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Plot Summary:
Meg moves out of her parents' home and buys a beautiful old Jaguar in a bid for independence. She begins to get strange feelings about the car. It seems to have a presence beyond the usual "personality" attributed to eccentric old cars. Slowly she uncovers the shocking history of the car's previous owner, but not before the car exerts some tragic influence in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Dangerous Game (1988)
Plot Summary:
A game becomes deadly serious! An insane cop hunts down five students in a shopping mall after closing time. His life is ruined as he was dishonorably discharged from the police force because of these people. Armed with a Rambo knife and a crossbow, he initially only wants to scare them off, but when he accidentally injures one of the boys deadly, there is no turning back. The witnesses to the murder must be eliminated! So begins a relentless hunt through the mall at night….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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High Desert Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
Like every year, Jim, Ray, Brad and Paul leave the town for a week to go hunting in the woods. But this year everything is different: There's not a single animal to be found, the whole forest has fallen quiet. Two female campers they meet have mysteriously disappeared the next day, leaving their whole equipment behind. And then they start to behave weird themselves... An alien power is using them for cruel psychological experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
Similar in 81%
Out of the Body (1989)
Plot Summary:
An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, independent film
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Blind Fear (1989)
Plot Summary:
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
Similar in 76%
Deadly Strangers (1975)
Plot Summary:
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, twist ending, freeze frame
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Mommy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Patty McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann -- so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" award again, she solves the problem by murdering the teacher who didn't recommend her for it. She dismisses the killing as inconsequential ("a minor accident"), but the homicide detective assigned to the case suspects her immediately, and an insurance investigator who also suspects her tries to get close to Jessica Ann to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective, cult film
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Snapshot (1979)
Plot Summary:
Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychological, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Murder by Phone (1982)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird, eighties
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Crash! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Jealous invalid husband tries to kill sexy blond wife, who uses occult powers and devices to try to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, weird, cult film
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The Plumber (1979)
Plot Summary:
At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of a distracted doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, erotic, slasher, spooky, crime thriller, thrilling, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Prom Night II (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, teen horror, cult classic, suspense, serious, splatter, psychotronic, psychological, retro
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Midnight (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl runs away from home because police officer/stepfather puts the moves on her. Hitchhiking to California, she's picked up by two guys who are also traveling cross-country. Along the way, they decide to camp out in the woods and run across a family of Satanists who keep their dead mother in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, pastoral, psychotronic, independent film, satanic, demonic, cult film
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Razorback (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: natural horror, anamorphic, retro, suspense, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, scary
Similar in 86%
The Hearse (1980)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, tense
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Thirst (1979)
Plot Summary:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Next of Kin (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, bloody, phantasmagoric, serious, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 88%
Pin (1988)
Plot Summary:
A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, surprise ending, sexy, suspense, slasher, surreal, controversial, psychotronic
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Wheels of Terror (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small town is terrorized by an unknown stranger who kidnaps and abuses little girls. When her only child is kidnapped right in front of her, the school bus driver begins the desperate chase to catch the criminal.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, slasher
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The Fog (1980)
Plot Summary:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, splatter
Similar in 83%
Visiting Hours (1982)
Plot Summary:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary, bloody
Similar in 90%
The Pack (1977)
Plot Summary:
The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, slasher, disturbing, wild
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The Invitation (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspense, gothic, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, emotional, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Mirror Mirror (1990)
Plot Summary:
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of 'accidents'. Is the mirror a reflection of Megan's own inner demons... or has she unwittingly opened the doorway of the damned?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, tense, retro, slasher, demonic, independent film, rough
Similar in 79%
The Forest (1982)
Plot Summary:
A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychological thriller, rough, grindhouse, bloody, creepy, cult classic, splatter
Similar in 81%
Fender Bender (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to — a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, dark drama, hispanic, retro, crying
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The Attic (1980)
Plot Summary:
A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Christine (1983)
Plot Summary:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, atmospheric, slasher, creepy, grindhouse, classic horror
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Poltergeist (1982)
Plot Summary:
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh to help before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, cult classic, creepy, terrifying, splatter
Similar in 82%
You Should Have Left (2020)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, splatter, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, enigmatic, dark, twisted
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher