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Plot Summary:
A sociopath gathers and drugs groups of college students to bring out their existing suicidal tendencies to the surface then walks among them to enjoy and record their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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My Daughter's Deadly Roommates (2023)
Plot Summary:
New beginnings have disastrous consequences as a young woman starts college and quickly finds herself trapped inside a secret society that has sinister motives. As the society isolates her from her family with increasing intensity, she must decide whether to resign herself to their deadly manipulation, or if she will fight back to stop them once and for all. ~Courtesy of MyLifetime.com.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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High School Spirits (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two college students Kyle and Andy take it upon themselves to exorcise the haunted Fulton house, the only available place for them to stay on their college campus.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Some Are Born (2019)
Plot Summary:
Drama - A lonely young man enters college and quickly finds comfort in two mysterious filmmakers that have manipulative plans of their own. - Casey James Knight, Dana Blackstone, Dominic Ryan Gabriel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, visually appealing
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Perfect Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
About college students that experience horrifying visions from the past while undergoing a fraternity initiation.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense
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The Inherited (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. Between incest and murder lies his future, if he can survive long enough to embrace his destiny. The old adage proves true. Nothing in life is free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Twisted Twin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tess loves her mom Patricia and the horse ranch she was raised on, but she’s ready for the next chapter. Attending her college orientation weekend, she gets the surprise of a lifetime when she’s approached by Sammy Crain, who happens to be her identical twin sister! After learning the story of how they were separated at birth, Tess is excited to connect with Sammy, but when Sammy’s adoptive parents turn up dead and Tess is mistaken for her sister, she realizes she’s been duped by her twin as part of Sammy’s devious plan to steal Tess’s identity, take the family fortune and get away with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Wonder Valley (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shy, introverted Karian Edwards looks forward to a weekend at her aunt's house in the desert with her best friend, Cloudy, and their friend, Jessica. Things take a turn for the worse when Cloudy invites along a childhood friend, Sasha Mills, a down-and-out actress who is trying to escape her problems with drugs and alcohol. The four girls take datura, a powerful psychotropic drug, and things quickly turn into a nightmare as the lines between reality and hallucination blur.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, teen horror
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Margaux (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Evil Never Dies (2003)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be brought back to life as part of a professor's experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, mystical
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Blue Sunshine (1977)
Plot Summary:
At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre killings continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, disturbing, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic, mind bending, thought provoking, gothic horror, controversial, grindhouse
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Hellmaster (1992)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Exploited (2022)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his school issued laptop, a webcam model whose last session may have ended in murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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House of Dust (2013)
Plot Summary:
College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a convicted serial killer from 1950.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
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Memorial Valley Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, classic horror, independent film
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The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Plot Summary:
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
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Vlad (2003)
Plot Summary:
Death and spiritual torment stalk three American students visiting the Carpathian mountain homeland of Vlad Tepes.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, gothic, scary
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American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave the way to an FBI career, and she's willing to do anything to obtain it -- including killing her classmates. The school psychiatrist, Dr. Daniels, becomes aware that Rachel is insane, but Rachel is skilled at her dangerous game of death and identity theft.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, rough, bloody, suspense, dark, teen horror, horror comedy
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Nite Tales: The Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Actors: Flavor Flav, Dante Basco, Chico Benymon, Andrea Bogart, James Ferris.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, anthology, tense, psychological, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Circle (2010)
Plot Summary:
When remorseless killer James Bennett escapes from lockdown in a mental hospital, an FBI agent and a U.S. Marshal track the madman to his hometown, where he plans to slay a group of graduate students studying his case. But to catch their prey, the officers must plumb the mysteries of psychology, Greek mythology and more.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, independent film, realistic, suspense
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Simon Says (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, scary
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Kristy (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, melancholic, dark, slasher, bleak, cynical, bloody, christmas horror, grindhouse
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Dead Tone (2007)
Plot Summary:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, realistic, psychological, suspense, light, detective
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Wolf Town (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kyle, a shy college student finds himself and three of his friends trapped in an old western ghost town by a pack of ferocious wolves and has to overcome his personal fears to confront the wolves and lead his friends to safety.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary
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The Legend of Bloody Mary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game "Bloody Mary." Amy had stumbled onto a website on the Internet (www.marked4mary.com) about a witch called Bloody Mary and a game to summon her evil spirit. Now a senior in college, Ryan is reaching a mental breaking point from the years of stress and guilt from his sisters disappearance. His girlfriend Rachel frustrated herself at Ryan's emotional distance and self pity, calls for help to a former professor of Ryan's, Father O'Neal. Father O'Neal is both a priest and a archaeologist who decides to help Ryan end his tormenting grief by using his detective skills and wit to figure out what exactly happened to Ryan's sister, and uncover the truth to the Legend of Bloody Mary.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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Hell Night (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, rough, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, psychological, black and white
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After Midnight (1989)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, psychological, mind bending, creepy, dark fairy tale, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
Plot Summary:
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, erotic, suspense, cult classic, tense, sexual, independent film, suspenseful, scary
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Plot Summary:
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to examine their "treasure," they unleash the vengeful spirit of an Irish servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners throughout the generations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Final Exam (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious, psychotronic, retro, cult classic, independent film, sadistic