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Plot Summary:
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Similar in 81%
The Manor (2018)
Plot Summary:
"The Manor," is the macabre tale of mental patient, Amy Hunter and the horrific events that follow her release from Psychiatrist, Dr. Tryvniak . Amy's mother, Jane feels it best to immerse her daughter in the warm, family atmosphere of Anders Manor, inviting Amy's long lost family to join them at the manor. The Manor, however, has deeper plans for the Hunter Family, as gatecrashers and cultists arrive as the nefarious and ancient demonic force, goes to work, in short order, to sew madness and reap blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
Nightmare in Wax (1969)
Plot Summary:
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 81%
Eye of the Cat (1969)
Plot Summary:
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Plot Summary:
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by Zsa Zsa. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to get the troubled girl to lead them to Zsa Zsa's missing diamond necklace.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 82%
Playroom (1990)
Plot Summary:
An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending, lovecraft, cult film
Similar in 85%
She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
How Awful About Allan (1970)
Plot Summary:
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, spooky, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Fear No Evil (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, spooky, crime thriller
Similar in 80%
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Helsford for advice.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, gothic horror, satanic, classic horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
Psychic Killer (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, suspense, sexploitation film
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The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
Plot Summary:
A delirious young woman (Glynis Johns) feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman (Dan O'Herlihy).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, noir, scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 87%
Reflections of Murder (1974)
Plot Summary:
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, spooky, crime thriller, thrilling, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, noir, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological
Similar in 75%
Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973)
Plot Summary:
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, spooky, psychological thriller, psychotronic, weird, cult film
Similar in 77%
Nightmare (1964)
Plot Summary:
Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, neo noir, noir, gothic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, black and white
Similar in 80%
Don't Hang Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Plot Summary:
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, atmospheric, fairy tale, dark comedy, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, terrifying
Similar in 84%
Bell from Hell (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, gothic, psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror
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St. Agatha (2018)
Plot Summary:
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing, spooky, odd
Similar in 80%
Scream of Fear (1961)
Plot Summary:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Plot Summary:
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic, odd
Similar in 89%
Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five young men convene on a mansion to meet the mysterious AMINA, who has lured them there to become her new consort in the immortal life of a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, gothic horror, cult film
Similar in 81%
Stepfather II (1989)
Plot Summary:
"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future wife and new stepson who love him, Blake eliminates anyone who stands in his way to building the perfect family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, classic horror, twisted, independent film, tense, rough, serious
Similar in 75%
The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A brutal serial killer is finally gunned down in the middle of carrying out one last heinous act of bloody murder. In the maniac’s possession, a box of Guatemalan talismans, which mistakenly end up being sold as charm jewelry in Chloe’s Collectables thrift shop. Soon those who bought the Worry Dolls begin to act strangely out of character and cause another rash of senseless slaughter. An ancient curse is consuming the city and pits a hardened detective against the clock to save his 8 year-old daughter’s life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychotronic, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, spooky
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The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
Plot Summary:
Massena, New York, 1998. A decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a woman who kidnapped five young girls and pretended they were her own. Only one girl, Christina Bowden, managed to get away with her life, the other four found buried behind Caulfield's decrepit home... 20 years later, Caulfield has escaped from prison and launches a deadly pursuit to finish what she began. Christina's seemingly perfect life comes crashing down around her as the secrets of her past come back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, mindfuck
Similar in 83%
I Spill Your Guts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two friends Dennis and Joe join the military together. While on a routine mission, the two are quickly surrounded by enemy fire. When Joe stands up in the line of fire to run, Dennis pushes him out of the way and takes a bullet in the throat. Dennis wakes up in hospital to find Joe rewarded as a hero. Joe told a lie and took all the glory, and Dennis was left as a mute from the accident. Dennis can't talk, but actions speak louder then words. The two return home to N.Y. and now the war rages in the streets. Dennis wants revenge on Joe, so he will kill everyone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Dead of Winter (1987)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, neo noir, christmas horror, twisted, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
Rift (2011)
Plot Summary:
Several college students are brutally murdered in a small college town an the killer is still on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, scary, funny, retro, bloody
Similar in 82%
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher