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Plot Summary:
Jim Preston receives a yacht as an anniversary present from his wealthy wife Ellen. He plans to kill her for her entire fortune. To carry out the murder plan, he makes a contact with Mike, a crazed rape killer who has been terrorizing the city. Mike agrees to be the assassin for a large quantity of heroin. However he suspects that Preston will kill him as soon as his assignment is complete, so he finds a woman who looks exactly like Ellen and kills her instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, independent film, grindhouse
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The Love Butcher (1975)
Plot Summary:
The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Midnight (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl runs away from home because police officer/stepfather puts the moves on her. Hitchhiking to California, she's picked up by two guys who are also traveling cross-country. Along the way, they decide to camp out in the woods and run across a family of Satanists who keep their dead mother in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, pastoral, psychotronic, independent film, satanic, demonic, cult film
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Lady Stay Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
Millionairess actress-singer Marie Coleby (Deborah Couls) lives in a luxurious villa on a deserted beach. One afternoon following a TV commercial shoot at the villa she incites gardener Gordon Mason (Chard Hayward) to mayhem and murder. The unexpected arrival of Marie's sister Jenny Nolan (Louise Howitt) hinders Mason's attempts to dispose of the body. He then decides to kill Jenny. But she is equally determined to stay alive ... so begins a battle of wits. Jenny's salvation seems at hand when two security men arrive at the villa, but only one, Officer Collings (Roger Ward) survives the initial siege. Then Jenny is alone to face Mason for the final time.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, twisted, sexy, independent film, slasher horror, weird, cult film
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Wicked, Wicked (1973)
Plot Summary:
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, psychological thriller, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, slasher horror, mad, psycho film
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A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Plot Summary:
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, detective, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dance Macabre (1992)
Plot Summary:
A dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality--and his hidden personality is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, gothic, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
Plot Summary:
A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, creepy, psychological thriller, retro, action thriller, independent film, sadistic, scary, mind bending
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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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Forced Entry (1976)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist stalks and murders prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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The Undertaker (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, perverse, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Scum of the Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where pregnant wife Emmy, thick-as-a-brick son Bo, and available-since-she-was-twelve daughter Sarah, do their best to give her a "family" welcome. While Helen's immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, psycho film, awful
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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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Midnight Killer (1986)
Plot Summary:
Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder may have been committed by the so-called "Midnight Ripper". The only problem is that the Midnight Ripper has been dead for several years.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, creepy, 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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Old 37 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers intercept 911 calls in their Father's beat up old Ambulance to exact revenge on a group of careless teen drivers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, disturbing, rough, brutal, suspense, independent film, slasher horror, awful
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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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The Last Showing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, psychological thriller, slasher, action thriller, realistic, sinister, independent film
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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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Just Before Dawn (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there's a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, independent film, serious, suspense
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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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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, dark, disturbing, grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, suspense, creepy
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The Tortured (2010)
Plot Summary:
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, slasher, serious, scary, psychological, depressing
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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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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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The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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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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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Plot Summary:
Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop the dark, devious and demented deaths that he unwittingly brought about.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, suspense, retro, dark, controversial, anime