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Plot Summary:
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, spooky, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Best tv shows and movies like How Awful About Allan (1970):
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The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
Plot Summary:
A delirious young woman (Glynis Johns) feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman (Dan O'Herlihy).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, noir, scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Hidden (2009)
Plot Summary:
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, suspense, slasher, disturbing
Similar in 87%
Slaughter (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman looks to escape her abusive life by moving to her family's farm near Atlanta. Unfortunately, she learns her place of supposed comfort offers more terrifying forms of abuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, suspense thriller, surprise ending
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Behind the Wall (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, enigmatic, suspense, scary, serious
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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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The Attic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Killer Instinct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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The Stepdaughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a childhood spent going from one abusive foster home to the next, Susan seeks revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Susan's search leads her to a ranch where her long-lost sister begins to suspect the beautiful drifter isn't who she claims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary
Similar in 76%
Disturbed (1990)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Wake Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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Deadly Renovations (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a small house flipping group discovers that their Hotel project may contain millions of cash hidden somewhere within, the project turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary, independent film, cult film
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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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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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Compound Fracture (2014)
Plot Summary:
Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed with building an unassailable compound. Once they arrive at Gary’s modest home, surrounded by acres and acres of grounds full of cameras and other security sensors, Michael is surprised and concerned to learn that his father is in the early stages of dementia. The house is now also covered in supernatural and occult symbols. Welcome to the compound, COMPOUND FRACTURE. Will the stronghold that was designed to save them be their everlasting tomb?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, touching, suspense, mind bending, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
A Demon in My View (1991)
Plot Summary:
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Acacia (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense
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The Garden (2006)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, independent film, futuristic
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13 Curses (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, offbeat, realistic
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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Plot Summary:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhile, Fran Ambrose is a radio talk show host who is discussing the topic of matricide with guest Dr. Richmond, Norman's former psychologist. The radio station receives a call from Norman, who uses the alias "Ed" to tell his story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, cult horror, bloody, suspense, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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Sight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a beautiful young woman who shares his "sight", Jeffery finds comfort in knowing someone shares his affliction. But his comfort is short lived. Dana suddenly goes missing and Jeffrey is left alone to find the answers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, scary, serious
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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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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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Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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The Darkroom (2006)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychological, suspense, teen, independent film
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Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
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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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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