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Plot Summary:
Joyce seems to have the perfect life - she lives in a nice apartment with a wealthy husband, is soon going to give birth to a baby boy, and has all the money she'll ever need. But while her husband is away in London on business, Joyce is attacked by a masked intruder, that unleashes within her a frightened little girl, haunted by her "special" relationship with her daddy, and a crazed madwoman who is hungry for revenge. From then on, Joyce's wild hallucinations take over, and she begins to murder anyone and everyone who comes near her, in a violent fit of rage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Keep My Grave Open (1977)
Plot Summary:
A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, ambiguous ending, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 80%
Crazed (1978)
Plot Summary:
After moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, low-budget
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Cemetery Sisters (1987)
Plot Summary:
Joan and Leslie want to raise the money to buy their own cemetery. They decide to do so by marrying men and killing them for their money.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 76%
Blood Mania (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, psychotronic, twisted, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Mother's Day Massacre (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: a young man’s search for his estranged mother leads him to a terrifying encounter with ‘Pineys’, backwoods hillbillies with a taste for violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
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Piglady (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events. Filmed at the murder scene. A group of friends, while on a Christmas vacation to a cabin in Southern Oregon, learn of a rumor of an antisocial woman who allegedly murders people and feeds her victims to pigs.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Bloody Sex (1981)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian couple on vacation ends up staying with a sinister woman and her strange son in this Spanish giallo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexploitation film
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Death Screams (1982)
Plot Summary:
Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love couple Bob and Kathy, coach, Neil Marshall, waitresses, timid blonde Lily and comely, nubile Ramona, their boss Jackson and learning difficulties teenage peeping tom Casey who's dad Avery is the town sheriff. Several them decide to spend the night down at the river, where a unknown double homicide climaxed there some nights before. But among the fairgoers is the one responsible for the deaths and as they are lurking in the shadows troubled over a tragic past (or just about one thing or another) deciding to take their frustrations out with a machete on those they blame for all the misfortunes in their life. Following the group back to their riverside stamping grounds they set about ensuring no one leaves the area alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, bloody, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Drive In (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man, confined to a room across from a drive-in theater showing only horror movies, escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 88%
Janie (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, sadistic
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Take Me Naked (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Bagman (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Meatcleaver Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Four crazed killers, butchered his wife, son and daughter. From his hospital deathbed he called upon the power of the occult for revenge... And he got it, he really got it!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, supernatural thriller, cult film
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Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Lynn kills her father while he tries to rape her - the receiving officer at the mental hospital cannot convince her that her father is dead. After electric shock treatment she escapes in a nurses car. There is a farm where the manager is unable to feed his pigs on the usual swill, they have tasted blood - Human Blood! Lynn stumbles on the farm, she is looking for work she explains. "Papa they tell me, what do you see One little girl as deadly as can be." The circle begins, feed people to the pigs - then eat the pigs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, spooky, natural horror, independent film, cult film
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Frightworld (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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Blood Lake (1987)
Plot Summary:
Six teenagers decide to party one weekend, but before the partying begins one couple disappears. Only to be fount brutally murdered. A blood thirsty killer is stalking their summer playground. One by one bodies begin to show up, as they become prey to the venomous vengeance-seeking maniac.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher horror
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The Prey (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
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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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Voices of Desire (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young woman recounts her claims that she was involved in a cult whose members were either murdered or committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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Mortuary (1982)
Plot Summary:
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul and both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, cult film
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Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Satan's Mistress (1982)
Plot Summary:
A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn't quite say who he is.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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The Velvet Vampire (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is in reality a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, gothic, humorous, serious, suspenseful
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Scalps (1983)
Plot Summary:
Silly group of college science students go an dig around in an indian burial ground for artifacts. Unfortunately, one of them becomes possessed by the evil spirit of Black Claw so he must therefore slaughter all of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, wild, cult film
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Three on a Meathook (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love, the father worries about a repeat performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult horror, independent film, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, teen horror
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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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Black Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one. A remake of the 1974 horror movie, Black Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, christmas horror, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, erotic