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Plot Summary:
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll will never be the same after a medieval sex drug makes a comeback on the college party scene. Everyone wants to try this "orgasm" drug but no one considers the side effects.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, independent film
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Thralls (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on a group of 6 beautiful women called Thralls, referred to as "the white trash of vampires;" effectively a lower species of vampire. They don't kill people, they don't have the ability to turn their victims into vampires and they can't fly. These Thralls are under the control of Mr. Jones, the vampire who sired them, and whom they are trying desperately to escape. To do this they must complete a blood ritual which will turn them into full-blown vampires. Their plans hit a snag when Ashley, the younger sister of one of the Thralls, comes to visit. Ashley has no idea what her sister has been up to since moving to the big city nor what she has become.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, sexy, independent film
Similar in 78%
Haunted House on Sorority Row (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling sorority has just purchased their new home, but the inexpensive beat up house has a history no one could imagine. Now as they move in and continue their college lives something evil is making itself known by affecting their minds... and bodies.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Skinned Alive (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the heart of New York City, men are dying in very violent ways. They are being torn up and ripped apart...and eaten. The only connection is that they all die after hiring a prostitute. And searching for love in this city is Jeffrey...Jeffrey is a sad and lonely man. He hates his job, he hates his life and all he wants is a woman to shower with love and affection. Socially awkward and fearing rejection, Jeffrey finds his companionship with hookers. In a bizarre twist of fate, Jeffrey hires this hooker and almost instantly they fall madly in love. Now he has to find out just how much he is willing to accept in the name of true love...She is feeding on the men of New York City...and there is a lunatic that is hunting her down...and caught in the middle is Jeffrey, who only wanted to love and be loved.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, queer horror, scary, serious, realistic
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A Crack in the Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
For the past 33 years Jeremiah Hill has lived alone, with no contact with the outside world, and he intends to keep it that way. Jeremiah's mother had always warned him not to associate with the outside world, and her brutal rape and killing right before his eyes taught him a lesson he intends never to forget; and those who enter his world will pay a deadly price. As Lehman and his five friends from L.A. start their weekend camping trip they run into Tyler Trout and Floyd Fryed who represent the gateway into this distorted world that they are about to enter. These things just don't happen in sheriff Talmidge and deputy Kevin Gordon's small mountain town, and by stumbling upon this lonely cabin in the woods, they have shattered 33 years of solitude in Jeremiah's world... And unbeknownst to Lehman and his friends, soon their weekend trip of hiking and camping will become a nightmare of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, slasher horror
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One Remains (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a group of filmmakers trek deep into the woods to investigate a missing persons case, they inadvertently start a chain of events that lead to horrific consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending
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Don't Look in the Cellar (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students regret their decision to sneak into the cellar of a haunted asylum on Halloween. One by one they encounter Smiley, the last of a flawed bloodline.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, queer horror, scary, serious, realistic
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Albino Farm (2009)
Plot Summary:
College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspense, dark
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Bad Apples (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The 6th Friend (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six college best friends throw their own private graduation party, however the stoner of the group orders in a psychedelic from her drug dealer, who sticks around to join in their fun. Drugged and disoriented, the girls’ special night quickly becomes a dark, foggy nightmare of blood and violence. Five years later, the girls gather together in a cabin in the woods in hopes of rekindling that close friendship that they once had, only to find themselves being hunted by who, or what, they do not know….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror
Similar in 80%
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
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Bio Slime (2010)
Plot Summary:
Seven misfits are trapped by a flesh eating slime creature. And no TV!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, psychotronic
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FleshEater (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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Halloween Night (2006)
Plot Summary:
Halloween Night starts as a young boy named Chris Vale (Sam Stone) witnesses his mum (Jan Anderson) get raped & then murdered before being horribly burnt by a jet of steam from a pipe. Jump forward 'Ten Years Later' on 'Halloween Night' where Chris (Scot Nery) is now locked up inside a mental asylum with a face that looks like a McDonald's hamburger, he escapes & kills teenager Todd (Nicholas Day Clark) & his girlfriend who were on their way to a Halloween party organised by their friend David (Derek Osedach). It just so happens that David is organising this Halloween party in the house where Chris used to live & he heads there dressed in Todd's Halloween costume & everyone mistakes Chris for Todd which lets him move about freely killing everyone he meets for no apparent reason.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockbuster, queer horror, slasher horror
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Fairivew Falls (2011)
Plot Summary:
It was the summer after graduation when a small circle of friends set off into the woods on a dare and made their way to the creek where a series of ritualistic animal murders had been discovered. When they returned from they woods they were not alone. When the son of the town mafia boss is murdered, it sets off a chain of events that leads to the discovery of a new threat forged by the most sinister evil Fairview Falls has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Three Days in the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone love camping in the woods. It's usually a calm, relaxing getaway. For five friends, it's the perfect way to send off one of their own. Amongst the partying and debauchery comes something much more sick and depraved. The five friends find themselves hunted by unknown killers. With the woods working against them, will they fall one by one or will they survive the next Three Days in the Woods? Mad Angel Films and Wicked Six Productions show you a glimpse of the evil that lie within the innocuous. Directed by Matthew A. Peters and written by Mark Joseph Peek, Three Days in the Woods will shock and disgust you. We promise.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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Wicked Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, dark, scary, rough
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Bunni (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following a Halloween party, an attractive girl and her friends must fight to escape the nightmarish dwelling of a twisted killer with a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, independent film, sexy, twisted
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Delta Delta Die! (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mother Fitch (Julie Strain) and her girls have an insatiable taste for men; their flesh that is. The Delta Delta Pi sorority girls are not only the most popular and wealthy on campus, but also the most deadly. Now, as they prepare for their 20th anniversary homecoming, a meddlesome student has enlisted the help of DDP charter member Rhonda Cooper (Brinke). Together they attempt to end the sorority's reign of culinary terror that grips the California campus.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, sexual, suspense, independent film, erotic, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 77%
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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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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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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Halloween II (2009)
Plot Summary:
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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Satanic (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, satanic, demonic, interesting, weird
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Halloween II (1981)
Plot Summary:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, slasher horror, tense, creepy, cult classic
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Lust for Dracula (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mina Harker isn't the happiest of Hollywood Hills wives - even though she's married to wealthy pharmaceuticals magnate Jonathan Harker. The repressed Mina longs for Jonathan's love and the happiness a child would bring them, yet the arrival of the beautiful and mysterious Dracula - seductive vampire servants at her side - will change their lives forever. Dracula offers Mina the sensual existence she so desperately craves - one that is immediately threatened by Mina's sister, Dr. Abigail Van Helsing. Van Helsing seeks to not only destroy the monstrous vampire but covet Mina's seemingly perfect life and husband Jonathan, too. As these troubled characters move ever closer toward their destinies and a final battle with Dracula, blood will be spilled, souls will be destroyed, and love will become undying.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, erotic, sexual, biting, sexy, suspense
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The Funhouse (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, stylized, intense, disturbing, rough
Similar in 84%
Hostel: Part III (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, brutal, sexy
Similar in 83%
Cabin Fever (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter, creepy, dark comedy, bloody, cult classic, teen