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Plot Summary:
Haunted Prison - AKA Death Row - a horrifying live action film based on the short story by Kevin VanHook-takes place at Isla de la Roca Penitentiary. Rumor has it the Devil himself spat up the place out of the depths of hell, and man turned it into a prison for the most dangerous prisoners in the South. The monstrous building is steeped in the evil created by centuries of murder and injustice and is haunted by vengeful ghosts. Isla de la Roca was abandoned after being soaked in blood by a horrific massacre of inmates and guards. A gang of fugitives from a cop-killing robbery seek refuge within the razor wire of the prison walls at the same time as a documentary film crew arrives to tell the story of the penitentiary. When these groups cross paths within the cruel walls of Isla de la Roca, will anyone get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, student film
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The Black Dahlia Haunting (2012)
Plot Summary:
While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as "The Black Dahlia".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 85%
I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
Is there love after death? The small rural community of Port Oram can answer that. When deranged young Dolores Finley (Zoë Daelman Chlanda) appears out of nowhere to begin work at the Beech's Funeral Home, the local mortuary soon becomes more than just a quiet place of rest. Dolores' passion for cadavers gives new meaning to the phrase "disturbing the peace".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: rough, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense, controversial, independent film, offbeat, serious
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The Seamstress (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, suspense, demonic, awful
Similar in 86%
Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, independent film
Similar in 77%
Hellblock 13 (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, queer horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Nailed (2006)
Plot Summary:
A pair of crooks on the run from the law gets more than they bargained for when they break into a seemingly abandoned house looking for a place to hole up and find that it's controlled by an evil spirit that will do anything to protect its sole, sickly resident. Suddenly, jail's not looking so bad.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense
Similar in 77%
Prison (1987)
Plot Summary:
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, retro, disturbing, cult classic, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Hillside Cannibals (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, mockbuster, serious, rough, suspenseful, dark, independent film, campy
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Retardead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As the ravenous monsters overrun the town, Hannigan tries to convince Stern's faithful assistant to reveal how to foil the crazed doctor's evil scheme.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, horror comedy, creepy, ridiculous
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Mommy's Day (1997)
Plot Summary:
After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders are continuing, it doesn't look very good for Mommy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Prisoner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
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Brutal (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a small town, a serial killer mutilates the bodies of his victims and leaves a flower on the corpses. The sheriff and his wife/deputy investigate the murders while trying to keep from alarming the citizens. They team up with an autistic hound dog trainer to try to track the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, detective, slasher, spoof, parody
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
Similar in 82%
Trackman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A perfect bank heist turns deadly when the robbers and their hostages flee to the abandoned underground subway station where they encounter the Trackman, a deformed madman that prowls the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, underground film, slasher horror
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
Similar in 75%
Dead Men Walking (2005)
Plot Summary:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is to escape; but once you're inside this prison, there's really no way of getting out safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, creepy, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Detention (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
Similar in 85%
Animus (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by a blood thirsty maniac.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 83%
House of Bones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, terrifying, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Somebody Help Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, slasher horror
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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, cult film
Similar in 81%
13th Child (2002)
Plot Summary:
People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 80%
Death Row (2007)
Plot Summary:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, independent film
Similar in 78%
Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
Similar in 84%
The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspense, spooky, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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Episode 50 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful