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Plot Summary:
Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, tense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, campy
Best tv shows and movies like Route 666 (2001):
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Dead Heist (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four friends plan the perfect small town bank heist, but choose the wrong night. Their plans go horribly wrong when vampiric zombies attack the town and trap them in the bank. Can they escape with the money and their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, horror comedy, fast
Similar in 86%
Hell's Highway (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four college friends take a fateful road trip. The road, Hell's Highway--a direct route to terror. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the group manages to turn the tables. They thought they killed her, but around the next ben--around every ben-- she appears like a mirage ready to murder again. Is she the devil? Can anyone stop her killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 83%
Scarecrows (1988)
Plot Summary:
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, creepy, atmospheric, retro, bloody, frightening
Similar in 88%
All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
Plot Summary:
During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living. In the remote Mexican village of Santa Bonita, a nightmare lay buried for over a century. But when a group of hard-partying students from the OC are stranded in this strange town, they discover an innkeeper with a dark secret (Laura Harring of Mulholland Drive) a sheriff with a shocking past (David Keith of Firestarter) and a holiday that demands the most horrific sacrifice of all. Now the ceremony can commence. The hordes of the undead have been unleashed. And on this day, an unstoppable feast of human flesh has begun!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, scary, tense
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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 88%
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 81%
River of Darkness (2011)
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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Hell's Highway (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off anyone who is foolish enough to stray into their deadly territory.Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak, road movie, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, awful
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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
Similar in 86%
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gang of bank-robbing misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar... and crosses the wrong vampire... the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, stylized, mystical, retro, slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 76%
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Plot Summary:
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, independent film, awful
Similar in 84%
Husk (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, dark, creepy, bleak, disturbing, psychological, entertaining, bloody
Similar in 75%
Red Sands (2009)
Plot Summary:
During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, demonic, spooky, surprise ending, disaster movie
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 78%
The Devil's Tomb (2009)
Plot Summary:
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, perverse, classic horror, psychotronic, religious horror
Similar in 78%
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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Skeleton Man (2004)
Plot Summary:
A co-ed group of Special Forces agents search the wilderness for a predator type creature that has been on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, slasher, awful
Similar in 89%
Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tough-as-nails vampire hunter Derek Bliss is on the hunt for "suckers" in the heart of Mexico when he receives a new assignment from a mysterious client. Thrown together with a group of slayers, including sexy Zooey, who may or may not be one of the undead. Derek and company are up against a growing number of fast-moving, bloodthirsty vampires and their elusive and powerful leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, dark, slasher
Similar in 80%
Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
The Forsaken (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, road movie, rough, cult classic, teen, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher, serious
Similar in 78%
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ángela Vidal the young television reporter who entered the building with the fireman, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don?t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, rough, splatter, apocalyptic, serious, dark
Similar in 79%
Phantasm II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, cult classic, scary, classic horror, road movie, cult horror, spooky, terrifying, rough
Similar in 78%
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy, creepy, cult classic, horror comedy
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Project Viper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle Olympus is on a routine mission, but with a far-from-routine payload: "Project Viper," an experimental hybrid of human genes and computer chips, designed to adapt to any environment, particularly that of Mars. But as the shuttle crew prepares to launch the prototype into space, something unexpected occurs. Soon the astronauts are dead, and the Secretary of Defense orders the remaining prototype destroyed. To do the job, he calls on devil-may-care special agent Mike Connors (Patrick Muldoon).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
Similar in 81%
Skinwalkers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, erotic, dark, psychotronic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Vampires (1998)
Plot Summary:
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, rough, suspense, splatter, cult classic, exciting, stylized, gothic, retro
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Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the verge of a major arms deal, the two toughest gangs in L.A. will find themselves trapped in an abandoned warehouse by a ravenous mob of bloodthirsty zombies. They will have to work together with the cops to avoid being torn limb-from-limb and eaten alive. A one of a kind urban-zombie film, Gangs of the Dead is a gore-filled and action-packed thriller for both the horror fan and the urban audience.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic
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Texas Chainsaw (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, intense, suspense, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, splatter
Similar in 82%
Vampires: The Turning (2004)
Plot Summary:
An American muay-thai fighter in Thailand must join forces with a group of vampire hunters to track down and kill a vampire lord who has kidnapped his gilfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, gothic, suspense, slasher, cult classic, cult film
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Day of the Dead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) and written by Jeffrey Reddick.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense, apocalyptic, retro, dark, scenic, classic horror