Best movies like A Knife for the Ladies
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Plot Summary:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spaghetti western, slasher horror, wild
Best tv shows and movies like A Knife for the Ladies (1974):
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Inn of the Damned (1975)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, spaghetti western, wild
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La alacrana (1986)
Plot Summary:
Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror
Similar in 82%
Hatchetman (2003)
Plot Summary:
Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Curse of Blanchard Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
Victor McShane disappeared on Blanchard Hill in the spring of 1985. No one knows what happened to him... Twenty years later, a group of campers take a hike on Blanchard, unaware that a killer is on the loose, killing people without mercy. Two detectives are called up to Blanchard Hill to solve the mystery and locate the campers before they suffer a fate worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, detective, slasher horror, horror spoof
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Shallow Grave (1987)
Plot Summary:
Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness the local sheriff murder a woman. They try to escape before he murders them, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, road movie, suspense, vintage
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Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
Plot Summary:
Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
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Murder by Mail (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Peter Fales’s (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annihilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars Marianna Hill as Julie, a syndicated “Dear Abby”-style columnist who also happens to be in one of Dr. Fales’s therapy groups. After she receives several ominous letters she not only wonders if Dr. Fales might be behind the killings, she also starts to suspect her estranged husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Deadly Sins (1995)
Plot Summary:
New area deputy Jack Gales arrives on the island to find that a girl at the local Catholic girls school has been found dead. After investigating, he finds that students have been disappearing regularly for five years, about the time Mother Bernadette passed away. Gales and the Mother Superior's secretary Cristina work together to try and unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, detective, independent film
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S.I.C.K. Serial Insane Clown Killer (2003)
Plot Summary:
A couple of friends are chased by a killer clown in the woods during a weekend.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, ridiculous
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Bloodbath in the House of Knives (2010)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a harmless visit to a hypnosis demonstration turns into a roller coaster ride filled with dead bodies that start to pile up around poor Ivy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
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Death Valley (1982)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, offbeat, bloody, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Alpha Delta Zatan (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alpha Delta Zatan is set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a frat house, the film follows the increased paranoia between members of a fraternity as they start to disappear at the hands of a masked killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, slasher horror, queer cinema
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Cabin Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror, horror comedy, surprise ending, twist ending
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Attack of the Morningside Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
When desecrated corpses and ritualistic symbols start appearing, the residents of Morningside, New Jeresey, are thrust into an unreal world of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Scream (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Sweet 16 (1983)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, realistic, bloody, sad, creepy, independent film
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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Edge of the Axe (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deranged guy in a mask kills people with an axe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, bloody, suspense, disturbing, independent film, slasher horror, cult film, awful
Similar in 87%
Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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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
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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The Prowler (1981)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, gothic horror
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Last Girl Standing (2015)
Plot Summary:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic