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Plot Summary:
Looking for revenge for past incestuous experiences, a slasher invades a lonely farmhouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film
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Hatchetman (2003)
Plot Summary:
Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 87%
Room 13 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 80%
Victims (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother and her brutal pimp and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 87%
Hotline (1982)
Plot Summary:
A crisis helpline assistant attracts the attention of a serial killer who delights in feeding her cryptic, nursery-rhyme style riddles when planning his next murder!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, crime thriller
Similar in 90%
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 77%
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
Similar in 79%
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
A Brush with Death (2007)
Plot Summary:
Five high school cheerleaders drive out to a rural mansion to spend the weekend. They hear a thirty year-old urban legend about a young boy who killed his family and used their blood in his juvenile artwork. While exploring an old farmhouse on the property they discover that the boy never left his home and has grown into a sick and twisted man.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
Similar in 75%
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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Vampire at Midnight (1987)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 79%
Eyes Behind the Wall (1977)
Plot Summary:
The movie starts with a scene of a young man raping and murdering a woman on a train. Later he rents a room from an elderly wheelchair-bound voyeur and his much younger wife. The elderly man enjoys watching the younger man through the a hole in the wall where he has set up a periscope-like device. The first thing he sees, for instance, is the younger man get forcibly raped by a big black guy he has picked up at a cheesy disco. Then he sends his wife over to seduce the young man, and its eventually revealed the true nature of the couple's relationship and how he came to be in the wheelchair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, gothic horror, classic horror
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
Similar in 88%
Deadly Dreams (1988)
Plot Summary:
From the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, bloody, christmas horror, suspense thriller, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 85%
Top Sensation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Attempting to cure her mentally handicapped son's virginity, his mother and several friends embark on a cruise which strands them on nearly deserted island where lust and murder are on the menu!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, bizarre
Similar in 81%
Laser Moon (1993)
Plot Summary:
A radio DJ helps two police detectives hunt down a serial killer who kills women using a surgical laser instrument during every full moon and whom makes taunting phone calls the radio station.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 75%
Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a policeman. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic, bloody, dark, detective, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Smile Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Teenaged Nancy Thompson arrives unexpectedly at her mothers county villa. She discovers that her mom has died a violent death.The police investigate and believe the she killed herself by cutting her throat with a piece of broken of glass.Nancy meets and becomes friends with Gina who was her mothers best friend and who has a special relationship with her stepfather.Soon the older man turns his roving eye toward this young beauty as suspicion about the suicide starts to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 83%
Honeymoon Horror (1982)
Plot Summary:
Imagine every newlywed's fantasy, a rustic secluded lover's paradise- Honeymoon Island. What starts as a weekend of love, turns into a nightmare of blood and terror for three young innocent couples. What lurks in the shadows of Honeymoon Lodge? Is it the caretaker, or perhaps something more fiendish and deadly? Honeymoon Island, where newlyweds joined in holy matrimony spend their wedding night screaming in terror!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 86%
The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
Similar in 87%
Bloody Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the murders by herself, she finds that she may be the killer's next target when she gets too close to some dark secrets of the camp which may lead to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, splatter, teen horror, surprise ending
Similar in 89%
Watcher (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, dark, scary, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, neo noir
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Intrusion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Holly Jensen leads an overly dramatic life. It's one that is spent trying to avoid her problems and forget the past. Best friend Kali has the perfect solution to making Holly feel better. It's a game called "Wrong Number". However, the man on the other end finds the joke less than funny and decides to play a game of his own. A game where Holly will become the pawn. It's a character-driven thriller where everything has consequences and something as beautiful as a rose can be turned into any woman's, worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, tension, cult film
Similar in 86%
X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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The Roommate (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two become close, but when Sara begins to branch out and make more friends on campus, Rebecca becomes resentful. Alarmed, Sara moves in with her new boyfriend, causing Rebecca's behavior to take a violent turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh, serious, teen, dark
Similar in 79%
Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film