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Plot Summary:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, bloody, creepy, scary, realistic
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Scarecrows (1988)
Plot Summary:
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, creepy, atmospheric, retro, bloody, frightening
Similar in 89%
Scar (2007)
Plot Summary:
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, realistic, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, bloody, suspense, independent film
Similar in 86%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
Similar in 89%
Opera (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody, creepy, grindhouse, atmospheric, surreal, controversial
Similar in 89%
Bereavement (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed. Starring Michael Biehn, Brett Rickaby, Alexandra Daddario, and John Savage. Written and Directed by Stevan Mena.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 89%
The Great American Snuff Film (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two pretty young women are abducted to be the featured stars of a snuff film produced by a couple low-life goons. The ladies are bound, gagged, tortured, burned with cigarettes and forced to dig their own graves.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, controversial, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Plot Summary:
A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, bloody, dark
Similar in 79%
Curse of the Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Genre guru Ulli Lommel (THE BOOGEYMAN, BTK KILLER) directs this horror film about the infamous Zodiac killer. Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of his identity has never been solved.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, psychological thriller
Similar in 76%
The Factory (2012)
Plot Summary:
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, scary, serious, psychological, suspense, psychotronic, crime drama
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
Similar in 89%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
Similar in 84%
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Plot Summary:
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective, intellectual, bloody, saga, splatter, slasher horror
Similar in 76%
Psycho II (1983)
Plot Summary:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" demands and begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, bloody, splatter, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 78%
The Hills Run Red (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, bloody, disturbing, splatter, psychological, epic, meta, classic horror, mindfuck
Similar in 81%
P2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, creepy, brutal, bloody, psychological thriller
Similar in 79%
Bad Samaritan (2018)
Plot Summary:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, exciting, psychotronic, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
Similar in 83%
Captivity (2007)
Plot Summary:
The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, disturbing, intense, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, splatter, dark
Similar in 76%
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 81%
The Collection (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the hospital by mercenaries hired by Elena's wealthy father. Arkin is blackmailed to team up with the mercenaries and track down The Collector's booby trapped warehouse and save Elena.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing, intense, suspense, splatter, clever
Similar in 84%
Suspect Zero (2004)
Plot Summary:
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized, intense, suspense, scary, serious
Similar in 86%
Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Plot Summary:
A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, slasher, disturbing, bloody, suspense, scary, bleak, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
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
Similar in 90%
Saw III (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, disturbing, slasher, suspense, twist ending, bloody, clever, splatter, brutal
Similar in 79%
The Strangers (2008)
Plot Summary:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, rough, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy
Similar in 83%
Saw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, splatter
Similar in 75%
Saw IV (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend...or face the deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, rough
Similar in 87%
Nine Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, twist ending, suspense, mind bending, psychological thriller
Similar in 80%
Escapee (2011)
Plot Summary:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness shes awakened within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, slasher, realistic, independent film, suspense
Similar in 78%
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, rough, slasher, scary, psychological, controversial, creepy, suspense, stylized