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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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Cemetery Sisters (1987)
Plot Summary:
Joan and Leslie want to raise the money to buy their own cemetery. They decide to do so by marrying men and killing them for their money.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, 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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Sledgehammer (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent 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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The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Bloody Slaying of Sarah Ridelander (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Crazy Fat Ethel (2016)
Plot Summary:
Weighing in at about 300 pounds.. Ethel Janoski won't allow anyone to stand in the way of her glutinous appetite. Even if it means killing! After years in a mental institution, Ethel is taken in by her aunt. Many people including the head nurse of the institution and a local detective believe letting Ethel leave that hospital was a HUGE mistake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, sexy, slasher, slasher horror
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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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Silent Madness (1984)
Plot Summary:
A homicidal maniac is accidentally released from a hospital because of a computer error and heads to the site (a sorority) of his past murders to continue his penchant for mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, slasher horror, weird, cult 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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An Eye for an Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, 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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American Weapon (2014)
Plot Summary:
American Weapon is the story of six beautiful travelers who head to the mountains for a getaway weekend, only to be terrorized by a homicidal war veteran, who has been programmed to kill without remorse.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, slasher
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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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A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Psychos in the Woods (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of friends go camping in a remote forest where people have been disappearing for several years. What starts as an innocent weekend of fun turns into an ordeal of backwoods terror as a group of psychotic wood-dwellers starts stalking the friends. Capture leads to torture and mayhem, and the friends are killed off one by one. It all leads to a final confrontation between the sole survivor and the deadliest wood-dwelling psycho of all.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, serious, sadistic, slasher, independent film
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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Criminally Insane (1975)
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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Survival Knife (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even worse than the man who scarred her forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful
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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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You Are Not Alone (2014)
Plot Summary:
"An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare ... With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to be woken moments later by a loud knock on the door. Experience one night of terror, through Natalie’s eyes as she fights to escape a relentless, knife-wielding maniac …".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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I Spill Your Guts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two friends Dennis and Joe join the military together. While on a routine mission, the two are quickly surrounded by enemy fire. When Joe stands up in the line of fire to run, Dennis pushes him out of the way and takes a bullet in the throat. Dennis wakes up in hospital to find Joe rewarded as a hero. Joe told a lie and took all the glory, and Dennis was left as a mute from the accident. Dennis can't talk, but actions speak louder then words. The two return home to N.Y. and now the war rages in the streets. Dennis wants revenge on Joe, so he will kill everyone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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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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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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Borderline Cult (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three serial killers team up at the US/Mexican border town of Juarez and go on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film
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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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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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Haunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, dark