Best movies like Dead in the Water
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Plot Summary:
The Nereus is a fifty-year-old Ice Breaker, salvaged by an idealistic crew on a mission to catch illegal fisherman. On chase, the crew find themselves well off-course and bearing down on a body mysteriously floating in the middle of the Devil’s Sea. Superstitious or not, the team soon discovers they’ve rescued a deadly creature feeding on the lifeless body. Their new mission—kill or be killed and preferably before they hit land.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Ninth Passenger (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of salacious students party aboard a luxury yacht only to turn on each other as a 9th PASSENGER picks them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
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Deadly Reunion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after graduation, a mini-reunion is organized by Tom and Jill Miller at their home, inviting only the special friends that were in their clique and one fringe member, Bobby Zwick, whom they had done a terrible wrong. Bobby said all was forgiven, but he was not telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heavy Makeup (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal murders occur in their Hollywood neighborhood, two women search for clues to uncover the identity of a serial killer who is targeting struggling young actresses.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror spoof, cult film
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Cabin Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror, horror comedy, surprise ending, twist ending
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Finding Randy (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an old friend's return home is disrupted by his sudden disappearance, what starts as a welcome home film becomes an unsettling search.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, twisted
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The Sadist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing
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Evil Deeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Thief encounters a strange old Hermit who tells him tales of Evil Deeds - including a Detective's search for a escaped mental patient, a tale of young lady and her new beau who arrange to have her abusive father killed and the body disposed of - unfortunately he doesn't stay dead, and a babysitter is tormented by phone calls from a demented man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Redwood Massacre: Annihilation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders, convinces a group of bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in hope of proving the existence of the infamous killer. Their quest for truth sees a sinister turn of events, as the hunters become the hunted. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues when they find that the tales told of the axe-wielding manic is very real.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Deep Sleep (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this electrifying giallo, a killer traumatized by the memories of his childhood receives a mysterious envelope pushed underneath his door.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
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Darker than Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Death Heads: Brain Drain (2018)
Plot Summary:
The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Beneath (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, slasher, mumblecore, psychotronic, independent film
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The Sighting (2016)
Plot Summary:
A terrifying psychological thriller set near the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana. Two high school friends, Travis and Nate, are on a road trip to Canada when they're attacked by mysterious and vicious creatures. Nate is stolen into the woods and Travis will stop at nothing to get him back. Travis recruits Nate's older brother Chris to bring an arsenal and wage war against these monsters in an effort to retrieve Nate.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, psychotronic, low-budget
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Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Dark Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Anonymous Killers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Necrophobia 3D (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mentally fragile man must conquer his fear of death in order to stave off a killer’s advances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Tempus Tormentum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, suspense, psychotronic, psycho film
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Odds Are (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Meander (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, clever, slasher, minimal cast
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Sea Fever (2019)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, rough, scary, dark, nautical, perverse
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HazMat (2013)
Plot Summary:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Turistas (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bloody, tense, splatter, psychological