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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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Sadisticum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sadisticum tells the story of a man for whom there seems to be only one purpose in life, the torture and killing of others. At age 17, he has already killed two people. But he manages to suppress his appetite for many years. Half of his life he spent with working and adapting the company externally. But the void in his life has been increased steadily, until one day it happens again, he kills. Only this time he would not stop, this time he would give free rein to his appetite. But even by the brutal killing of his fellow man, he learns no more satisfaction. His ever-growing need for recognition is driving him to create some kind torture course. He'd selected peers point to which way is best torturing anyone without killing him early. But it does not stop at a seminar, his addiction to attention and admiration grows into the vast, ever more cruel torture methods he tried. But one day, the story takes a surprising turn.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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The Perfect Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Drawing Blood (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bodies begin to pile up the moment George Adam's wife leaves town for the weekend. George's past comes back to him, but its nothing like his current life in a safe, calm suburban home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film
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Bleed with Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
Laura is having a day that can hardly get any worse, but then she stumbles into a cabdriver and things are about to get even worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial, extreme 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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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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Death Cast (2022)
Plot Summary:
Six young and hopeful actors land roles in an experimental horror film shooting on a remote location. Their performances will be captured without any crew present in a single, uninterrupted take by cameras and drones positioned around the set. As the day progresses, the line between the film they are shooting and actual terror is blurred as they find themselves in a real life-or-death situation.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense
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School of Horror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring filmmaker Rocky Horror (Robert Baldassari) devises a dangerous plan to create a surefire terror hit when he lures several film school classmates to a haunted tavern, hoping to capture footage of them being attacked by a legendary monster. But when the creature finally appears, Rocky and his fellow students realize that the blood and corpses are real, not special effects, and that the action may not stop when the director yells "cut.".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film
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Evil Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of rich college brats conspire to play a prank on Jimmy Fisher, the school nerd. But when Jimmy ends up unconscious, the co-eds leave him and head out to a party. What they don't realize is that, when Jimmy wakes up, the evil inside of him triggers and he sets out for revenge as he offs his tormentors in some very original ways: exploding cigarettes, beer bottles, mops, spiked frat paddles and more.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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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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Forgotten Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman with amnesia tries to restart her life until the past comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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Babysitter Wanted (2008)
Plot Summary:
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy (Kai Caster) for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright (Sarah Thompson) becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling outside the windows. Angie gets the drop on the would-be killer, but quickly discovers that her nightmare has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, bloody, serious, suspenseful, satanic, disturbing, psychological, suspense, entertaining
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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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Nursie (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man is held captive by a sadistic nurse.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: medical horror, suspense, slasher
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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 Hitchhiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find themselves trapped with a woman-hating, masochistic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing, mockbuster, splatter, road movie
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Hitchhiker Massacre (2017)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, young hitchhiker Sally (Ely LaMay), attempts to survive the night while making her way back home as a sadistic killer and cannibalistic madman (John Blyth Barrymore) haunts the desert highways, probing for fresh roadkill.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, sadistic
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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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Intrusion: Disconnected (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nearly a year after the events of Intrusion the mysterious death of the rose bud killer leaves questions unresolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Eritrea, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, tension, twisted, cult film
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The Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Death Row (2007)
Plot Summary:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, independent film
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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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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Intruder (1989)
Plot Summary:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, retro, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
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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
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher
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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