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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
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Cold Grip (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man makes a mistake he'll regret for the rest of his life when he hits on a woman at a bus terminal in Javier Barbera's thriller. When Robert (Juan Sola) spies Greta, he wastes no time and quickly engages her in a flirty conversation. The pair leaves the bus station for a more intimate setting, but Robert's one-night stand turns into a nightmare when he discovers the sexy stranger is a killer with a deadly secret. Anna Lluch also stars.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, independent film
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Bloody Psycho (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is one of the five films legendary director Lucio Fulci supervised in 1989 to re-use some of the gory bits for his 1990 gorefest "A Cat in the Brain". "Bloody Psycho" features a haunted castle plus wimpy doctor Vogler,who is performing some sort of a psychic therapy on lesbian owner of the place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Ice House (1969)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer who works in an ice house murders women, then brings their bodies back to the ice house and stores them there. He also murders his brother, who is a cop, and takes his place in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Video Violence (1987)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife open a video store in a new town, and come to find out that the locals only rent horror films and the "occasional triple X'er", and make their own snuff videos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, spooky, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, slasher horror
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The Ghost Dance (1982)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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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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Terminal Choice (1985)
Plot Summary:
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, psychotronic, tech noir, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
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Video Violence 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy. Some viewers are shocked and horrified, but many more become avid fans, clamoring for more and more blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Grave Robbers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ruben Galindo's "Grave Robbers" tells the tale of an undead axe-wielding Satanist brought back by young grave robbers.An undead satanic priest is released from his chains of death.And he is thirsty for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, detective, teen horror, cult film
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Alice in Murderland (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's Alice's birthday and her sorority girlfriends throw her a themed party. Everyone comes as their favorite, sexy character from Wonderland. The Jabberwocky wasn't invited and brings murder and mayhem to the girls' night out.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense, independent film
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
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Lucker the Necrophagous (1986)
Plot Summary:
John Lucker is a serial rapist/murderer with a necrophilia fetish. Eight years ago, he went on a killing spree that took eight victims, until he was finally caught and institutionalized. Now he's been put in a private clinic after attempting suicide during a mental hospital transfer. He awakens from his drugged state to kill his two nurses, and then heads in for the town. When he hears on the news that one of his victims, Cathy Jordan had survived his rampage eight years ago, he becomes furious, and that rage becomes infested as a physical psychosis that can only be relieved by killing more women as he heads to kill his survivor. One the corpses he keeps to "commit the deed" with a week later before returning on his search for Cathy. He kills one woman and captures another on the way, and then finds Cathy. He psychologically torments both women, but Cathy is able to get away. Lucker, now furious, heads off to settle the score once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, bloody, experimental, controversial, psychotronic, independent film, banned film
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Memorial Valley Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, classic horror, independent film
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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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Bikini Girls on Ice (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a bus-load of women's college soccer players get stranded on their way to a bikini car-wash fundraiser, they decide to set-up shop in front of an abandoned gas station on the edge of town. Little do they know the place is the stalking-grounds for a homicidal maniac mechanic named Moe.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, sexy, horror comedy, scary
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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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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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Dead on Site (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dead On Site is the story of a group of media arts majors who decide as a final project to take over a vacant house where a family had been wiped out a year before. They plan to re-enact the murders and web-cast them on a site while they search for clues to the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, independent film
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Murder in Law (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man's mother comes from Louisiana to live with her son in San Francisco. What her son doesn't know is that Mom was confined to a mental hospital in Louisiana, and she murdered an orderly to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
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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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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense, scary, sexy, serious, realistic
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Edge of the Axe (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deranged guy in a mask kills people with an axe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, bloody, suspense, disturbing, independent film, slasher horror, cult film, awful
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StageFright (1987)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the murder, and who will get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, intense, grindhouse, rough, cult classic, stylized
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Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a Farouk-like dissolute. One suspect is Carlo, a playboy photographer who has a hot temper and refuses to share information with the police. He becomes the lover of Magda, another photographer at the agency, who's probably in danger. The murderer wears a black motorcycle outfit and helmet. Will anyone discover the murderer's identity before the entire agency dies?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, sensual, scary, tense, atmospheric