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Plot Summary:
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slasher horror
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Mother (1995)
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
Similar in 82%
The Inhabitant (2022)
Plot Summary:
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher horror
Similar in 89%
Grandmother's House (1988)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, Lynn and her younger brother David have to move in with their grandparents. Their mother died already when they were young, so they were told. One morning a dead man is found near their new home. A friend tells David, that it's not the first. Shortly after he sees his grandparents carry a body into the garage - are they the murderers? David calls the sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, scary, pastoral, independent film, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 87%
Fire Island (2023)
Plot Summary:
The perfect summer vacation quickly spirals out of control for a group of friends on the infamous, picturesque party getaway of Fire Island as they find themselves caught in a web of sex, lies and cold blooded murder.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: queer horror, slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 80%
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 81%
The Inherited (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. Between incest and murder lies his future, if he can survive long enough to embrace his destiny. The old adage proves true. Nothing in life is free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 81%
Virupaksha (2023)
Plot Summary:
Set in a village named Rudravanam in 1990's, Surya along with his mother, visit there after a long time. Suddenly a series of mysterious deaths occur due to an unknown person's occult practice and whole village is scared. Will Surya find the person causing the deaths and save the village?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Erotic Circus (1969)
Plot Summary:
Decadent swinging speed dealer Louie and his two lady friends Mary and Debbie decide to pay a visit to Louie's sister, who lives in a remote woodland area with her meek son Jamie and weird caretaker Yenos. However, things soon turn nasty when a killer decides to start bumping off the unwanted guests.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: erotic, slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 85%
Blood Voyage (1976)
Plot Summary:
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 87%
Terminal Choice (1985)
Plot Summary:
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, psychotronic, tech noir, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 76%
The Wind (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, suspense, cult film
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 77%
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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Death Nurse 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 76%
American Weapon (2014)
Plot Summary:
American Weapon is the story of six beautiful travelers who head to the mountains for a getaway weekend, only to be terrorized by a homicidal war veteran, who has been programmed to kill without remorse.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, slasher
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BreadCrumbs (2011)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time ... Angie, an aging star reluctantly goes on one last shoot for a seedy Producer, on location, in an enchanting old cabin deep in the shadowy forest. While on the shoot the cast and crew encounter Henry, and his little sweet sister Patti, two strange and mysterious children who seem to live in the woods. A violent attack on the second evening of shooting sends Angie and the rest of the crew into a frighten frenzy. They lock themselves into their secluded cabin and find themselves trapped and surrounded by an unknown assailant. Could these two children be responsible for these vicious attacks?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror, fairy tale
Similar in 82%
Candy Corn (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, brutal, dark, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing, intense
Similar in 76%
American Gothic (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Soul Looting (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him know about that situation. But after a while, she gets to know why those hallucinations became a part of her being.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 79%
The Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Friends head off to the remote island of Martha's Vineyard to celebrate New Year's Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
Similar in 87%
Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 82%
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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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
Similar in 88%
Bloodshed (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers live alone in a shack in the woods, trying to overcome their abusive past. But when a girl is killed nearby, fearing retribution from the townspeople, they cover up her death, kidnap the only witness and embark on a murderous journey.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Dentist 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town under a false name and takes on the responsibilities of the town dentist Things are starting to look up for Caine, until the day when he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. Just as in the first movie, this sends him back over the edge and into another homicidal rampage, with his unfortunate patients bearing the brunt of his hostility.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, dark, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Hangman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Returning from vacation, the Miller family find their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Nightlight (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five friends play a game in a "mysterious" forest with a long history as a beacon for troubled young people contemplating suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, slasher, teen horror, slasher horror, fake documentary
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The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film