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Plot Summary:
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, slasher, suspense, spooky, psychotronic, crime thriller
Best tv shows and movies like Someone's Watching Me! (1978):
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Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 88%
Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 76%
.com for Murder (2002)
Plot Summary:
This high-tech, psychological thriller is set in the shadowy world of the Internet. Sondra Brummel is recovering from a skiing accident in her boyfriend's mansion, and accidently contacts a possible killer in an Internet chatroom. She and her friend Misty enter a virtual game that that becomes all too real.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, erotic, slasher
Similar in 80%
Breaking Dawn (2004)
Plot Summary:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, suspense
Similar in 84%
White of the Eye (1987)
Plot Summary:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir
Similar in 76%
Night School (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychotronic, retro, bloody, detective, grindhouse
Similar in 90%
Roman (2006)
Plot Summary:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 85%
The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
Similar in 79%
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)
Plot Summary:
Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. During the evening, a stranger knocks on the door asking Julia if she can call the auto club so he can get a tow. The phone line is dead though. This is all part of the act as he has made his way inside and abducted the two children.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark, spooky, psychological, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, slasher
Similar in 81%
Blood Trails (2006)
Plot Summary:
The biker Anne has a violent one night stand with the supposed cop Chris after a minor infraction. Two days later, feeling guilty and traumatized, she decides to go hiking with her boyfriend Michael in the Whistler chain of mountains, a spot where bicycles are prohibited. When she sees Chris riding a bike, she tells Michael about her affair, and Chris unexpectedly kills Michael. Along the rest of the day and night, Anne is chased by Chris in a sick and mortal mouse-and-cat game.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspense, mysterious, slasher horror, awful
Similar in 79%
Alone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Smiley (2012)
Plot Summary:
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cyber, demonic, psychological horror
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Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
Plot Summary:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, bloody, independent film
Similar in 81%
Rosewood Lane (2011)
Plot Summary:
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens). She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, slasher, realistic
Similar in 84%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Plot Summary:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, tense, realistic
Similar in 87%
Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
Similar in 85%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
Similar in 87%
The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal, slasher, suspense, disturbing, controversial, scary
Similar in 84%
The Card Player (2003)
Plot Summary:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspense, detective, grindhouse, cult horror, scary
Similar in 75%
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, slasher
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, mind twisting, mind blowing, twisted
Similar in 89%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
Similar in 81%
The Killing Floor (2007)
Plot Summary:
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense, rough, surprise ending, detective, microfilm
Similar in 84%
Salvage (2006)
Plot Summary:
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, mind bending, disturbing, clever, suspense, mind blowing, rough
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 89%
Keep Watching (2017)
Plot Summary:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, realistic, surprise ending, captivating, suspense, psychological, dark
Similar in 75%
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 82%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, creepy, rough, grindhouse
Similar in 78%
Halloween (1978)
Plot Summary:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, slasher horror, psychological thriller, creepy, dark
Similar in 86%
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, slasher, grindhouse, tense, suspense, rough, erotic, surreal