed, scary, serious, visual, suspense, saga
Similar in 81%
House of Wax (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, gothic, serious, bloody, creepy, psychological
Similar in 90%
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 268000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, apocalyptic, intense, cult classic
Similar in 84%
The Thing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 456000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense, dark, bloody, creepy, lovecraft
Similar in 84%
REC (2007)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, disturbing, creepy, frightening, psychological, atmospheric
Similar in 76%
The Strangers (2008)
Plot Summary:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, rough, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy
Similar in 88%
The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter
Similar in 78%
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
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The Mist (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 333000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, depressing
Similar in 90%
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, creepy, apocalyptic, intense, bloody
Similar in 88%
I Am Legend (2007)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 799000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, rough, serious, suspense, bleak