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Plot Summary:
In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, bloody, demonic, independent film
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The Telling (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this horror anthology film, three girls pledge the most popular - and cruelest - sorority on campus. For their final task, they must tell the scariest story they know. Containing three distinct stories - one featuring a murderous doll, one a has-been actress and her run in with a film crew of the undead and, finally, a hunt-and-kill fright-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, independent film, surprise ending, campy
Similar in 84%
Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that Anna is more dangerous than he ever would have thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, sexy, suspense, slasher, psychological horror, scary, psychotronic
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Nine Lives (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
Similar in 87%
The Silent Scream (1979)
Plot Summary:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, creepy
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Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, rough
Similar in 88%
Flashback (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, realistic, teen horror
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An American Terror (2014)
Plot Summary:
Josh wakes each day to a series of Hells. Between uncaring parents and bullying at school he has little to live for. After a brutal event and ensuing humiliation of an online video, Josh and his friends decide to take revenge by staging a massacre at the homecoming dance. Searching for weapons, they find a man who perpetuates a far more murderous darkness than even their plot might suggest. Trapped in his lair, and finding a kidnapped girl from the opposite clique, the boys learn a lot about each other’s character and their own. Even if Josh can rescue the captive cheerleader, he must still lead them both out in time to stop his friend from completing the pact to massacre their school. An American Terror is an explosive and surprising modern day horror mash-up. Totally and relentlessly disquieting – great atmosphere and sound and perfectly gruesome.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, slasher
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Animus (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by a blood thirsty maniac.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Somebody Help Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, slasher horror
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Kristy (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, melancholic, dark, slasher, bleak, cynical, bloody, christmas horror, grindhouse
Similar in 81%
11:11 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers '11:11' that was scratched in blood beside her mother's body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she gets closer to the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Similar in 89%
Dead Tone (2007)
Plot Summary:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, realistic, psychological, suspense, light, detective
Similar in 89%
Pray for Morning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To survive the night, the friends must solve a century-old mystery that threatens to annihilate them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 84%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting, humorous, suspense, independent film
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 75%
Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
Similar in 81%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
Similar in 86%
Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, bloody, suspense, teen horror, queer horror
Similar in 76%
The Pool (2001)
Plot Summary:
School's out, exams are over, and it's time for real life to begin. But before 12 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth, they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea to stage the party in Prague's biggest swimming pool is illegal but cool. And when Gregor, the laid-back leader of the group thinks an idea is good, then no-one else from the group objects. But what begins as the night of all nights quickly turns into a life and death struggle, as the friends come to realise that death itself is on the guest list... A mysterious masked killer sets a hunt in motion that ranges through the facility's halls and corridors. As the kids panic it begins to dawn on them that the killer must be one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting, bloody, suspense, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 88%
The Toybox (2005)
Plot Summary:
It all began so innocently for two children growing up in the deepest countryside, their imaginations set ablaze by a book on local myths and legends. Berenice convinces her younger brother Brian that she is the reincarnation of a witch with the powers to put everything right. As they grow up Brian becomes emotionally dependent on his sister, so that when she returns to the family home for Christmas with her new boyfriend he feels totally betrayed. At the same time a man strongly resembling the mythical Jake the Mid-Folker is closing in. An overwhelming sense of impending horror surrounds the house, but is the enemy outside - or is the enemy within?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, christmas horror, slasher, brutal, suspense, serious
Similar in 85%
The Initiation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered illegally. Trapped in a new nightmare, Kelly must fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychological thriller, independent film
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Dark House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, demonic, cult horror, awful
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Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, realistic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Fear Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five students on spring break meet at a secluded island cabin for a weekend getaway. Stranded on the island they become the prey of a mysterious killer who seems bent on revenge for something the friends have done.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, slasher, suspense, dark, tense, disturbing, realistic
Similar in 78%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
Similar in 79%
The Grudge 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surreal, stylized, psychological, serious, creepy
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Door Lock (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-min lives alone in a one-room apartment. One day, she found a trace of a stranger breaking into her room and soon a mysterious murder case begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, psychological thriller
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My Soul to Take (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy