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Plot Summary:
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, brutal, independent film, awful
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Similar in 86%
House of the Black Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 86%
Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 77%
Shallow Grave (1987)
Plot Summary:
Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness the local sheriff murder a woman. They try to escape before he murders them, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, road movie, suspense, vintage
Similar in 80%
Meatcleaver Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Four crazed killers, butchered his wife, son and daughter. From his hospital deathbed he called upon the power of the occult for revenge... And he got it, he really got it!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, supernatural thriller, cult film
Similar in 79%
House of Shadows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
Possession (1987)
Plot Summary:
Frankie is a psychopath who drags along problems with his mother. To compensate these problems he follows and persecutes Madeleine and some of her friends killing one girl after the other and also everybody who would stand in his way - without any reason or comparison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 79%
Black Zoo (1963)
Plot Summary:
A deranged animal lover unleashes his toothy pets on anyone who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, natural horror
Similar in 76%
Satan's Blade (1984)
Plot Summary:
At a mountain resort, a local resident is possessed by the evil spirit of an ancient mountain man, and terrorizes a ski lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 80%
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 87%
Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
Similar in 79%
The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn't know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 79%
Nightmare in Blood (1977)
Plot Summary:
Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, humorous, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, parody, horror spoof
Similar in 83%
The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 89%
Medusa (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being bitten by a lethal snake, a young woman experiences changes in her senses and appearance, as she sheds her old self and slowly turns into a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
White Dog (1982)
Plot Summary:
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill black people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, stylized, rough, thought provoking, psychedelic, natural horror
Similar in 80%
Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, sadistic, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
Similar in 79%
Cove Road (2012)
Plot Summary:
While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody, dark
Similar in 89%
Last of the Grads (2021)
Plot Summary:
A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary “Coast to Coast Killer”.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
Similar in 84%
Dogs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pack of domesticated dogs go on a killing spree in southern California.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, independent film
Similar in 82%
Strays (1991)
Plot Summary:
Family moves into new home and is attacked by stray cats.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, natural horror
Similar in 80%
The Horror Show (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
Similar in 77%
Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Ruby (1977)
Plot Summary:
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
The Entity (1982)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, splatter, sexual, slasher, terrifying
Similar in 90%
Dracula's Dog (1977)
Plot Summary:
Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird, cult film
Similar in 81%
The Stylist (2020)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, psychotronic, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, weird
Similar in 88%
Last Girl Standing (2015)
Plot Summary:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic