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Plot Summary:
Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, satanic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending, dark, slasher
Best tv shows and movies like Assimilate (2019):
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Bleed (2016)
Plot Summary:
It seemed perfect - a new house, a new marriage, a child soon to be born. But when Sarah and Matt invite their friends to celebrate, the situation turns deadly as they enter a burned-out prison on a ghost hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
Similar in 82%
Candy Corn (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, brutal, dark, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing, intense
Similar in 84%
Another Kind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of unprepared weekend hikers go missing while snowshoeing in the Catskill Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
The Witch Files (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, captivating
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House of Purgatory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their secrets and one by one uses them against the teens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, teen horror, slasher
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A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
Dark Image (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Baphomet (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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The Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Friends head off to the remote island of Martha's Vineyard to celebrate New Year's Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Slapface (2021)
Plot Summary:
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, psychological horror, spooky, independent film
Similar in 86%
Bloody Slumber Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
After Kelly broke up with Rick, her abusive boyfriend, her friends had a slumber party to cheer her up. As they are telling horror stories, there is a killer in the house coming for them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
A collection of gut-twisting and nerve-shredding tales, all Frankstein’d together to form a feature-length monster of the best and bloodiest in short-film horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cryptid (2022)
Plot Summary:
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
A House Is Not a Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben (Webb) and Linda Williams move the family into a dream home in a last ditch effort to save their troubled marriage. Despite their good intentions, they cannot shake the feeling that they are being watched by something. Their unimaginable fears are realized when things inside the house take a supernatural and sinister turn. Ben and his family flee for their lives, but it is too late. The house isn't finished with them, trapping the family in its labyrinth. The Williams must come together as never before to fight for their family, their lives and to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bonehill Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young couple become stranded in the woods where they encounter a werewolf and a house of horrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
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Central Park (2017)
Plot Summary:
School is boring, family life unbearable, and Harold and his high school friends have turned Central Park into their 'spot'. Unbeknownst to them, a revenge-seeking executioner prepares to kill them off one by one to pay for the sins of the father.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, teen horror
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I Am Lisa (2020)
Plot Summary:
A vicious and corrupt small-town sheriff and her deputies brutalise Lisa and leave her for dead in the nearby woods. There she is bitten by a werewolf and bestowed with supernatural abilities. Can Lisa retain her humanity as she exacts revenge and cedes herself more and more to the wolf side of her personality?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sadistic
Similar in 83%
Playback (2012)
Plot Summary:
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, interesting
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The Legend of Bloody Mary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game "Bloody Mary." Amy had stumbled onto a website on the Internet (www.marked4mary.com) about a witch called Bloody Mary and a game to summon her evil spirit. Now a senior in college, Ryan is reaching a mental breaking point from the years of stress and guilt from his sisters disappearance. His girlfriend Rachel frustrated herself at Ryan's emotional distance and self pity, calls for help to a former professor of Ryan's, Father O'Neal. Father O'Neal is both a priest and a archaeologist who decides to help Ryan end his tormenting grief by using his detective skills and wit to figure out what exactly happened to Ryan's sister, and uncover the truth to the Legend of Bloody Mary.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, slasher
Similar in 77%
KILD TV (2016)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a local horror movie showcase, used to broadcasting creepy stories of heinous killers, finds themselves trapped with a real killer among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Faculty (1998)
Plot Summary:
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, teen, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, entertaining, cult classic, teen horror
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The Devil Below (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, weird
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Face of Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a conspiracy. The night has just begun, as they embark on a survival quest for the ultimate truth.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Phantoms (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, lovecraft, serious, retro, dark, slasher