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Plot Summary:
Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to erase disturbing memories, but instead, a murderous creature has been unleashed. Reaching out from the shadows, the monster hunts the eight strangers as they race to escape the asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, dark, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Left in Darkness (2006)
Plot Summary:
Celia (Monica Keena, Freddy vs. Jason) has had a rough life, with a mother who died in childbirth and a father who disappeared. Unfortunately for Celia, death is not any easier than life. When she is drugged and raped at a frat party, Celia dies from an overdose, and must battle the terrible Soul Eaters who roam the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing, suspense, light
Similar in 78%
The Morgue (2008)
Plot Summary:
Trapped between the physical world and the afterlife, between dusk and dawn, six strangers, brought together through a series of unusual events, are an enigma to themselves and go mysteriously unnoticed by others. In their futile attempt for survival, they latch on to each other at a desolate mortuary in hopes of making it through the night. There is an astonishing twist in this INTENSE psychological thriller...more is happening at the Morgue than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspense
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Satan's Playground (2006)
Plot Summary:
SATAN'S PLAYGROUND is a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, panic sets in. Then the marooned family stumbles upon an ancient and seemingly abandoned house. And it is here that they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds who lives there with her equally unhinged children. Offering no assistance, she warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves. SATAN'S PLAYGROUND...a place where deadly myth becomes gruesome reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, serious, suspense, dark, independent film
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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
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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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The Doorway (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four young college students agree to fix up an abandoned home for rent, only to discover the demons within and an open doorway... to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, erotic, independent film, scary, serious, slasher
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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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Blood Relic (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, independent film, scary, surprise ending, splatter, awful
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Trespassers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. Colin gathers 4 friends and leaves for Mexico but is surprised that nor his brother nor his brother's friends are there. They start realizing that there's something wrong with the beach, a curse that says that no one will leave the beach alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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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 MartÃns, 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
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Penance (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, disturbing, sexy, suspense, sexual
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Warhouse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, mind twisting, suspense, mind bending, psychological horror, scary
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, grindhouse, spooky, serious, lovecraft
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The Forgotten Ones (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot. A horrifying action-adventure in the vein of Predator and Lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film, psychotronic
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House of Bones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, terrifying, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Seventh Moon (2008)
Plot Summary:
Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark, suspense, slasher, underground film, hilarious, independent film
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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The Wisher (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, teen horror
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Pray for Morning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To survive the night, the friends must solve a century-old mystery that threatens to annihilate them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, teen horror
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Lost Signal (2006)
Plot Summary:
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, serious, scary, dark, slasher, psychological
Similar in 89%
House of Fears (2007)
Plot Summary:
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak, psychological, psychotronic, dread
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Deadly Weekend (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film, bloody
Similar in 84%
The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
Plot Summary:
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, erotic, suspense, cult classic, tense, sexual, independent film, suspenseful, scary
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Survival Island (2002)
Plot Summary:
Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mythical, independent film, fast, psychotronic, slasher
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Elevator (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the only reasonable solution.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological, scary, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, tension
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
Similar in 89%
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, splatter, serious, absurd, teen, bloody