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Plot Summary:
When brutal murdering starts in a small riverside town, the sheriff must investigate and face the horrific past.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, serious, independent film
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Phantom Racer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, NASCAR racer Cutter McCullough died in a fiery crash. But death can’t stop a man driven by revenge. He and his car are back from the grave to settle a score with his old girlfriend Tammy and his rival JJ Sawyer. Now JJ, Tammy, and their daughter, Jesse, are hitting the road with the Phantom Racer on their tail.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 89%
Are You Scared 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two psychopaths controlled by the sick owner of an underground site that is filming their movements and they have to fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, rough, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense
Similar in 89%
Killer Instinct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 87%
Scar (2005)
Plot Summary:
While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last attempt to find out what happened to his friend. Following a trail of dead bodies, each one bearing a bleeding scar, Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cryptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle not only for their sanity, but their survival.Everyone in the small town seems to have a secret and when the dreaded scar suddenly appears on Jenny, the two race to find out what evil dwells in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, surprise ending, independent film
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Dead Clowns (2004)
Plot Summary:
The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, but they can't hide from the truth -- or the undead.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, slasher, independent film, ridiculous
Similar in 79%
Red Canyon (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Red Canyon, Regina and Devon return to their family home in the badlands of Utah to face the memory of a brutal attack - and put it behind them. But in coming home they awaken a killing rage in a town where everyone has ties that bind.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, scary, contemplative
Similar in 87%
Killers 2: The Beast (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
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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
Similar in 78%
Severed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, suspense, independent film
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Knock Knock (2007)
Plot Summary:
Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The problem is his dad is an undertaker. Some popular high school Students thought he was weird because of it. Rico kept to himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
The 8th Plague (2006)
Plot Summary:
The 8th Plague is the story of a woman named Launa who is investigating the disappearance of her sister, Nikki. Nikki had gone camping in the mountain town of Halcyon Springs and never came back. Becoming more and more frustrated, Launa realizes that she must find her sister on her own with the help of Mason, a mysterious local man with a shadowed past.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, dark, psychotronic, weird
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The Other Side (2006)
Plot Summary:
Samuel North (Nathan Mobley) escapes from Hell to find the person who murdered him, but a team of invincible bounty hunters called REAPERS are sent from the Netherworld to bring him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, touching, captivating, suspense, psychotronic
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
Similar in 83%
Dead Men Walking (2005)
Plot Summary:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is to escape; but once you're inside this prison, there's really no way of getting out safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, creepy, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing
Similar in 76%
The Voices (2020)
Plot Summary:
Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken her own life. While coming to terms with this heavy realization, Grace also uncovers another terrible little secret that has her struggling to maintain her own sanity and ultimately scurrying to save herself and her family from further harm.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Slaughter Night (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen-year-old Kristel survived a car accident in which her father dies. Tormented by nocturnal visions she begins to care for her father's investigation of serial killers - especially Andries Martíns, a killer of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary
Similar in 78%
XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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Left for Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in Mexico, Left For Dead is a bloody and sick dream ... A spaghetti western in terror. A desperate criminal will be caught in the ghost town of Amnesty alongside a vengeful demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Western
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, rough, serious, wild
Similar in 75%
11:11 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers '11:11' that was scratched in blood beside her mother's body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she gets closer to the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 86%
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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7 Mummies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Six escaped convicts and their female hostage make a desperate run for the Mexican border, where they stumble across a lost treasure of untold wealth, and find certain death instead on the Arizona desert.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Dark Souls (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, cult horror, slasher, independent film
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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Swamp Zombies!!! (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, psychological, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic