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Plot Summary:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, bloody, independent film
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Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
Plot Summary:
A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, creepy, psychological thriller, retro, action thriller, independent film, sadistic, scary, mind bending
Similar in 87%
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 81%
Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
Plot Summary:
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic, brutal, grindhouse, terrifying, slasher, depressing
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Don't Go in the House (1979)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, retro, bloody, gothic horror
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Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film
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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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Madhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, suspense, dark, psychological horror
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Scrapbook (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, controversial, bloody, suspense, dark, intense
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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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New Year's Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, rough, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, serious
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Intruder (1989)
Plot Summary:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, retro, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror
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House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
Plot Summary:
Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into hers where he throws her into the back seat and proceeds to savagely rape her before strangling her to death. He takes her locket as a trophy to another one of his many killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, sexual, surprise ending, suspense, controversial, dread, cult classic, terrifying
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Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, erotic, suspense, detective, light, disturbing, creepy, perverse
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A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Plot Summary:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, metafiction, creepy, cult classic, horror musical, serious, realistic
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The Card Player (2003)
Plot Summary:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspense, detective, grindhouse, cult horror, scary
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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
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, bloody, psychotronic, psychological, controversial
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Chaos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the psychotic Chaos. The girls are abused, tortured and raped in a night of nightmare and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: rough, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, dark, controversial, cult classic
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, bloody
Similar in 85%
Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher
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The Dentist (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, medical horror, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, slasher, classic horror, suspense, bloody, dark
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The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Plot Summary:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, bloody, controversial, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic, bleak, psychological, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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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
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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
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The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, grindhouse