Best movies like Moonstalker
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Plot Summary:
A family of tourists vacationing in the woods and a group of camp counselors training in the same forest both find themselves being terrorized by a vicious unhinged psycho.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Berserker (1987)
Plot Summary:
Six young adults in the woods run afoul of a berserker, a viking warrior who dons the fur and snout of a bear, and are slain in turn by him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, crying
Similar in 83%
Mother's Day Massacre (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: a young man’s search for his estranged mother leads him to a terrifying encounter with ‘Pineys’, backwoods hillbillies with a taste for violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
Similar in 77%
Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mike Strauber catches his wife Sharon in bed with his best friend Jerry. He gets mad and takes off to embark on an adventure of murder and self-mutilation in demented games of truth or dare.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, splatter, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 87%
Iced (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 87%
Blood Frenzy (1987)
Plot Summary:
A maniac tries to kill off a group of teenagers on an encounter session in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror, weird
Similar in 79%
Carnage: The Legend of Quiltface (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four students set out for the barren Nevada desert on a class photography assignment. They are soon confronted by a machete-wielding maniac known as Quiltface.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 82%
Death Screams (1982)
Plot Summary:
Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love couple Bob and Kathy, coach, Neil Marshall, waitresses, timid blonde Lily and comely, nubile Ramona, their boss Jackson and learning difficulties teenage peeping tom Casey who's dad Avery is the town sheriff. Several them decide to spend the night down at the river, where a unknown double homicide climaxed there some nights before. But among the fairgoers is the one responsible for the deaths and as they are lurking in the shadows troubled over a tragic past (or just about one thing or another) deciding to take their frustrations out with a machete on those they blame for all the misfortunes in their life. Following the group back to their riverside stamping grounds they set about ensuring no one leaves the area alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, bloody, cult classic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Dark Heritage (1989)
Plot Summary:
An uncredited adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear." After a violent thunderstorm, mutilated bodies are found at a Louisiana campground. Investigative reporter Clint Harrison uncovers a dark local legend about the reclusive Dansen clan, who may be connected with the murders. Determined to dig up the truth, Clint and his buddies decide to spend a stormy night at the seemingly abandoned Dansen mansion.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, slasher, independent film
Similar in 75%
Pillow Party Massacre (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a bullying incident leads to tragedy, four former High school friends reconnect at a vacation home where a maniacal killer stalks the night.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 79%
Blood Stalkers (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two couples – Mike (Jerry Albert) and Jeri (Celea Ann Cole), Daniel (Kenny Miller) and Kim (Toni Crabtree) – go out to a hunting lodge that Mike inherited from his father and find the locals a little less than welcoming….
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Bagman (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, Pooh and Piglet, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, independent film, spooky
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The Last Slumber Party (1988)
Plot Summary:
On their last day of high school, Linda, Tracy and Chris celebrate by having a slumber party at Linda's house. A few boys drop by and the beer flows like wine. Just good, clean, fun-loving kids. But the girls have another visitor, one they don't yet know about. Hiding in the house is a homicidal maniac who has just escaped from a mental hospital. Armed with a scalpel, the nut slashes a little here, a little there as he sneaks from room to room. One by one the guests start disappearing. What evil lurks there? What nightmare world have they entered? The plot is twisted inside out leaving you stunned and clinging to your chair as you witness shock after horrifying shock. The ending will leave you breathless. And now, the blood flows like wine. Features a heavy metal rock sound track by FIRSTRYKE.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, surprise ending, splatter, independent film
Similar in 82%
A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 82%
Night Ripper! (1986)
Plot Summary:
A guy who does glamour shots for models and the like gets mixed up in a series of mutilation killings. The murders bare a resemblance to those committed by Jack the Ripper, and the victims are all models. Naturally, the photographer becomes a suspect. He also falls for one of his models and must try to protect her from the true killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror, low-budget
Similar in 90%
Body Count (1986)
Plot Summary:
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, teen horror, cult classic, terrifying, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 86%
The Prey (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 87%
Mortuary (1982)
Plot Summary:
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul and both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 76%
Kill Her Goats (2023)
Plot Summary:
Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 76%
ThanXgiving (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of film students travel deep into the woods to make a movie, thinking that they've found the perfect location in the form of an abandoned campground.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, independent film, slasher horror, student film
Similar in 83%
Home Sweet Home (1981)
Plot Summary:
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, grindhouse
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Three Days in the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone love camping in the woods. It's usually a calm, relaxing getaway. For five friends, it's the perfect way to send off one of their own. Amongst the partying and debauchery comes something much more sick and depraved. The five friends find themselves hunted by unknown killers. With the woods working against them, will they fall one by one or will they survive the next Three Days in the Woods? Mad Angel Films and Wicked Six Productions show you a glimpse of the evil that lie within the innocuous. Directed by Matthew A. Peters and written by Mark Joseph Peek, Three Days in the Woods will shock and disgust you. We promise.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
Similar in 78%
Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, teen horror
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Pickaxe (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1982, a group of campers was horribly slaughtered at Camp Arapaho in the sleepy little town of Woodland Hills. The 10 gruesome murders were blamed on Alex Black, a mysterious man believed to have been the son of Satan himself, whom the townspeople had hunted down and lynched nearly 20 years prior. A young woman named Adrienne was able to defeat Alex and put a stop to the killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 86%
Friday the 13th: Vengeance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Friday the 13th fan film. Friday the 13th Vengeance combines death, brutality and creativity to bold storytelling in this dark take on the franchise.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, bloody, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Trick (2019)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic, splatter, detective, independent film
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Bastard (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, disturbing, perverse, bizarre
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
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The Burning (1981)
Plot Summary:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult horror, classic horror, bloody, creepy, spooky, terrifying
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The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, splatter, intense