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Plot Summary:
The horror film Skinned Deep begins when a family suffers a flat tire on a barren stretch of road with only a diner dotting the landscape. They meet Granny, the seemingly nice old woman who runs the establishment, but they soon find that she is the leader of a deranged clan. The family is slain, with the exception of their teenage daughter, Tina whom one of the sons in the family, Brain (a boy with an externalized brain much larger than his head), takes a romantic interest in. Soon a group of bikers show up, forcing the girl to figure out which group of crazies she should throw in with in order to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, serious, independent film, weird, campy
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Woodchipper Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jon, Tom, and Denise accidently kill their senile old Aunt while she's looking after them while their father is away on business. Not sure what to do, they decide to dispose of the body in the rented woodchipper in the backyard. But more trouble comes a-knocking when their cousin Kim, their Aunt's son, shows up unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher horror
Similar in 83%
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 a group of young, horny, out of control Christians are spending a fun filled weekend at the mountain lakeside Happy Day Bible Camp. One by one these youthful sinners pay a BLOODY penance for their misdeeds. Flash forward 7 years, when another youth group of Bible toters return, lead by "Father Richard Cummings" (Reggie Bannister), "Sister Mary Chopper," (Tim Sullivan) goes bloody murder after the camp - emphasis on CAMP - with stand out performances by folks like Gigi Bannister, Jessica Sonneborn, Troy Guthrie, Deborah Venegas, Jay Fields, and Jeff Dylan Graham. In the end, Bannister and Troup must face down the a transvestite serial killing nun in a fight to the death, and call upon the higher graces of the infamous Ron Jeremy as "Jesus" guide them through! A hilarious campy equal opportunity offensive film that will have you DIE laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, spoof, scary, realistic
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Legion of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful California desert when they're kidnapped by the notorious Psycho Mike, The Kern River Killer. Securing their escape through hilarious means and the aid of an old friend they soon stumble into a small desert town where unbeknownst to them a mysterious tall Blond Man and his sadistic henchmen are killing people to create a Legion of the dead. Here's where it gets tricky. William falls in love with Geena, the beautiful waitress at the local restaurant and Luke spins out of control hormonally. The restaurant is suddenly attacked by the LEGION and the tall Blond Man gives an ultimatum to hand over Geena within two hours or he will personally come in to get her. What is the mysterious secret that Geena and the Blond Man share? The clock ticks as the ultimatum draws near. The fight against evil has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, perverse, scary, slasher, splatter
Similar in 86%
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (2009)
Plot Summary:
An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, retro, bloody, suspense, slasher, splatter
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Death by Engagement (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to track down a vicious serial killer bent on reclaiming his mother's family heirloom wedding ring as it passes from bride to bride with the killer always one step behind, and the detectives one step behind the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic, splatter
Similar in 77%
Grotesque (1988)
Plot Summary:
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher, perverse, independent film, surprise ending, slasher horror
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The Janitor (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lionel is a custodian that longs for more. Bombarded with daily disrespect and insults from his co-workers, Lionel sets on a path of revenge and begins to brutally murder everyone in his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, humorous, suspenseful, independent film, slasher, suspense, realistic, semi serious, bizarre
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Severed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, suspense, independent film
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Retardead (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As the ravenous monsters overrun the town, Hannigan tries to convince Stern's faithful assistant to reveal how to foil the crazed doctor's evil scheme.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, horror comedy, creepy, ridiculous
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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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House of Whipcord (1974)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, creepy, serious, realistic, independent film
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Monsturd (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, slasher, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat
Similar in 78%
Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Plot Summary:
Gore specialist H.G. Lewis' gruesome tale of an artist who becomes a success after using human blood in his paintings.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, splatter, suspense, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Camp Slaughter (2005)
Plot Summary:
While searching for a way out of the woods, a group of lost friends stumble upon Camp Hiawatha and take up with the teens who are bunking there. But the party's over when they discover that this camp is literally stuck in a time warp -- 1981, to be exact -- and that they're living the same horrible day over and over. Can they escape the wrath of a killer who's silently stalking the campers and their terrified counselors?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary
Similar in 84%
Luther the Geek (1989)
Plot Summary:
As a young child Luther The Geek or "The Freak" witnesses a band of men goading a geek (a man who bites off chicken's heads and drinks the blood) into performing. In the ensuing hullabaloo, Luther bites his lip and likes the taste of blood. Flash forward some thirty years and a parole board is meeting to discuss Luther's release. It seems the cheeky blighter has been murdering folk in the meantime. A dopey parole board trainee sides with the liberals and so Luther is unleashed, except now he has a special pair of customized metal teeth. Luther then proceeds to "bite the heads off" of many hapless folk until the tense ending. This movie is most notable for it's bare dialog, whole stretches pass without a sound. Most of the audio is composed of Luther clucking insanely like a chicken.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, serious
Similar in 87%
Andre the Butcher (2005)
Plot Summary:
Andre the Butcher will make sure you pay for your sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, suspense, horror comedy, campy
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Scarecrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, bleak, splatter, cult film
Similar in 75%
Shredder (2001)
Plot Summary:
At an exclusive, secluded North American ski resort up on Mount Rocky Summit, brutal slashing, severing and beheading on a group of teenagers are taking place and are believed to be the work of a mysterious skier dressed in black.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher, suspense, perverse, spoof, teen horror, independent film
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 85%
Blood Dolls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexy, demonic, independent film, offbeat, black comedy
Similar in 81%
Blood Hook (1986)
Plot Summary:
During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 88%
Julia X (2011)
Plot Summary:
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, serious, suspense, slasher, sexual, horror comedy, rough
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The Hazing (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they're hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick... or none of them will make it through the hellish night of The Hazing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, bloody, horror comedy, independent film, slasher, serious, splatter
Similar in 79%
Slaughterhouse (1987)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, splatter, horror comedy, funny, cult horror
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Return to Horror High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spoof, slasher, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, horror comedy, independent film, rough
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The Convent (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, suspenseful, slasher, harsh, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, serious, independent film
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Uncle Sam (1996)
Plot Summary:
Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag over his burial site.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, political, dark, horror comedy, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious
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Basket Case 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their new found home (presided over by Granny Roth), things however take a downward turn on a trip to the Georgia Clinic of Uncle Hal, which leads to an encounter with an especially nasty redneck sheriff and his similarly blinkered band of merry men.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, brutal, dark, mystic, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, spooky, independent film
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The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Similar in 84%
Popcorn (1991)
Plot Summary:
A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, scary, funny, retro, dark, dark comedy, independent film, rough, offbeat