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Plot Summary:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory monster - convince the local police that Martin is somehow responsible, and soon he comes to believe it too, as all the victims are connected to the evil within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Beautiful People (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of thieves have the tables turned on them during a home invasion. Hidden in the basement they find the remains of secret viral lab experiments gone savagely wrong. Now they must escape before they are infected with a new strain of virus that turns its victims into mutated psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, extreme horror, splatter
Similar in 88%
The Final Curtain (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face the consequences for their actions.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 88%
The Amityville Murders (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, demonic, splatter, psychotronic
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Bio Slime (2010)
Plot Summary:
Seven misfits are trapped by a flesh eating slime creature. And no TV!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, psychotronic
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Shapeshifter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat Glazer and A.J. Hammond make up the ensemble cast of this independent horror thriller from director Gregory Lemkin, who also shares screenwriting credits.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Stitch (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to burn away emotional baggage. Unfortunately the amateur ritual goes awry, and cosmic forces are unleashed, revealing something sinister ravaging each person with a progression of gruesome, medieval surgical scars. As the stitches rip skin and tear apart relationships, a battle for survival ensues, forcing the couples to come to terms with loss, betrayal, love, and hope.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense
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Savage Harvest 2: October Blood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tyge Murdock, a successful director of low-budget horror films, has been chasing monsters his whole life. When an actor is accidentally killed on the set of his latest production, Tyge returns to his hometown to reassess his life. But all new nightmares await him there… His path soon crosses that of Ashley Lomack, his high school sweetheart who vanished from his life after a gruesome mass murder ten years earlier. The sole survivor of this massacre was Ashley’s older sister Mikki. Consumed by the rumors of demonic possession surrounding the murders, Tyge soon finds himself trapped in a deadly chain of events. The demonic forces erupt once more for another night of terror and carnage. Tyge, Ashley and their friends must now unravel a bizarre mystery as the night of gore-splattered violence engulfs them!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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Ritual (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls Tom to help but now they've found a VHS tape that depicts a satanic ritual in which a woman is murdered. Lovely desperately wants to leave and they do, but Tom forgot his engraved lighter in the room, and when they go back to find it, the dead body appears missing.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, mumblecore, realistic
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Dead Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends' impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable... or something entirely more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, touching, tense, suspense, slasher
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Basement Jack (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, low-budget
Similar in 87%
Slaughtered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, scary, realistic
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Maneater (2009)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scenic, scary, slasher
Similar in 79%
Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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The Crypt (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of crypts the group tries to escape alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough
Similar in 79%
Bled (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood to cross over from his world to hers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sexy, tense, captivating, scary, serious, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
Similar in 87%
Exit 38 (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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The Open Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
Similar in 86%
Mothman (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough
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Nailbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky
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Boggy Creek (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her father in a terrible accident, sweet, yet troubled Jennifer and her friends decide to check out her dad's cabin that's located in the deep woods of Boggy Creek, Texas. While staying at said cabin for a week, Jennifer and company run afoul of an evil and vicious monster of local legend that kills men and abducts women.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, independent film
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Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
Plot Summary:
Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student and a Marine to unravel the mystery once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, funny, psychotronic, fake documentary
Similar in 87%
Night Feeders (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four deer hunters encounter a horde of carnivorous aliens in a remote countryside and fight to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat
Similar in 79%
Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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It Waits (2005)
Plot Summary:
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, splatter, psychotronic, corny