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Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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Death of the Jackal (1984)
Plot Summary:
A psycho-killer is on the loose targeting only young women. Grisly deaths pile up, one after another. The real problem is not finding out who he is, but instead, how to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, splatter, slasher horror
Similar in 77%
Bits and Pieces (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, picking out young beautiful women as his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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The Inherited (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. Between incest and murder lies his future, if he can survive long enough to embrace his destiny. The old adage proves true. Nothing in life is free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Sawbones (1995)
Plot Summary:
An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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Blood Voyage (1976)
Plot Summary:
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
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Disconnected (1984)
Plot Summary:
Twin sisters are implicated in a series of slasher murders. The question is, did one of them do it, did both of them do it, or did neither of them do it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, retro, tragic ending, independent film, cult film
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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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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Deadly Intruder (1985)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Hollow (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman with early signs of Alzheimer's begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. She uncovers something sinister is observing her every move.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Hayride (2012)
Plot Summary:
A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, intense, atmospheric, suspense, serious, realistic
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Laser Moon (1993)
Plot Summary:
A radio DJ helps two police detectives hunt down a serial killer who kills women using a surgical laser instrument during every full moon and whom makes taunting phone calls the radio station.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
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Slice (2009)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to finding the killer, but given an ultimatum to solve it in 15 days, Papa Chin (Chatchai Plenpanich) turns to the one man he doesn’t want to use — an imprisoned hitman named Tai (Arak Amornsupasiri), who thinks the killer is a friend of his from childhood. Tai let out of prison while his girlfriend Noi is kept under close watch by Chin. Tai heads back to his hometown to search for clues about where his old friend might be. As he recalls his childhood and friendship with the troubled boy Nut, the events of the present day crystallize until Tai is confronted with a shocking reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, neo noir, bloody, suspense, detective, serious
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Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a policeman. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic, bloody, dark, detective, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic
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Choose (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychological, psychological thriller, perverse, scary, detective
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iMurders (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, cyber, rough, realistic, 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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Penance (2023)
Plot Summary:
Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who murders his victims according to the 9 Circles of Hell. As Brannigan delves deeper into the case, dark secrets are revealed and the evidence begins to state that this is not MURDER, this is REVENGE.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Plot Summary:
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Night Game (1989)
Plot Summary:
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiancé, the town's minister, is stricken the same way. Based on the true crime book Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, the film is buoyed by Montgomery's startling performance, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until its final moments.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Todd Killings (1971)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film
Similar in 76%
Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic
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Son of Sam (2008)
Plot Summary:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher
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Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Zodiac (2005)
Plot Summary:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, independent film, realistic