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Plot Summary:
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, spaghetti western, wild
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Stage Fright (1980)
Plot Summary:
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spaghetti western, slasher horror, wild
Similar in 75%
Enter the Devil (1972)
Plot Summary:
Enter the Devil is a great American-made B horror movie. People are disappearing in the wastelands. An occult researcher discovers that a devil-worshipping cult is responsible. Her inquiries lead her into great danger. Who can she trust? Very well acted by a cast of unknowns. Gritty and atmospheric.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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The Dead Are Alive (1972)
Plot Summary:
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, erotic, brutal, cult classic, classic horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic
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Massacre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute is brutally killed by the road side by a maniancal killer. Nearby a horror film is being produced but the director is worried that the script is too passé for a modern audience and so he plans to include a séance scene - he hires a real medium to carry out a ceremony with the cast and crew to help inspire the script but she is attacked by an evil spirit. Meanwhile members of the cast are being picked off one by one and police detective Walter is desperate to stop his girlfriend, the lead actress Jennifer, becoming the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 77%
The Monster of Blackwood Castle (1968)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher
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Sawney: Flesh of Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it….
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, crying
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Death of the Jackal (1984)
Plot Summary:
A psycho-killer is on the loose targeting only young women. Grisly deaths pile up, one after another. The real problem is not finding out who he is, but instead, how to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, splatter, slasher horror
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Blood Voyage (1976)
Plot Summary:
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
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Destroyer (1988)
Plot Summary:
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, bloody, independent film
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Night of Fear (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young girl (Carla Hoogeveen) who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man (Mike Dorsey), gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorised by a drooling, gibbering psycho (Norman Yemm), who also has a colony of rats.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: twisted, psychological thriller, crying, independent film, weird
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Nightmare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, slasher, bloody, queer horror, psychotronic
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Possession (1987)
Plot Summary:
Frankie is a psychopath who drags along problems with his mother. To compensate these problems he follows and persecutes Madeleine and some of her friends killing one girl after the other and also everybody who would stand in his way - without any reason or comparison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Strip Club Slasher (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of strippers struggle to keep themselves safe while detectives try to figure out who is killing them off.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, humorous, captivating
Similar in 79%
Deadly Dreams (1988)
Plot Summary:
From the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, bloody, christmas horror, suspense thriller, independent film, slasher horror
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The Clinic (2010)
Plot Summary:
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, rough, serious, christmas horror, sexy, suspense, creepy, cult classic, spooky
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New Terminal Hotel (2010)
Plot Summary:
Don Malek (Stephen Geoffreys) isn't the usual tenant found in the skid row hotels of downtown L.A. Grief-stricken since the murder of his fiancee Katherin, the successful screenwriter-turned murderous vigilante is bent on revenge against studio head Stanley Glissberg, the man cleared of murder charges in Katherin's death. Don can't forget - and Glissberg's going to pay. Enter Don's tenacious literary agent, Ava Collins (Tiffany Shepis), who tracks him down and wants to sell his manuscript - if there is one - or cut him loose. He assures her he's holed-up in the cheap room to write, and his story's a work-in-progress. Adding to his slippery slope, Don calls in a favor from a neighbor, and in doing so, uncovers despicable abuses down the hall. Spitz (Ezra Buzzington) is a hard-drinking former Marine and paraplegic, with a penchant for hookers and a violent streak. When he demands a return of the favor, Don must choose between turning a blind eye, or quickening his own destructive spiral.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Lady Stay Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
Millionairess actress-singer Marie Coleby (Deborah Couls) lives in a luxurious villa on a deserted beach. One afternoon following a TV commercial shoot at the villa she incites gardener Gordon Mason (Chard Hayward) to mayhem and murder. The unexpected arrival of Marie's sister Jenny Nolan (Louise Howitt) hinders Mason's attempts to dispose of the body. He then decides to kill Jenny. But she is equally determined to stay alive ... so begins a battle of wits. Jenny's salvation seems at hand when two security men arrive at the villa, but only one, Officer Collings (Roger Ward) survives the initial siege. Then Jenny is alone to face Mason for the final time.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, twisted, sexy, independent film, slasher horror, weird, cult film
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Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
Plot Summary:
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, disturbing, controversial, perverse, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Corpse Mania (1981)
Plot Summary:
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, detective, surprise ending, weird
Similar in 78%
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to manage their work. In the end, his obsession with devastating consequences when he captures the assassin he hunts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, psychological thriller, independent film
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Eyeball (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Calling All Police Cars (1975)
Plot Summary:
After the daughter of the prominent professor Icardi goes missing an investigation is quickly commenced, much to the chagrin of commisioner Solmi who thinks Icardi is receiving benefits because of his status and that instead the professor should be treated like anyone else would have been treated in his place. The girl is soon found, murdered, shot in the head. The investigation gets under way and with only a few, thin, leads to go by, it's not going to be an open and shut case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, psychotronic
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Phantom of Death (1987)
Plot Summary:
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, terrifying, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter
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Dance Macabre (1992)
Plot Summary:
A dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality--and his hidden personality is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, gothic, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Ryde (2017)
Plot Summary:
Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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Psycho Sisters (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mean and domineering Jane and the sweet and ditsy Jackie are two radically contrasting sisters who suffer from severe trauma after witnessing the murder/suicide of their parents as well as seeing their other sibling Janice raped and killed by her assailants. The pair are deemed fit to re-enter society and get released from a sanitarium where they have undergone extensive rehabilitation therapy. However, Jane and Jackie prove to be anything but sane and harmless as they embark on a vicious spree in which they torture, murder, and mutilate any man luckless enough to cross their lethal paths.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, suspense, splatter, independent film
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A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die (1967)
Plot Summary:
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult film
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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)
Plot Summary:
Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid is on the run from the hangman, with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side. Along with Madrid's gang, Johnny and Esmeralda embark on an adventure filled with colorful and unsavory characters who lead them straight into the fight of their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, slasher, tense, bleak, serious, funny, retro, horror comedy, cult classic