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Plot Summary:
The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, classic horror, bloody, slasher horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, cult classic, atmospheric, classic horror, slasher horror, controversial, independent film
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Hellblock 13 (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, queer horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Severed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, suspense, independent film
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Boogeyman 3 (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now she must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, demonic, perverse
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Sanctimony (2000)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, brilliant stock trader, bored with his existence, becomes a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense, erotic, independent film, slasher horror
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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Laid to Rest (2009)
Plot Summary:
A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hellbent on finishing what he started.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, bloody, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic
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Cassadaga (2011)
Plot Summary:
A deaf girl attempts to contact her sister during a séance, only to connect with the ghost of a murdered woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, touching, independent film
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Evil Remains (2004)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, exciting, tense, rough
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Sutures (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon. He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also been hunted. Prey turned predator. The victims quickly realize that Alexander is just the beginning of their problems, as they find themselves enmeshed in a fight for survival against a sociopath business man and his demonic staff, who will stop at nothing to prevail in the sale of Black Market Body Parts.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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No One Can Hear You (2001)
Plot Summary:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, tense, realistic
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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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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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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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
Similar in 78%
Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense, scary, sexy, serious, realistic
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Child's Play 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Eight years have passed since the events of the second film. Chucky has been resurrected once again and seeks revenge on Andy, his former owner, who is now a teenager enrolled in military school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, controversial, classic horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological
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Intruder (1989)
Plot Summary:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, retro, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror
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Hatchet II (2010)
Plot Summary:
Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, bloody, splatter, psychological, funny
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher horror, psychological thriller
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Curse of Chucky (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit might be a strange doll she received a few days earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, serious, bloody, brutal, horror comedy, dark comedy
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Candyman (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, rough, creepy, frightening, suspense, bloody
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 82%
Mummy Maniac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, funny, suspense
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The First Power (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young man born out of an incestuous relationship, after enduring an emotionally scarring childhood, gives in to the dark side of Satanic forces and becomes a weapon of evil. He kills with such ferocity that he becomes the main target of the L.A.P.D. Detective Russell Logan engages in a battle of wits with Channing in life and after death. It appears that Channing can't be stopped, but Logan has a few tricks of his own to match Channing's -"First Power".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, rough, bleak, serious, satanic, detective, religious horror, demonic
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, bloody
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher
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Dark Ride (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody, dark, grindhouse, teen horror
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, suspenseful, psychological, slasher horror, saga, controversial, mystic