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Plot Summary:
Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not invited.".
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, cult horror, classic horror
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Children of the Corn (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska this remake of the 1984 original (based on Stephen King's 1977 short story) centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who worship an entity known as He Who Walks Behind The Rows, which had years earlier manipulated the children into killing every adult in town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, depressing, sad, controversial, classic horror, surprise ending, slasher
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Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska - only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possessed children. As she digs deeper, she discovers a dark secret about her grandmother and awakens a dark, demonic force that wants Jamie dead and will stop at nothing.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting, captivating, scary, pastoral, cult horror, classic horror
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A Dream Within a Dream (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six high school students, WILL, CHARLIE, BARTOK, TODD, STEVIE and LINDA, are handed invitations to a party by the school’s mysterious and enigmatic new student, SADDLER. However, once they enter Saddler’s house, they are each somehow magically transported to a different room, where Saddler reveals their innermost guilty secrets and desires through the use of black magic and exploits them in an attempt to resurrect his mother, a three-hundred year old witch.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, homoerotic, independent film, campy
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Beware: Children at Play (1989)
Plot Summary:
Parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back. After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult leader, they turn on their parents with gruesome results.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, psychological, controversial, spooky, terrifying, slasher, scary, rough, offbeat
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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
Similar in 77%
Blood Relic (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, independent film, scary, surprise ending, splatter, awful
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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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Trespassers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. Colin gathers 4 friends and leaves for Mexico but is surprised that nor his brother nor his brother's friends are there. They start realizing that there's something wrong with the beach, a curse that says that no one will leave the beach alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Nine Lives (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Mercy (2014)
Plot Summary:
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, demonic, lovecraft, grindhouse, creepy, terrifying
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Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
Plot Summary:
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they carry out their plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, rough, offbeat
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfill the final prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, saga, pastoral, cult horror, independent film, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for the road and plants them in the courtyard of an abandoned warehouse, bringing "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" to the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, tense, atmospheric
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666: The Beast (2007)
Plot Summary:
Donald Lawson, the devil child from "666: The Child", is now an adult and is determined to fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, independent film
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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Seventh Moon (2008)
Plot Summary:
Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark, suspense, slasher, underground film, hilarious, independent film
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Somebody Help Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, slasher horror
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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, cult film
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Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996)
Plot Summary:
Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness claim they are somebody else -- then they begin murdering the grown-ups. After her sister undergoes the same sinister metamorphosis, Grace comes to believe there is some connection to an evil cult figure who may be returning from the grave.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Plot Summary:
Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces. Yet even as bodies begin cropping up all around them, the young friends decide to stay and rescue the children... or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, saga, pastoral, cult horror, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting, humorous, suspense, independent film
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Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
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The Butcher (2006)
Plot Summary:
A tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere finds six stranded college students fighting for their lives after making a horrifying discovery in a remote farmhouse in director Edward Gorsuch's rural frightener. With no place to run and no police station for miles, these doomed students are about to discover that down home hospitality is the last thing on the minds of the murderous family who stalks them through the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, serious, cult film, awful
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Dark House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, demonic, cult horror, awful
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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Wreckage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Plot Summary:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, rough, classic horror, psychological