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Plot Summary:
Teenage girl is plagued by harassing phone calls. Her fear mounts when she's babysitting at a neighbor's home one evening and the caller rings her at that number.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, creepy, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Best tv shows and movies like Are You in the House Alone? (1978):
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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 90%
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Plot Summary:
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
Similar in 87%
You'll Like My Mother (1972)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant Los Angeles widow journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family, but she quickly discovers they're a very strange--and homicidal--lot. Director Lamont Johnson's 1972 thriller stars Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas and Sian Barbara Allen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Lisa (1990)
Plot Summary:
Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. Moffett) is Lisa's most charming target yet, but he's also the Candlelight Killer, who murders beautiful young women. Jeffrey Tambor co-stars in this seductive thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Detention (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
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The Neighbor (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Repentance (2013)
Plot Summary:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller, realistic, independent film, black cinema
Similar in 82%
Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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Secrets in the Walls (2010)
Plot Summary:
A single mom and her two daughters move from their cramped Detroit apartment to the suburbs but scratching, cries and shadows haunt their new home.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting, tense, thought provoking, touching, suspense, gothic
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Roman (2006)
Plot Summary:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
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The Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Simon Says (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, scary
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I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a California teen with an interest in the occult moves to a New England town, she finds that the town teens believe she is a witch sent to seek revenge on the descendants of the people who originally killed another witch a hundred years earlier. Things take a particularly deadly turn when they convince her to play a seer at a Halloween party where they will feed her information over an earphone about those who enter her tent, only she suddenly sees things beyond their knowledge or help.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Dead Tone (2007)
Plot Summary:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, realistic, psychological, suspense, light, detective
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Bad Reputation (2007)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl wrongly branded as the school slut embraces her 'bad reputation' and takes revenge on the kids who have made her life a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror, scary, realistic, independent film
Similar in 77%
Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
Plot Summary:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, bloody, independent film
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Bloody Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the murders by herself, she finds that she may be the killer's next target when she gets too close to some dark secrets of the camp which may lead to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, splatter, teen horror, surprise ending
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Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, queer horror, erotic, scary, mind bending
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, rough, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, depressing, splatter
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The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
Plot Summary:
When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to her very soul. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Molly is about to discover the truth of just who or what she is destined to become.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense, scary, slasher, scenic
Similar in 78%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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New Year's Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, rough, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, serious
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After Midnight (1989)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, psychological, mind bending, creepy, dark fairy tale, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
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When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, intense, creepy, teen horror, twist ending
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Carrie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, teen, scary, psychological, bloody, splatter, intense