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Plot Summary:
When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, black and white, atmospheric, gothic, grindhouse, cult classic
Best tv shows and movies like Dementia 13 (1963):
Similar in 77%
Bloodlust! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two couples (Robert Reed, June Kenney, Joan Lora, and Eugene Persson) are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff), whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, atmospheric, cult classic, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 82%
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, noir, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological
Similar in 79%
Hidden (2009)
Plot Summary:
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, suspense, slasher, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Don't Hang Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
The Sadist (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, black and white, cult classic, classic horror, scary, psychological
Similar in 81%
Scream of Fear (1961)
Plot Summary:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
The Voices (2020)
Plot Summary:
Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken her own life. While coming to terms with this heavy realization, Grace also uncovers another terrible little secret that has her struggling to maintain her own sanity and ultimately scurrying to save herself and her family from further harm.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
The Monitor (2011)
Plot Summary:
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, social, grindhouse, cult horror
Similar in 83%
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Plot Summary:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, psychological, psychological horror, scary, black and white, atmospheric, suspenseful, black comedy, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Terror (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes him to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. How can he save the mysterious girl?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, serious, cult classic, classic horror, scary, stylized
Similar in 85%
Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
Similar in 85%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 84%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, surprise ending, horror comedy
Similar in 89%
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, slasher
Similar in 86%
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit might be a strange doll she received a few days earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, serious, bloody, brutal, horror comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 80%
Cujo (1983)
Plot Summary:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bad ending, suspense, natural horror, serious, psychological, splatter, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 83%
The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
Similar in 90%
Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
Similar in 75%
Child's Play (1988)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, frightening, christmas horror, cult classic, classic horror, demonic, dark fantasy
Similar in 75%
Pet Sematary (2019)
Plot Summary:
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, spooky, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychedelic, gothic, dark
Similar in 82%
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Plot Summary:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, suspense, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher
Similar in 86%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, creepy, rough, grindhouse
Similar in 86%
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher
Similar in 76%
Tourist Trap (1979)
Plot Summary:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. Slausen's insane brother. Davey has a knack for making mannequins. In fact, his house is filled with them. Davey's enthusiasm shows when starts adding the teenagers to his collection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, bloody, grindhouse, cult horror
Similar in 81%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic
Similar in 82%
6 Souls (2010)
Plot Summary:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale, suspense, tricky, dark, twisted, thought provoking
Similar in 87%
Vacancy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, creepy, tense
Similar in 87%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, grindhouse, creepy, classic horror
Similar in 90%
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, suspenseful, psychological, slasher horror, saga, controversial, mystic
Similar in 83%
Dead Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, dark, slasher, suspense, frightening