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Plot Summary:
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological, controversial, grindhouse, atmospheric, depressing, dark comedy
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Cover Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates (Keith and Rupert Davies) were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie (Kim Butcher) begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, gothic horror, creepy, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, dark comedy, psychological, atmospheric
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Dead of Night (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young soldier who was thought to be killed in the line of duty in Vietnam returns home shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of his family. Upon his return, he exhibits strange, withdrawn behavior and begins wandering the streets at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, scary, independent film, disturbing, intellectual, bad ending, suspense, surreal
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Visiting Hours (1982)
Plot Summary:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary, bloody
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The Cannibal Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychological, gothic, bloody, political, suspense, disturbing, controversial
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The House by the Lake (1976)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, realistic
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The Driller Killer (1979)
Plot Summary:
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, terrifying, bloody, controversial
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Plot Summary:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, satanic, controversial, grindhouse, anamorphic, cult classic
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Tony (2009)
Plot Summary:
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, twisted, thought provoking, bloody, suspense
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Motel Hell (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, slasher, parody, humorous, dark comedy, rough, psychological, atmospheric, gothic
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Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller
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Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" Leatherface, the story of real life serial killer Ed Gein is told once again. Nicknamed "The Butcher Of Plainfield," Gein was responsible for a rash of gory murders that sent shock waves through his rural Wisconsin town, and across America, in the late 1950's. Prepare to enter the evil mind and twisted world of "The Butcher Of Plainfield.".
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." before his arrest.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher
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Ed Gein (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, dark, psychological horror, scary, serious
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Dahmer (2002)
Plot Summary:
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life. Certain characters and events are fictional.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized, rough, suspense, suspenseful, dark, controversial
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Fear (1983)
Plot Summary:
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, slasher, psychological thriller, scary, bleak, depressing, surreal
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Plot Summary:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological horror, slasher, controversial, mindfuck
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Maniac (1980)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial, bloody, psychological, frightening, brutal
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Maniac (2012)
Plot Summary:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, psychological, suspenseful, dark, rough, psychological thriller, splatter
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, bloody, dark, splatter
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
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Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
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Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic, bloody, splatter, creepy, tense, suspense
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
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Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, realistic, independent film, sadistic, psychological, brutal, creepy, cult classic, tense
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
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A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
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The Collector (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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You're Next (2011)
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When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
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Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
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Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Zodiac (2005)
Plot Summary:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
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