Best movies like Scream of the Banshee
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Scream of the Banshee? Offer your knowledge to lead others to tv series and films you've already watched that might appeal to them also. Support expanding the assembly of people recommending videos to one another. We encourage your participation!
Plot Summary:
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, demonic, psychotronic, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Scream of the Banshee (2011):
Similar in 88%
Stitches (2001)
Plot Summary:
Combining the body parts and skin from her victims, a wicked sorceress stitches together her subjects.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense, independent film, semi serious
Similar in 76%
Mask Maker (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, realistic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, entertaining, creepy
Similar in 76%
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
Plot Summary:
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, serious, scary, rough, mind bending, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 88%
In the Woods (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out of the woods becomes a nightmare for the two men.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 83%
Sideshow (2000)
Plot Summary:
While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, weird, cult film
Similar in 87%
Blood Ranch (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four college students and an Iraq War vet, lost on a desert highway, encounter a terrified young woman with a black van on her trail. They survive the ensuing chase but their car doesn't, forcing them to seek help at a nearby ranch. Only when it's too late does the group learn that it's crossed the threshold into Hell! Welcome to the Web, home to a bizarre cult of murderers, perverts and mental defectives, whose sacraments include mutilation, dismemberment, unspeakable sex acts, and slow, agonizing death for all who enter. None of their "guests" have ever made it out alive. Tonight may be different...but don't count on it.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 78%
Smile (2009)
Plot Summary:
A carefree summer vacation turns into an inescapable terror trap for a group of young students who buy a vintage instant camera from a mysterious local shop owner.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, serious
Similar in 79%
Dark Town (2004)
Plot Summary:
The vampires have taken over suburbia, and the only hope for escape is to dismantle the white picket fences and drive them through the hearts of the undead in this tale of bloodlust.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, dark, independent film
Similar in 85%
Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
Similar in 79%
Hoboken Hollow (2006)
Plot Summary:
As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow,a remote West Texas ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, realistic, slasher
Similar in 80%
Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 82%
Death Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she starts to become unhinged and her paranoia overtakes every aspect of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, sexy
Similar in 76%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
Similar in 86%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
Similar in 88%
Ritual (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls Tom to help but now they've found a VHS tape that depicts a satanic ritual in which a woman is murdered. Lovely desperately wants to leave and they do, but Tom forgot his engraved lighter in the room, and when they go back to find it, the dead body appears missing.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, mumblecore, realistic
Similar in 82%
Snow White: A Deadly Summer (2012)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teenage girl finds herself in a web of lies and deceit when her stepmother attempts to murder her by sending her to a discipline camp.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, folk tale, exciting, rough, realistic, independent film
Similar in 85%
The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 78%
Speak No Evil (2013)
Plot Summary:
Speak No Evil is the story of Anna, a single mother fighting to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting
Similar in 88%
Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
Similar in 84%
The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 84%
Bled (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood to cross over from his world to hers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sexy, tense, captivating, scary, serious, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
Similar in 79%
Mothman (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough
Similar in 83%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, suspense, hilarious, independent film
Similar in 82%
Chupacabra Terror (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, dark, mockbuster, exciting, serious, fast, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
Plot Summary:
Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student and a Marine to unravel the mystery once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, funny, psychotronic, fake documentary
Similar in 82%
The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
Similar in 80%
Creature (2011)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Navy seal (Mehcad Brooks), his girlfriend (Serinda Swan) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half-alligator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, independent film, suspense, retro, scenic, grindhouse
Similar in 83%
Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Primitive (2011)
Plot Summary:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory monster - convince the local police that Martin is somehow responsible, and soon he comes to believe it too, as all the victims are connected to the evil within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary