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Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film
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God's Bloody Acre (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three mountain men live a simple life in a forest, until a construction crew shows up to make a park, and the men are prepared to defend their land and lifestyle by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 89%
Scalpel (1977)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Park (2003)
Plot Summary:
An amusement park reopens after a deadly accident fourteen years prior. But although the park is back in business, that doesn't mean it's safe, and when a young boy goes missing, a group of his friends set out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Horror, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slasher
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The Trek (2008)
Plot Summary:
Keith and Kim Russell have just tied the knot and have set out on an adventure packed honeymoon in the wilderness. But much to their surprise, they find more action than they were looking for when they stumble upon a pair of cave dwelling savages.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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The Newlydeads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, the drag queen's spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, weird
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Piglady (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events. Filmed at the murder scene. A group of friends, while on a Christmas vacation to a cabin in Southern Oregon, learn of a rumor of an antisocial woman who allegedly murders people and feeds her victims to pigs.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Vampz (2004)
Plot Summary:
The downtown jungle of Los Angeles home to the downtrodden, forlorn and desperate makes the perfect roost for this trio of ancient one's. When going out to "feed" becomes too dangerous, they concoct a plan to bring their dinner home with a all night massage parlor that offers to cater to the kinkiest of midnight tastes. But when a young woman, who has been evicted by her husband arrives on their doorstep, they don't realize the danger they are letting into their nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Blood Massacre (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gang are on the run after a video store robbery goes wrong and results in a death. One of their party, Rizzo is maybe not as stable as he should be. Hiding out at a family's farm house, events unfold that reveal not everything is as it seems. Who will survive the Blood Massacre?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film, biting, suspense, weird
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Trapped by Fear (1985)
Plot Summary:
A mental patient detained in a psychiatric hospital escapes from confinement and is dedicated to roam the outskirts of Madrid. His mind is no more disturbed rationale to kill. After murdering two girls on the banks of a river, go stringing a series of murders each more repulsive, spreading terror in the place. José and Antonio, two good friends, prepare a fun weekend at the country house that Joseph's family owns on the outskirts of the city. Taking this opportunity to invite two beautiful sisters, Anne and Laura, who accept the invitation. Ana, the eldest, works as a secretary, unhurried lives and loves Antonio. Laura on the other hand, has a shy and introverted character that has intensified after a recent failed love affair. Everything seems it will be a fun weekend for two couples.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Single Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men and women travel to a Carribean resort to discover themselves sexually but unfortunately one of them has also discovered that they like to murder people too.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, cult film
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The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before it, or the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
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The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare (1964)
Plot Summary:
An artist and his wife hold art classes using nude models. Their photographer friend Pete returns from two years in Europe, and they try to convince him he has a promising career in nude photography. He eventually agrees to try it, but finds that the sight of red hair or red nail polish triggers unhealthy impulses, to the detriment of some of his models.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hollywood 90028 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes through life detached, alone, and unable to control his psychotic desire to kill the things he loves most. Employed as a cameraman in a seedy porno operation, he spends his days separated from the shame and degradation by the camera he uses to record it. When he is confronted with the reality of an actual sexual encounter, without his camera for protection, he invariably strangles his partner during the lovemaking process. But then he meets a girl...and the nightmare begins!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Bits and Pieces (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, picking out young beautiful women as his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Shallow Grave (1987)
Plot Summary:
Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness the local sheriff murder a woman. They try to escape before he murders them, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, road movie, suspense, vintage
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Play Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, brutal, independent film, awful
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Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of the tribe, they are cursed to an eternity of old age with no chance to ever die. Now, in present day Los Angeles, their only hope to recapture eternal youth is the ritualistic sacrifice of a 16-year-old female virgin. Their existence is discovered by an investigative reporter and a young runaway child and this leads to an unexplained and terrifying confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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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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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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Blood Lake (1987)
Plot Summary:
Six teenagers decide to party one weekend, but before the partying begins one couple disappears. Only to be fount brutally murdered. A blood thirsty killer is stalking their summer playground. One by one bodies begin to show up, as they become prey to the venomous vengeance-seeking maniac.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher horror
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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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Haunts (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman haunted by psychosexual nightmares begins to believe her father is responsible for a series of scissor-murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Crucible of Terror (1971)
Plot Summary:
An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: classic horror, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody, dark
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Last of the Grads (2021)
Plot Summary:
A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary “Coast to Coast Killer”.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
Similar in 81%
Ruby (1977)
Plot Summary:
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Vampire Clan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy raod trip. His behaviour begins to frighten his friends, though they went along with it at first. All end up in prison except Heather.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, dark, scary
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Hungry Wives (1972)
Plot Summary:
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, demonic, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, phantasmagoric, independent film, scary, psychological
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Last Girl Standing (2015)
Plot Summary:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic