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Plot Summary:
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship. He also discovers that his mother's best friend wishes to get closer to him, even if it means murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Terror at Tenkiller (1986)
Plot Summary:
Unsuspecting college students are stalked by a killer at a lake during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, relaxing, slasher horror, independent film
Similar in 75%
Blood Delirium (1988)
Plot Summary:
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for "inspiration". He soon meets a beautiful musician who looks exactly like his late wife and brings her back to his castle. However, she eventually discovers their secret: the butler murders young women, disposes of their bodies and uses their blood--"the color of life"--for the artist's paints.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Dreadtime Stories (2014)
Plot Summary:
A party turns bizarre when a malevolent book makes its way into the hands of the attendees who reveal its tales of monsters, madmen and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, bleak, scary, dark fairy tale, road movie
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Paint It Black (1989)
Plot Summary:
A California metal sculptor (Rick Rossovich) becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover (Sally Kirkland).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent 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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Deadly Intruder (1985)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Sweet Kill (1972)
Plot Summary:
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Caregiver (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Paige Hopkins begins working at a halfway house for degenerate teenage girls, she believes that her syrupy sweet disposition is just what the girls need to find their path to redemption. But these hardened street girls show Paige that she couldn't be more out of place. So Paige quickly adapts to their ways - which includes beatings, torture and even murder - all delivered with a smile. Gradually, it becomes clear that she may be more troubled than any of her charges. Written by Brain Damage Films.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Mailman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly Mailman in a small, placid suburban town. Darius Foxx scarred for life as a young boy by seeing his parents brutally murdered, comes back to town as the new Mailman to torment his younger brother, Daniel, and Daniel's adopted family.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Vampire at Midnight (1987)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Bikini Mayhem (2015)
Plot Summary:
All Ivy Winters wanted was to be a model. After meeting with a potential agent, it seemed like her career was finally on the right path. But she soon finds herself drugged and humiliated. With her life spiraling out of control, Ivy is on the fast track to destruction. When tragedy strikes, she quickly realizes it's time to enact bloody revenge on those who destroyed her dreams. It's time for a little...Bikini Mayhem!.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Assimilate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, satanic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending, dark, slasher
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Another Kind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of unprepared weekend hikers go missing while snowshoeing in the Catskill Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Sculptress (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, mysterious, independent film, scary, realistic, demonic, crying
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Succubus: Hell-Bent (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes what happens at Spring Break doesn't stay at Spring Break... it follows you home.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film, rough, erotic
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The Stepdaughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a childhood spent going from one abusive foster home to the next, Susan seeks revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Susan's search leads her to a ranch where her long-lost sister begins to suspect the beautiful drifter isn't who she claims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, scary
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Scissors (1991)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited to a mysterious apartment things get worse and worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
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Riding the Bullet (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1969, Alan Parker (Jackson) is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine. He becomes obsessed with death, and believing he is losing his girlfriend, Jessica (Christensen), he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him, and he recovers. He receives news that his mother is dying and decides to hitchhike, in an attempt to reach his dying mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, talky, intense, road movie, splatter, harsh, atmospheric
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Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, captivating
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Blood Relic (2005)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, independent film, scary, surprise ending, splatter, awful
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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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The Landlady (1998)
Plot Summary:
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, scary, slasher, independent film, detective, tension, suspense
Similar in 77%
Teacher's Pet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and dies out of fear of Debbie and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students and faculty who get in the way with her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, surprise ending
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Parasomnia (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, slasher, independent film, detective
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Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Horror Vault Vol.1 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nine short tales of horror filmed by various directors are presented together in one chilling volume, featuring enough killers, psychopaths and supernatural demons to satisfy the most demanding fans of human perversity and madness. Featured titles include "Dead to the World," an homage to the legacy of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, and "When John Met Julia," in which two strangers meet and quickly run afoul of one another.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: disturbing, anthology, psychological, rough, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, serious, realistic
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The Kiss of Her Flesh (1968)
Plot Summary:
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Animals (2009)
Plot Summary:
Syd Jarrett is an unsuspecting, down-and-out man in a washed-up hick town who gets pulled into a sub-culture of blood-hungry creatures. He encounters Vic, a renegade whose animal instincts are stronger than his human ones. As things begin to get even worse, Jarrett realizes that his best chance for happiness, and survival, lies in his true love for Jane.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, erotic, captivating, suspenseful, touching, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Mikey (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died of mysterious "accidents" that weren't really accidents at all. Mikey is a cold blooded killer, and it doesn't take long for him to aim his sights on his new adoptive family and anyone else who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, grindhouse
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Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious