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Plot Summary:
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, detective, surprise ending, weird
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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
Similar in 85%
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Plot Summary:
The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, weird, cult film
Similar in 77%
Hex (1980)
Plot Summary:
Constantly mistreated by her cruel, alcoholic husband Chun-yu (Wang Jung), frail Chan Sau-ying (Tanny Tien Ni) awaits certain death from tuberculosis. New servant girl Yi-wah (Chen Szu-chia) takes pity on her mistress' plight but, after suffering Chun-yu's abuse once too often, the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance. Yi-wah dismisses her claims as the delusions brought about by guilt and her illness but it appears that the house is indeed being haunted by a corpse that will not be easily appeased.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, poliziottesco, weird, cult film
Similar in 78%
Satanic Attraction (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like someone or some group is using her show to get ideas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, slasher horror
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
Plot Summary:
Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Bewitched (1981)
Plot Summary:
While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, poliziottesco, lovecraft
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Zipperface (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Ryder is a young policewoman recently promoted to detective when she has her first case in tracking down and identifying a serial killer in her small California town.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, independent film
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Destroyer (1988)
Plot Summary:
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, bloody, 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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Grave Robbers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ruben Galindo's "Grave Robbers" tells the tale of an undead axe-wielding Satanist brought back by young grave robbers.An undead satanic priest is released from his chains of death.And he is thirsty for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, detective, teen horror, cult film
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They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two Texas gardeners, who object to Northern attitudes and lifestyles, venture northward to cut lawns, trim hedges, and murder and mutilate Northern Yuppies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, independent film, slasher horror
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Delirium (1987)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the mistress with pictures of their disfigured corpses taken in front of her semi-nude posters visible in the background. Is she going to be the psycho's next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual
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The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant, which serves delicious pork bao. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant's former owner; he and his family have disappeared; staff at the restaurant continue to go missing; and, Wong can't produce a signed bill of sale: but there's no evidence. The police arrest Wong and try to torture him into a confession. Can they make him talk? And what was in those pork bao?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, dark comedy, extreme horror, slasher, brutal, depressing, detective, horror comedy
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The Girl in the Yellow Pajamas (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult classic, erotic, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Killer Is Still Among Us (1986)
Plot Summary:
Forensic student Christina Marelli decide to write about a mysterious serial killer who kills couple in love. The killer shows up just when the little lovebirds sitting in their cars and have a cozy time. He shoots them to death and then uses her knife to mutilate women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, surprise ending, independent film
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Eyeball (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 77%
Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
Similar in 88%
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
Plot Summary:
A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological thriller, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it that a fiendish Red Lady is to return to the castle every hundred years and kill seven people. Fourteen years later, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) has become a successful fashion photographer. Suddenly, people begin to get murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, exciting, psychotronic, erotic, retro
Similar in 80%
The French Sex Murders (1972)
Plot Summary:
The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after the suspect's ironic-if-he-were-actually-guilty demise, his suspicions are confirmed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, scary, atmospheric, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Opera (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody, creepy, grindhouse, atmospheric, surreal, controversial
Similar in 77%
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, spooky, twisted, scary
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Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Amsterdamned (1988)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher horror, weird
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Psycho II (1983)
Plot Summary:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" demands and begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, bloody, splatter, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Giallo a Venezia (1979)
Plot Summary:
A couple is found dead in mysterious circumstances – there are some puzzling details concerning their murder. The detective inspector in charge of the case (Inspector DePaul – Jeff Blynn) is trying hard to understand the motives and, most of all, the strange modus operandi of the killer. The only lead he has is a photo displaying the couple together with some friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, detective, suspense, controversial, cult classic, weird, bizarre, sexploitation film, hot
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Plot Summary:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, sensual, erotic
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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, suspense, detective, bloody, disturbing