Best movies like Circus of the Dead
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Plot Summary:
A sadistic group of clowns kidnap an unsuspecting man and his daughters, forcing him to play a deadly game in order to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sadistic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
Best tv shows and movies like Circus of the Dead (2014):
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You're Fuck'n Dead! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters take a wrong turn and find themselves in a strange, forgotten town not found on any map. When the sisters discover the town's true dark nature, they become targets, fighting for their souls against an evil that will never let them leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse
Similar in 81%
The Carnage Collection (2015)
Plot Summary:
With channels that can't be found on any other cable package and a special offer including a lifetime of free service, one homeowner doesn't think twice before signing on the dotted line and settling in to check out his new programs. But when the salesman said that these shows couldn't be seen anywhere else, he wasn't kidding... These series are all a part of something more vicious... Something more vile... They're all a part of THE CARNAGE COLLECTION.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Massacre County (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a hideous crime in a mansion by the forest, where a group of young people was found murdered, a suspicious clown tries to prove his innocence to the investigator that found him covered in blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 89%
Cut! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is as it seems as an ex-con and aspirant filmmaker set out to manufacture a horror film by scaring real people; however, when it goes too far and someone actually dies, the pair decide that killing for real on film is the way to make a truly terrifying movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, twisted, spooky
Similar in 78%
Don't Go to the Reunion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Scott Rantzen (Brady Simenson) is a horror movie loving misfit who is teased by the popular students in school. When a date with the very popular and very beautiful Erica Carpenter (Stephanie Leigh Rose) backfires, he feels as though his life is ruined. Ten years later, the gang reunite for their class reunion. Little do they know that someone is waiting for them and ready to see that they pay for what they did. Is Scott back for revenge and will the old gang survive to tell the tale? It'll be more gore for Class of 04.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film, grindhouse
Similar in 76%
Devil May Call (2013)
Plot Summary:
A blind young suicide-hotline operator descends into a night of unrelenting terror when an obsessive caller turns out to be a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological thriller
Similar in 76%
Hole (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is the detective looking for answers. All 3 lives intertwine with horrific consequences when their fears come upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, spiritual, cult film
Similar in 78%
Cove Road (2012)
Plot Summary:
While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Capps Crossing (2017)
Plot Summary:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Halloween Horror Tales (2018)
Plot Summary:
A movie featuring four stories. First is about a psychotic killer clown stalking a young woman. In the second a scream queen gets more than she bargained for when she is interviewed by a TV talk show hostess. The third is a nature run amok tale and the fourth tells the story of an FBI agent investigating a series of brutal murders in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale, independent film
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The Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 83%
Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hitchhiker Massacre (2017)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, young hitchhiker Sally (Ely LaMay), attempts to survive the night while making her way back home as a sadistic killer and cannibalistic madman (John Blyth Barrymore) haunts the desert highways, probing for fresh roadkill.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, sadistic
Similar in 84%
Joker's Wild (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a clown-masked assailant guns down Aurora's Place, the resident theater owner fights to re-open her business.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lucid (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
Similar in 86%
Theatre of Fear (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Moreau Family travel around the UK putting on an underground variety show for an adult audience. But behind the curtain there is something more sinister going on than simple entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Die Influencers Die (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington (Frankie Rivers) dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty Clown Model - Moxie (Tabitha Stevens) who's directed to kill these intruders by a sinister Otherworld-Coyote (Lizzy Borden). It's a bloody 80's style kill-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Camp Blood 5 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Raven, the only survivor of a previous massacre, returns to the forest to avenge her fallen friends and stop Camp Blood Killer once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film
Similar in 76%
Pig (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, extreme horror, weird
Similar in 81%
Camp Blood 8: Revelations (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Killing at Camp Blood stopped for a while. But the son of the original killer clown has carried on the machete and driven by his deranged mother, played by Sally Mullins (Things 4, Lights Out With David Spade), continues to kill anyone who trespasses in his woods. When a group of female volleyball players' vehicle breaks down in the woods, they are all potential victims of the killer clown. Their leader and coach Dolly, played by Phoebe Dollar (Hell's Highway, Sunset Society), devices a plan that is meant to help them escape, but could possible get them all killed. Is she in on the murders" Does she have a dark secret herself? All will be revealed.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Taught in Cold Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 85%
Halloween Awakening: The Legacy of Michael Myers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michael Myers stalks a group of party-goers who break into Smith's Grove Sanitarium on Halloween night.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Leaf Blower Massacre 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After finding out about the brutal murder of his fiancé, Shavar seeks revenge against a masked killer with a penchant for yard work weaponry. Fall will be the season of fear.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Truth or Dare (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six college kids find internet stardom when they make "Truth or Dare" videos with a violent twist. It is all fun and games until their number one fan decides he wants to play by his own rules.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 87%
Kruel (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Kruel' - is a horror/thriller feature length movie about a psychotic killer who masquerades as an ice cream man in order to get closer to the objects of his affection.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Face: A Frat Party Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
An annual Halloween fear competition between a fraternity and sorority goes awry when drugs, alcohol and the old battle of the sexes are mixed together. What is on the line? The losers must do anything the winners ask for one night. The bros won last year. They not only violated the loser but uploaded the footage on the internet. Jamie, the head of the sorority, wants vengeance. She has concocted a devilish plan to humiliate the frat brothers and come out on top. However, she is not aware that Matt, the head of the fraternity, has machinations of his own. Who will win this year? At what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Bad Candy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, spooky