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Plot Summary:
An intelligent pulse of electricity is moving from house to house. It terrorizes the occupants by taking control of the appliances, either killing them or causing them to wreck the house in an effort to destroy it. Then it travels along the power lines to the next house, and the terror restarts. Having thus wrecked one household in a quiet neighbourhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy's divorced father whom he is visiting. It gradually takes control of everything, badly injures the stepmother, and traps father and son, who must fight their way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: creepy, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Similar in 81%
The Return (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
The Hunt (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bow hunting enthusiast Jack Hamberg, his eight-year old stepson Clint and former news cameraman Atticus Monroe are on a mission to make a deer hunting video. All that is needed to complete the video is a "kill". Jack and Atticus reluctantly decide to trespass onto a nearby property where there may be more abundant prey. Once inside the restricted area, they come upon some frightening realizations. The hunters have become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, dark, brutal, splatter, scary, mind bending, light, awful
Similar in 76%
Invitation to Hell (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist and his family move to a new town. He meets the local celebrity the beautiful who runs th local health club to which everyone is a member and makes him suspicious. Intrigued he investigates further and uncovers a terrifying plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Bone Eater (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, awful
Similar in 89%
The Day the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is the son of an alien being.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense, comic
Similar in 81%
The Crawling Hand (1963)
Plot Summary:
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, a teenager finds a severed arm among wreckage on earth. Soon the thing returns to life to murder and posses the young man's mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, scary, suspense, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, offbeat
Similar in 87%
The Curse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Hayes family and the members of the community.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, bleak, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, retro, slasher, surreal, grindhouse, classic horror
Similar in 75%
Chopping Mall (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the "intruders". The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror
Similar in 79%
Aunt Rose (2005)
Plot Summary:
A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but what they didn't realize was that they had entered into the home of a truly terrifying family. But the folks downstairs are the least of their worries, because by the time these sadistic beasts discover the unearthly powers of the woman who dwells on the third floor, it's already too late for any hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, offbeat
Similar in 82%
Subterano (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Super Hybrid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it's a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning -- and outwitting -- humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher, independent film, fast
Similar in 82%
Crash and Burn (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of th.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mecha, cult film
Similar in 86%
Moontrap (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: space horror, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
Similar in 89%
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 87%
Let Us In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 12 year old girl is determined to uncover who or what is behind the rash of disappearances occurring in her small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, weird
Similar in 80%
Await the Dawn (2020)
Plot Summary:
A troubled family traveling cross country are highjacked by a desperate man. Only to discover he's running from something more dangerous than he is.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft, cult horror
Similar in 86%
Scintilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
Similar in 79%
Unseen Evil (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Similar in 89%
Zombie Wars (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world's population struggles to survive against the zombie hordes.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film, serious
Similar in 90%
Silent Night, Zombie Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
A week before Christmas a viral outbreak turns the citizens of Los Angeles into the walking dead. On the brink of severing ties with both his wife and longtime partner, L.A.P.D. officer Frank Talbot finds himself trapped with them. As death closes in their survival is further threatened by the fact that both men love the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 88%
Scanner Cop II (1995)
Plot Summary:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 78%
Scanner Cop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
Similar in 76%
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, cult horror, retro, detective
Similar in 76%
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 84%
Deep Space (1988)
Plot Summary:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature. Co-starring Julie Newmar as a powerful psychic, this low-rent horror flick finds the police force continually confounded by the organism's evolving physical features.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic, lovecraft, independent film, scary, exciting, slasher
Similar in 76%
It's Alive (1974)
Plot Summary:
Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster that kills the team in the delivery room and escapes through a skylight. Lieutenant Perkins comes to the hospital to investigate the murder and the press divulges the identity of the parents. Frank discovers a dark secret about Lenore and the baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough, bloody, suspense, cult classic, classic horror, grindhouse
Similar in 78%
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Plot Summary:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, mystic, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, surprise ending, tense
Similar in 83%
It's Alive (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the responsible for the killings?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, mystic, psychotronic, remake of american film
Similar in 87%
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young boy sees his father killed by a toy that was anonymously delivered to his house. After that, he is too traumatized to speak, and his mother must deal with both him and the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, a toy maker named Joe Peto builds some suspicious-looking toys, and a mysterious man creeps around both the toy store and the boy's house...but who is responsible for the killer toys?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, rough, serious, dark, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful, slasher horror