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Plot Summary:
When the singer of a popular rock band disappears under mysterious circumstances, a contest to find a replacement soon turns from dream-come-true to waking nightmare for the young singer who hopes to take the job.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, bleak, independent film, gay cinema
Best tv shows and movies like Ring of Darkness (2004):
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Unholy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania, comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn't succeed in stopping her child's horrific demise, but the girl's death gradually leads the grieving mother to investigate a conspiracy that involves a legendary local witch, Nazi dabbling with the occult, and secret government experiments, with the story even referencing the fabled Philadelphia Experiment.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing, independent film, scary, slasher
Similar in 87%
Speed Demon (2003)
Plot Summary:
In this supernatural take on The Fast and the Furious, college student Jesse returns home only to find that his old stomping ground has been overrun by a gang of street racers that dabbles in the black arts. But things take a bloody turn for the gang members when a supercharged muscle car starts running them down. Can Jesse stop the fuel-injected killing machine and unmask the mysterious driver?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, scary, slasher, gay cinema
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A Dream Within a Dream (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six high school students, WILL, CHARLIE, BARTOK, TODD, STEVIE and LINDA, are handed invitations to a party by the school’s mysterious and enigmatic new student, SADDLER. However, once they enter Saddler’s house, they are each somehow magically transported to a different room, where Saddler reveals their innermost guilty secrets and desires through the use of black magic and exploits them in an attempt to resurrect his mother, a three-hundred year old witch.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, homoerotic, independent film, campy
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2: Voodoo Academy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Young hot travelers are sidelined by a road blocked with fallen trees, and stop for a night at the mansion belonging to sexy Sebastian. The house has a history of voodoo, mayhem and horror, and new arrivals are fresh meat for the hungry house.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, bleak, suspense, sexy, independent film, homoerotic, campy
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The Brotherhood (2001)
Plot Summary:
The fraternity "Doma (House of) Tau Omega" has found a key to eternal youth without having to become blood-drinking vampires. Will they be able to recruit Chris, an innocent and perfect newcomer?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, homoerotic, tense, captivating, erotic, independent film, serious, gay cinema, campy
Similar in 76%
The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, scary, surprise ending, tense, suspense, captivating, melancholic, erotic, queer horror
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1313: Cougar Cult (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rufus, Darwin, and Coopersmith are three nerdy, but hunky young college students who score themselves a dream summer job working at a swanky mansion owned by wealthy and sexy middle-aged babes Clara, Victoria, and Edwina. However, the gals turn out to be a coven of deadly witches who transform into flesh-eating cougars who need fresh young man meat in order to live forever.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, serious, suspenseful, independent film, homoerotic, campy
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Voodoo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Andy comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, slasher, cult film
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college kids stumble upon a small abandoned town of Sunset Valley, they must fight a band of Zombies led by a Confederate soldier seeking retribution for his grisly execution.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, mockbuster, wild, awful
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The Roost (2005)
Plot Summary:
Part of a "special" late-nite television program...Four friends on their way to a wedding find themselves marooned on a mysterious farm. Creatures of the night awaken and the undead rise, as a night of relentless horror...Begins!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, retro, dark, natural horror, slasher, independent film
Similar in 83%
Island of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on a deserted island, a group of people struggle to survive against a swarm of supernatural flies.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, dark, independent film, psychotronic
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Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, captivating
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The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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Voodoo Academy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young Christopher has just enrolled at the prestigious Carmichael Bible College, managed by the somewhat unusual Mrs. Bouvier. After some unexplained disappearances, Christopher does some exploring and discovers that Mrs. Bouvier and the Reverend Carmichael have some very unwholesome intentions for the young men of their school. Will Christopher graduate with his body and soul intact?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, captivating, suspense, independent film, offbeat, gay cinema
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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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The Forest (2011)
Plot Summary:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, underground film, detective, perverse
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Sight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a beautiful young woman who shares his "sight", Jeffery finds comfort in knowing someone shares his affliction. But his comfort is short lived. Dana suddenly goes missing and Jeffrey is left alone to find the answers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, scary, serious
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Zombie Farm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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The Cry (2007)
Plot Summary:
In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican witch Gloria, the woman advises that a powerful evil force is chasing the reincarnation of her son and drowning the other children to bring pain to their mothers.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic, hispanic
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The Cradle (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
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Night Fangs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have managed to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Performing bloody rituals, they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that will devour their flesh and souls.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, scary, serious, sexual
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Legion of the Dead (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the mummified remains of an evil Egyptian queen are brought back to life, she resurrects an army of living dead to help fulfill the prophecy that promises her all the powers of the Underworld.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, scary, offbeat, campy
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The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks (2001)
Plot Summary:
John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get back at them using witchcraft - but doesn't realise that the price of his new-found power may be his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, homoerotic, gay cinema, campy
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The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killing Ariel (2008)
Plot Summary:
One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally Rick kills Ariel. But she won't stay dead. He soon realizes that she is the demon that first attacked him. He defends himself by killing her again. And again. But no matter how many times he kills her, she keeps coming back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
Plot Summary:
The United States Government has developed a highly effective nerve gas that is unleashed upon the residents of a small Maryland City. During the top secret exercise the infected citizens begin to convert each resident into a sort of living zombie, until the remaining town residents, 6 total strangers, are trapped inside a movie theater cineplex.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, exciting
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary