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Plot Summary:
Four college friends take a fateful road trip. The road, Hell's Highway--a direct route to terror. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the group manages to turn the tables. They thought they killed her, but around the next ben--around every ben-- she appears like a mirage ready to murder again. Is she the devil? Can anyone stop her killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Bloody Mary (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher, bleak, bloody
Similar in 82%
Goth (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two goth teenagers get caught up in a subculture of drugs, sex and murder after meeting a darkly savage woman with a taste for pain and deviance.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, scary, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 89%
Home Sick (2007)
Plot Summary:
A maniac with a suitcase full of razorblades unleashes a super human killer upon a group of kids in a small Alabama town. They must take up arms with a insane Chili enthusiast if they want to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, retro, disturbing, controversial, christmas horror
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Nightmares (1983)
Plot Summary:
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic, dark fairy tale, cult horror, classic horror
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Almost Human (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago. His friend Seth Hampton was the last to see him alive. Now a string of grisly, violent murders leads Seth to believe that Mark is back, and something evil is living inside of him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychotronic, disturbing, retro, psychological, suspense, mumblecore, grindhouse
Similar in 79%
The Cell 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before: go into the mind of a killer unprotected and save his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, slasher, suspenseful, exciting, serious, tech noir, sexual, cyber
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Boogeyman 3 (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now she must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, demonic, perverse
Similar in 79%
The Roost (2005)
Plot Summary:
Part of a "special" late-nite television program...Four friends on their way to a wedding find themselves marooned on a mysterious farm. Creatures of the night awaken and the undead rise, as a night of relentless horror...Begins!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, retro, dark, natural horror, slasher, independent film
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Dead Men Walking (2005)
Plot Summary:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is to escape; but once you're inside this prison, there's really no way of getting out safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, creepy, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 75%
Bunnyman (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bunnyman is the story of a group of friends on their way back from a spontaneous weekend trip to Las Vegas, and while driving through the remote regions of southern California they suddenly find themselves in a sickening game of cat and mouse with a five ton dumptruck and, when looking for help, stumble upon a nightmarish family who takes pleasure in dismembering and eating as many of the kids as possible.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 84%
Effects (1979)
Plot Summary:
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
The Hitchhiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find themselves trapped with a woman-hating, masochistic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing, mockbuster, splatter, road movie
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Plot Summary:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Cassadaga (2011)
Plot Summary:
A deaf girl attempts to contact her sister during a séance, only to connect with the ghost of a murdered woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, touching, independent film
Similar in 77%
The Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 79%
No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, underground film, detective, perverse
Similar in 81%
Animus (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by a blood thirsty maniac.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Evil Remains (2004)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, exciting, tense, rough
Similar in 85%
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Plot Summary:
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, independent film, awful
Similar in 85%
Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
Similar in 82%
Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
Similar in 89%
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
Similar in 87%
Killer Holiday (2013)
Plot Summary:
Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they get farther and farther away from civilization along old Route 66 with a killer in pursuit. Anxiety builds as each stop along the way proves stranger and stranger until the group is lured to an abandoned amusement park with a mysterious past far off the main highway. There the group discovers that the park comes complete with broken down vintage carnival rides, shocking surprises, the smell of death, and an enticing, young tattooed serial killer named Spider.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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The Butcher (2006)
Plot Summary:
A tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere finds six stranded college students fighting for their lives after making a horrifying discovery in a remote farmhouse in director Edward Gorsuch's rural frightener. With no place to run and no police station for miles, these doomed students are about to discover that down home hospitality is the last thing on the minds of the murderous family who stalks them through the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, serious, cult film, awful
Similar in 84%
Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
Plot Summary:
The United States Government has developed a highly effective nerve gas that is unleashed upon the residents of a small Maryland City. During the top secret exercise the infected citizens begin to convert each resident into a sort of living zombie, until the remaining town residents, 6 total strangers, are trapped inside a movie theater cineplex.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, exciting
Similar in 89%
Dark Ride (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody, dark, grindhouse, teen horror