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Plot Summary:
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, slasher, sexy, satanic, demonic, grindhouse
Best tv shows and movies like Demons of the Mind (1972):
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The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
Plot Summary:
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, grindhouse, atmospheric, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film
Similar in 86%
House of Usher (2008)
Plot Summary:
Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
The Black Room (1982)
Plot Summary:
A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 90%
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 80%
Slaughter (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman looks to escape her abusive life by moving to her family's farm near Atlanta. Unfortunately, she learns her place of supposed comfort offers more terrifying forms of abuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, suspense thriller, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Plot Summary:
Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty of sadistic murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neurotic
Similar in 89%
Lips of Blood (1975)
Plot Summary:
Frederick sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, sexy, mind bending, serious
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The Corpse (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: noir, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious
Similar in 84%
The Third Eye (1966)
Plot Summary:
The young Count Mino live in a big, old castle together with his dominant mother and a maid. Mother does not want him to marry his fiancee Laura, which turns out to have dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, neo noir, crying
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Nine Lives (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
Similar in 83%
All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jane lives in London with her boyfriend Richard. Her mother was murdered when she was young, she recently lost a baby in a car crash and she's plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding man. Richard thinks that the cure is vitamins, while Jane's sister recommends psychiatric help. But a new neighbour promises that if she participates in a Black Mass, all her fears will disappear, instead it just seems to bring her nightmares to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sadistic, scary, disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, surreal, suspense, demonic, art house
Similar in 86%
Fright (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Trauma (1976)
Plot Summary:
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, scary, sexy, mind bending
Similar in 82%
Dementia 13 (1963)
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
Similar in 90%
Lake Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, perverse, serious, independent film
Similar in 83%
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 83%
The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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The Lords of Salem (2012)
Plot Summary:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, surreal, satanic, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, art house, bleak, grindhouse
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The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Plot Summary:
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satanic, slasher, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, classic horror, demonic, pastoral, cult horror
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Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Plot Summary:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
Mirror Mirror (1990)
Plot Summary:
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of 'accidents'. Is the mirror a reflection of Megan's own inner demons... or has she unwittingly opened the doorway of the damned?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, tense, retro, slasher, demonic, independent film, rough
Similar in 77%
Shrew's Nest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, sexy, surreal, controversial, hispanic
Similar in 78%
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Plot Summary:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy
Similar in 84%
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Plot Summary:
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychotronic, sexy, grindhouse, perverse, classic horror
Similar in 80%
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 87%
Don't Hang Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, mind bending
Similar in 81%
Hellraiser (1987)
Plot Summary:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, slasher, demonic, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological, splatter, dark fantasy
Similar in 78%
House of Wax (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, gothic, serious, bloody, creepy, psychological
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The Abandoned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) and the appearance of another man who has been drawn to the farm for the same reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, dark, creepy