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Plot Summary:
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, grindhouse, cult classic, twisted, independent film, cult film
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Warlock Moon (1973)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers John and Jenny decide to go for a drive in the countryside one day when they happen upon the remains of a long-abandoned resort spa. After doing some exploring, they find that an elderly couple is still living in the crumbling building. They tell the youngsters that the resort was shut down long ago because it was the headquarters of a satanic cult that performed cannibalistic rituals on unsuspecting visitors, and then invite the pair to stay for dinner. Will John or Jenny make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: satanic, slasher, gothic horror, demonic, independent film, cult film
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Criminally Insane 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, spooky, independent film
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Sweet Kill (1972)
Plot Summary:
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Death Nurse 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Death Nurse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Shady Palms Clinic, a place where nurse Edith Mortley and her brother Dr. Gordon Mortley take great care of their patients. They tuck you in, offer free burial service, and serve freshly made sandwiches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Doctor Bloodbath (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of Dr. Thorn, an abortionist who uses post-procedure house calls as opportunities to murder his patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Eaten Alive (1976)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, surreal, natural horror, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
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Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, sadistic, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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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
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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
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Psycho Sisters (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mean and domineering Jane and the sweet and ditsy Jackie are two radically contrasting sisters who suffer from severe trauma after witnessing the murder/suicide of their parents as well as seeing their other sibling Janice raped and killed by her assailants. The pair are deemed fit to re-enter society and get released from a sanitarium where they have undergone extensive rehabilitation therapy. However, Jane and Jackie prove to be anything but sane and harmless as they embark on a vicious spree in which they torture, murder, and mutilate any man luckless enough to cross their lethal paths.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, suspense, splatter, independent film
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Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Plot Summary:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, brutal, bloody, splatter, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, classic horror
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Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie' bakery who abducts a number of customers from the barber shop and kills them and helps the couple make "meat pies" out of the dead victims for sale.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, psychological thriller, slasher, sadistic, splatter, independent film, gay cinema, psycho film, awful
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The Forest (1982)
Plot Summary:
A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychological thriller, rough, grindhouse, bloody, creepy, cult classic, splatter
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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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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
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Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, surprise ending, horror comedy
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Final Exam (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious, psychotronic, retro, cult classic, independent film, sadistic
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Blood Song (1982)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, bloody, psychological thriller, independent film, psycho film, cult film
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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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Madman (1981)
Plot Summary:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult horror, independent film, suspense
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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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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
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Anguish (1987)
Plot Summary:
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, bloody, mind blowing
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Alone in the Dark (1982)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, grindhouse, creepy, classic 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
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Plot Summary:
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in addition to terrified teenagers, he meets a young boy named Tommy who has a special talent for horror masks and make up, leading up to a horrifying, bloody battle! Has Jason finally met his match?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful, spooky, teen horror, slasher horror, psychological
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, brutal, splatter
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Halloween (1978)
Plot Summary:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher horror, psychological thriller, creepy, dark