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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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The Love Butcher (1975)
Plot Summary:
The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Death Kiss (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jim Preston receives a yacht as an anniversary present from his wealthy wife Ellen. He plans to kill her for her entire fortune. To carry out the murder plan, he makes a contact with Mike, a crazed rape killer who has been terrorizing the city. Mike agrees to be the assassin for a large quantity of heroin. However he suspects that Preston will kill him as soon as his assignment is complete, so he finds a woman who looks exactly like Ellen and kills her instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, independent film, grindhouse
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Wicked, Wicked (1973)
Plot Summary:
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, psychological thriller, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, slasher horror, mad, psycho film
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The Sleeper (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at their most vulnerable and murders them. The police hunt for the missing girls and their killer, but will they find them in time? Or will the girls be forced to fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, bloody, grindhouse, independent film, slasher horror
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Hell's Trap (1989)
Plot Summary:
Seven young people go to a desolated forest looking for a bear, what they don't know is that a crazy Vietnam vet lives there and he is waiting for fresh blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, mysterious, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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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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Torment (1986)
Plot Summary:
A detective sets out to capture a psycho who kills women, but the psycho turns the tables and goes after the detective's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, sadistic, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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Lucid (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Summer of Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ungodly brutal beatings turns Chris, a young man, into a fiend that sets off a bloody, like never before seen, rampage. Beauty is truly only skin deep - Watch a young paraplegic, whose body is also wrecked with spinal bifida, fight for her life as her older, beautiful sister tries to murder her. It’s been 36 years since Jesse’s loving mother was raped by his biological father. Now, after hiding and running their entire lives in fear of this murderous rapist --- He has found them! A group of Christian teenagers are stalked, mamed and burned by a local legend in a haunted forest. Three legendary serial killers terrorize downtown Los Angeles by murdering countless innocent souls and the killer plan is to go out with a real bang. There’s nothing like the sweltering heat of summer to set off a massacre. The Summer of Massacre is a 100 mph slasher ride that never slows down. Packed with enough gore and insanity to send you looking for your barf bag.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, underground film, psychotronic, art house, anthology, sinister, extreme horror, creepy, grotesque
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Forced Entry (1976)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist stalks and murders prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Scum of the Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where pregnant wife Emmy, thick-as-a-brick son Bo, and available-since-she-was-twelve daughter Sarah, do their best to give her a "family" welcome. While Helen's immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, psycho film, awful
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Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie' bakery who abducts a number of customers from the barber shop and kills them and helps the couple make "meat pies" out of the dead victims for sale.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, psychological thriller, slasher, sadistic, splatter, independent film, gay cinema, psycho film, awful
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Midnight Killer (1986)
Plot Summary:
Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder may have been committed by the so-called "Midnight Ripper". The only problem is that the Midnight Ripper has been dead for several years.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, creepy, awful
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The Mutilator (1984)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Ed was cleaning his father's hunting rifles for as part of a surprise birthday treat for his old man when one firearm accidentally discharges fatally striking his own mother in the back. His father, Jack Sr came home, saw his wife dead, and blaming his own offspring tried to commit infanticide before Ed managed to escape his father's murderous antics. Leaving his old man to sleep into mournful psychosis as he began pouring whiskey down his slain wife's throat. Ed now in his teens returns back to his family home, his dad long since supposedly vanished...only he hasn't and has been waiting for a chance to even the score with his kid...right about...now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, psychological, serious, realistic, bloody, scary, retro, cult classic, classic horror
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Final Exam (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious, psychotronic, retro, cult classic, independent film, sadistic
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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
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Blood Song (1982)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, bloody, psychological thriller, independent film, psycho film, cult film
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Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Madman (1981)
Plot Summary:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult horror, independent film, suspense
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The Night Watchman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jack wants to prove to his wife Alma, that he is a new man after his drug abuse and time spend in prison. He is offered new job as a night watchman of an old mine complex, which he accepts without a question. What no one knows that the dark place holds a disturbing secret that will fill their lives with terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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Maniac (1980)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial, bloody, psychological, frightening, brutal
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Maniac (2012)
Plot Summary:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, psychological, suspenseful, dark, rough, psychological thriller, splatter
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See No Evil (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago -- band together to survive against the brutal killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological thriller, dark, controversial
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Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last man any traveler to the region ever wants to meet; Mick Taylor (John Jarratt). As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland. Only one will remain to be dragged back to his lair to witness the true magnitude of his monstrosity. And if the last man standing is to have any hope of surviving where no one else has survived before, he’ll have to use every ounce of cunning to outwit the man behind the monster and become every bit as ruthless as the monster inside the man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, brutal, bloody, terrifying, realistic, psychological
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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
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The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Plot Summary:
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in addition to terrified teenagers, he meets a young boy named Tommy who has a special talent for horror masks and make up, leading up to a horrifying, bloody battle! Has Jason finally met his match?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful, spooky, teen horror, slasher horror, psychological
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, brutal, splatter