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Plot Summary:
A couple, lost in thick fog, take refuge in an old mansion next to a cemetery. Strange things start to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, psychotronic, crying
Best tv shows and movies like Maniac Mansion (1972):
Similar in 81%
House of Usher (2008)
Plot Summary:
Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Dark Places (1974)
Plot Summary:
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological, offbeat, independent film, scary, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Funeral Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, sad, gothic horror, creepy, classic horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric
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The Last House in the Woods (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman escapes a group of bullies seeking to rape her and takes refuge with a seemingly kind couple who have a dark secret hidden in their quiet, secluded house.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, brutal, bloody, underground film, controversial, scary, rough
Similar in 80%
House of Shadows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
The Ghoul (1975)
Plot Summary:
A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, odd
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Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)
Plot Summary:
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, disturbing, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, crying
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Legend of the Bog (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the dead start to mysteriously re-animate from an ancient bog an eccentric hunter, embarks on a crusade to hunt down the forsaken beasts. But when a ferocious Bog Man emerges from the murk, a powerful and ancient evil is released and the Hunter becomes the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, slasher
Similar in 89%
Ghost Lake (2004)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, experimental, psychotronic
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Blackwood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense
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Blood Sisters (1987)
Plot Summary:
In 1974, a little boy tries to talk a little girl into getting naked for him, which she refuses and calls him a pervert. He then runs home, which happens to be a brothel where several (extremely unattractive) hookers and their johns roam around in the bedrooms. The little boy comes into one room to find his mother with her john, to which he reacts by blasting them both dead with a shotgun. Thirteen years later, a woman named Linda is taking the new pledges for her sorority to the now empty brothel for a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt in the empty house is to test their maturity and courage, so if they finish the scavenger hunt without chickening out they can be part of the sorority. Once night falls the girls begin seeing apparitions of the dead hookers, and eventually the girls begin getting killed one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, scary, rough, serious, splatter, psychotronic, cult film
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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 84%
Nine Lives (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
Similar in 77%
Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
Similar in 79%
Knife of Ice (1972)
Plot Summary:
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph in the Spanish countryside. Martha's cousing Jenny arrives to be with the family but is quickly stabbed to death. It appears that a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, cult classic, twisted, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yu-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky, realistic, sinister, asian horror
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The Evil (1978)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious
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Evil Remains (2004)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, exciting, tense, rough
Similar in 87%
The Terror (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes him to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. How can he save the mysterious girl?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, serious, cult classic, classic horror, scary, stylized
Similar in 75%
Cemetery of Terror (1985)
Plot Summary:
A professor suspects that a vicious killer may have discovered a way to return from the grave and continue his violent spree. His fears are proved true when a group of teenagers decide to pull a Halloween prank by stealing the killer's body from the morgue. When the teens recite an incantation from an old magic book over the corpse, it begins to come back to life, along with all of the bodies from the nearby cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, suspense, rough, captivating, scary, bloody, gothic horror, splatter, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
Similar in 78%
Husk (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, dark, creepy, bleak, disturbing, psychological, entertaining, bloody
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The Legend of Bloody Mary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game "Bloody Mary." Amy had stumbled onto a website on the Internet (www.marked4mary.com) about a witch called Bloody Mary and a game to summon her evil spirit. Now a senior in college, Ryan is reaching a mental breaking point from the years of stress and guilt from his sisters disappearance. His girlfriend Rachel frustrated herself at Ryan's emotional distance and self pity, calls for help to a former professor of Ryan's, Father O'Neal. Father O'Neal is both a priest and a archaeologist who decides to help Ryan end his tormenting grief by using his detective skills and wit to figure out what exactly happened to Ryan's sister, and uncover the truth to the Legend of Bloody Mary.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, slasher
Similar in 81%
House of Fears (2007)
Plot Summary:
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak, psychological, psychotronic, dread
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Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
Plot Summary:
San Diego, present day: The murders are starting again. A girl has been found with two holes in her neck and her body totally drained of blood. Lt Dan Richardson [Shane Pliskin] knows what it is but doesn't believe it, so he calls in blind art-dealer Micah [Gary Busey]. Micah confirms the lieutenant's suspicion that a vampire is at work and reminds him of the previous lesson learned by Jack Frost, who was forced to kill his best friend Nat McKenzie when Nat became a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 79%
The Psychic (1977)
Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, suspense thriller
Similar in 87%
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, bloody
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Dark Ride (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody, dark, grindhouse, teen horror
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Vacancy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, creepy, tense
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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