Best movies like Shallow Grave
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Plot Summary:
Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness the local sheriff murder a woman. They try to escape before he murders them, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, road movie, suspense, vintage
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Scare Zone (2009)
Plot Summary:
Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it. The attraction is open for three nights only, and Oliver has brought back his old staff, including ex-con Spider, eager bride-to-be Summer, and the enigmatic Goth princess Claire. A bunch of newbies are also on board, including earnest young Darryl, who immediately finds himself bewitched by the creepy Claire. The dysfunctional 'scream team' learns to work together while someone or some-thing is out to make the horror REAL.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, gothic
Similar in 75%
Death Screams (1982)
Plot Summary:
Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love couple Bob and Kathy, coach, Neil Marshall, waitresses, timid blonde Lily and comely, nubile Ramona, their boss Jackson and learning difficulties teenage peeping tom Casey who's dad Avery is the town sheriff. Several them decide to spend the night down at the river, where a unknown double homicide climaxed there some nights before. But among the fairgoers is the one responsible for the deaths and as they are lurking in the shadows troubled over a tragic past (or just about one thing or another) deciding to take their frustrations out with a machete on those they blame for all the misfortunes in their life. Following the group back to their riverside stamping grounds they set about ensuring no one leaves the area alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, bloody, cult classic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 83%
Bits and Pieces (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, picking out young beautiful women as his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
Similar in 87%
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
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Terror Night (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfortunates, using various weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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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
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Frightworld (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 78%
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
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Hayride (2012)
Plot Summary:
A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, intense, atmospheric, suspense, serious, realistic
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Camp Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Friday the 13th Meets My Dinner With Andre.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Who's Watching Oliver (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a policeman. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic, bloody, dark, detective, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic
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Pickaxe (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1982, a group of campers was horribly slaughtered at Camp Arapaho in the sleepy little town of Woodland Hills. The 10 gruesome murders were blamed on Alex Black, a mysterious man believed to have been the son of Satan himself, whom the townspeople had hunted down and lynched nearly 20 years prior. A young woman named Adrienne was able to defeat Alex and put a stop to the killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Coffin Baby (2013)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young woman is kidnapped, held captive and forced to endure the evils of one of the most violent homicidal maniacs in the city's history. "The Toolbox Killer" aka TBK. It is by her will, strength and her faith that she must survive, the ordeal. Her escape is almost hopeless. Unfortunately her situation only worsens when outside supernatural forces become more difficult to contend with than TBK.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
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Condo Hell (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer stalks guests during an open house weekend at a giant secluded luxury condominium estate.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Why? (2021)
Plot Summary:
Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Creeper (2012)
Plot Summary:
Heather and her friends have some devilish fun on the social website, ConnectMeNet. However, their amusement has come at the expense of a lonely and medicated half-wit, Jerry Tobin. After goading him into humiliating himself on camera in various cruel acts of depravity, they post the clips online for the world to see in a video titled "Revenge on a Creeper". This ruins Jerry's meager life and he disappears without a trace... Fast forward a year, and the tables are now turned when Jerry reemerges, off the antipsychotic medication that clouded his thoughts and kept his demons at bay. Now the girls are forced into a nightmarish fight for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, sadistic
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Die Influencers Die (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington (Frankie Rivers) dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty Clown Model - Moxie (Tabitha Stevens) who's directed to kill these intruders by a sinister Otherworld-Coyote (Lizzy Borden). It's a bloody 80's style kill-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Teacher Shortage (2020)
Plot Summary:
What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Last of the Grads (2021)
Plot Summary:
A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary “Coast to Coast Killer”.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Hazard Jack (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids get together for a weekend of booze and war games at an abandoned hospital. The hospital has become the haven for a PTSD stricken war vet coping and acting upon his delusions. Who will survive the game?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Slashlorette Party (2020)
Plot Summary:
An anxious young woman is taken by her friends to a remote cabin in the woods to celebrate her bachelorette party. The fun and games are cut short when an uninvited guest begins killing off the wedding party, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Psycho Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bloody, detective, cult classic, independent film, serious
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Vampire Clan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy raod trip. His behaviour begins to frighten his friends, though they went along with it at first. All end up in prison except Heather.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, dark, scary
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Martin (1977)
Plot Summary:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, creepy, cult classic, cult horror
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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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Last Girl Standing (2015)
Plot Summary:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of the homicidal events and struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal existence again or is she destined to cope alone forever? Part slasher movie, part character study, take a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the remaining true victim of every horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic