Best movies like Kruel
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Kruel? Contribute your expertise to navigate others toward movies and tv series you've viewed before that may also consume them. Help enlarge the circle of people referring videos between each other. We welcome your engagement!
Plot Summary:
'Kruel' - is a horror/thriller feature length movie about a psychotic killer who masquerades as an ice cream man in order to get closer to the objects of his affection.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
Best tv shows and movies like Kruel (2015):
Similar in 88%
Primal Shift (2015)
Plot Summary:
A naive and socially repressed June hits the road with her new boyfriend, Max, on their first romantic trip down the coast. When a hitchhiker suddenly winds up dead in their RV, June can't deny the overwhelming thrill and lust for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, road movie
Similar in 75%
Massacre County (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a hideous crime in a mansion by the forest, where a group of young people was found murdered, a suspicious clown tries to prove his innocence to the investigator that found him covered in blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 78%
Devil May Call (2013)
Plot Summary:
A blind young suicide-hotline operator descends into a night of unrelenting terror when an obsessive caller turns out to be a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological thriller
Similar in 83%
Hole (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is the detective looking for answers. All 3 lives intertwine with horrific consequences when their fears come upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, spiritual, cult film
Similar in 76%
Circus of the Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
A sadistic group of clowns kidnap an unsuspecting man and his daughters, forcing him to play a deadly game in order to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sadistic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
Similar in 90%
Capps Crossing (2017)
Plot Summary:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
Halloween Horror Tales (2018)
Plot Summary:
A movie featuring four stories. First is about a psychotic killer clown stalking a young woman. In the second a scream queen gets more than she bargained for when she is interviewed by a TV talk show hostess. The third is a nature run amok tale and the fourth tells the story of an FBI agent investigating a series of brutal murders in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale, independent film
Similar in 77%
The Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comic retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, from Erik the Phantom's, twisted perspective.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Joker's Wild (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a clown-masked assailant guns down Aurora's Place, the resident theater owner fights to re-open her business.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
Similar in 76%
Prom Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the school year for a group of high school friends. Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, he is determined to have them Dead On Arrival. The teens are tortured while being held hostage, and soon turn on each other for survival. By the end, we learn that one of the teens had been keeping a secret that played a bigger role in their demise.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Theatre of Fear (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Moreau Family travel around the UK putting on an underground variety show for an adult audience. But behind the curtain there is something more sinister going on than simple entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 86%
The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
Similar in 82%
Die Influencers Die (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington (Frankie Rivers) dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty Clown Model - Moxie (Tabitha Stevens) who's directed to kill these intruders by a sinister Otherworld-Coyote (Lizzy Borden). It's a bloody 80's style kill-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Camp Blood 5 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Raven, the only survivor of a previous massacre, returns to the forest to avenge her fallen friends and stop Camp Blood Killer once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film
Similar in 79%
Pig (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, extreme horror, weird
Similar in 85%
Camp Blood 8: Revelations (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Killing at Camp Blood stopped for a while. But the son of the original killer clown has carried on the machete and driven by his deranged mother, played by Sally Mullins (Things 4, Lights Out With David Spade), continues to kill anyone who trespasses in his woods. When a group of female volleyball players' vehicle breaks down in the woods, they are all potential victims of the killer clown. Their leader and coach Dolly, played by Phoebe Dollar (Hell's Highway, Sunset Society), devices a plan that is meant to help them escape, but could possible get them all killed. Is she in on the murders" Does she have a dark secret herself? All will be revealed.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Chop Chop (2020)
Plot Summary:
A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 90%
Taught in Cold Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Central Park (2017)
Plot Summary:
School is boring, family life unbearable, and Harold and his high school friends have turned Central Park into their 'spot'. Unbeknownst to them, a revenge-seeking executioner prepares to kill them off one by one to pay for the sins of the father.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, teen horror
Similar in 81%
Death Heads: Brain Drain (2018)
Plot Summary:
The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Halloween Awakening: The Legacy of Michael Myers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michael Myers stalks a group of party-goers who break into Smith's Grove Sanitarium on Halloween night.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Killer Shorts 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Faux Pas Films' third feature length film "KILLER SHORTS 2", the second installment in the horror anthology series. This movie is another throwback to the old days of horror hosts such as Elvira and the Twilight Zone that introduced the macabre scenes in frightful and comedic ways. Features 3 new shorts: "The Killer's Meow" - A group of friends decide to party in an old abandoned house but the house isn't as abandoned as they thought. When they encounter the crazy cat lady, members of the group begin to disappear. Can those remaining figure out the mystery before they too fall victim to the killer's meow? "The Last Rendezvous 2: Retribution" - We continue the story of Wendell and Samantha as a masked killer once again stalks and kills all around them. A huge cast filled with mysteries comes to light in the conclusion to the film that began in Killer Shorts 1. "The Opportunist" - Aden is struggling with kidney stones yet trying to be somewhat sociable. When he meets Melinda, spark fly.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
Similar in 78%
Backstabber (2011)
Plot Summary:
Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, thinking outside the box, and risk management as they fight for survival from a deranged killer bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Leaf Blower Massacre 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After finding out about the brutal murder of his fiancé, Shavar seeks revenge against a masked killer with a penchant for yard work weaponry. Fall will be the season of fear.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 88%
KILD TV (2016)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a local horror movie showcase, used to broadcasting creepy stories of heinous killers, finds themselves trapped with a real killer among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Face: A Frat Party Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
An annual Halloween fear competition between a fraternity and sorority goes awry when drugs, alcohol and the old battle of the sexes are mixed together. What is on the line? The losers must do anything the winners ask for one night. The bros won last year. They not only violated the loser but uploaded the footage on the internet. Jamie, the head of the sorority, wants vengeance. She has concocted a devilish plan to humiliate the frat brothers and come out on top. However, she is not aware that Matt, the head of the fraternity, has machinations of his own. Who will win this year? At what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Bad Candy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, spooky