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Plot Summary:
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film
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No Place to Hide (1981)
Plot Summary:
Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the strange young man whom she recently dated? Or the psychologist her mother told her to visit? Or is she really insane...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 75%
Dark Sanity (1982)
Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film
Similar in 87%
A Face to Die For (1996)
Plot Summary:
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 76%
Soft & Quiet (2022)
Plot Summary:
Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher
Similar in 77%
The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979)
Plot Summary:
A photographer cruises Hollywood and takes pictures of young models he then strangles. Meanwhile, a woman who works in a porno bookstore in downtown L.A. takes it upon herself to kill off the local derelicts. Soon the two killers meet up with each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative, scary, dark, historical drama
Similar in 86%
Point of Terror (1971)
Plot Summary:
A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 80%
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before it, or the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Play Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, brutal, independent film, awful
Similar in 78%
Sledgehammer (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 85%
The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Black Room (1982)
Plot Summary:
A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
The Bloody Slaying of Sarah Ridelander (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 75%
Impulse (1974)
Plot Summary:
A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film
Similar in 88%
An Eye for an Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 79%
Possession (1987)
Plot Summary:
Frankie is a psychopath who drags along problems with his mother. To compensate these problems he follows and persecutes Madeleine and some of her friends killing one girl after the other and also everybody who would stand in his way - without any reason or comparison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 81%
Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
Similar in 88%
Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 82%
Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986)
Plot Summary:
August 31, 1986: Dangerously unhinged serial killer Johnathan Glick gets released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. Three days after his release Johnathan arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Naturally, Johnathan decides to embark on another murderous rampage that came to be known as "The Glitter Gulch Holocaust".
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 87%
Death Valley (1982)
Plot Summary:
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, offbeat, bloody, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 83%
Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
Similar in 84%
Effects (1979)
Plot Summary:
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, sadistic, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
Similar in 88%
Repentance (2013)
Plot Summary:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller, realistic, independent film, black cinema
Similar in 83%
Lucid (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Scum of the Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where pregnant wife Emmy, thick-as-a-brick son Bo, and available-since-she-was-twelve daughter Sarah, do their best to give her a "family" welcome. While Helen's immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, psycho film, awful
Similar in 87%
Watcher (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, dark, scary, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, neo noir
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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Dead Ringers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, sexy, art house