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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
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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 88%
Don't Hang Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
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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Similar in 79%
Axe (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, controversial, southern gothic, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary
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Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 79%
Horror House (1969)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, anthology, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, crying
Similar in 89%
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
Similar in 82%
Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
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
Similar in 86%
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 77%
StageFright (1987)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the murder, and who will get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, intense, grindhouse, rough, cult classic, stylized
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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
Similar in 76%
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher horror, psychological thriller
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 76%
The Last Showing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, psychological thriller, slasher, action thriller, realistic, sinister, independent film
Similar in 83%
Carl (2012)
Plot Summary:
A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, independent film, sinister, ambiguous ending
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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 84%
Blood Brides (1970)
Plot Summary:
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, grindhouse, mind bending, psychedelic
Similar in 77%
The Stepfather (1987)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, frightening, tense, neo noir, psychological thriller
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 87%
Pieces (1982)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody
Similar in 75%
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, dark, disturbing, grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, suspense, creepy
Similar in 88%
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 77%
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, intense, creepy, teen horror, twist ending
Similar in 87%
The Tortured (2010)
Plot Summary:
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, slasher, serious, scary, psychological, depressing
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Similar in 76%
Anguish (1987)
Plot Summary:
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, bloody, mind blowing
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 90%
Hush (2016)
Plot Summary:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, psychological, tense, disturbing, twist ending, psychological thriller
Similar in 78%
Halloween (1978)
Plot Summary:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher horror, psychological thriller, creepy, dark
Similar in 80%
Escapee (2011)
Plot Summary:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness shes awakened within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, slasher, realistic, independent film, suspense