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Plot Summary:
An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like Something Weird (1967):
Similar in 76%
Sleepstalker (1995)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 87%
Death's Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a television psychic begins to get real results, the cast and crew of the show find themselves trapped by vengeful spirits.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Blood Shack (1971)
Plot Summary:
A woman inherits an abandoned ranch whose estate is said to be haunted by "the Chooper," the sword-wielding ghost of a vengeance-seeking Indian, in this Ray Dennis Steckler shocker.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
The Touch of Satan (1971)
Plot Summary:
A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Melissa grow closer as Melissa begins to reveal the strange, dark history of her family.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Blood Legend (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find neither are really what she expected. The resurrected lover is not exactly the beautiful woman her uncle talked of in years past and the rewards her uncle had in mind for her are not made of a princes' fairy tales. The young witch finds the real truth of the "Blood Lengend".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Similar in 87%
1313: Cougar Cult (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rufus, Darwin, and Coopersmith are three nerdy, but hunky young college students who score themselves a dream summer job working at a swanky mansion owned by wealthy and sexy middle-aged babes Clara, Victoria, and Edwina. However, the gals turn out to be a coven of deadly witches who transform into flesh-eating cougars who need fresh young man meat in order to live forever.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, serious, suspenseful, independent film, homoerotic, campy
Similar in 79%
Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
Similar in 75%
Cameron's Closet (1988)
Plot Summary:
A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, psychological horror
Similar in 88%
The Dead Matter (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
Similar in 88%
Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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The Raven (2006)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore (Jillian Swanson) finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer from beyond the grave. Only in her dreams -- in which she's visited by Poe's ghost -- will Lenore find the key to defeat her supernatural stalker and finally escape the spirits battling for her soul.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, psychotronic, suspense
Similar in 83%
Aunt Rose (2005)
Plot Summary:
A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but what they didn't realize was that they had entered into the home of a truly terrifying family. But the folks downstairs are the least of their worries, because by the time these sadistic beasts discover the unearthly powers of the woman who dwells on the third floor, it's already too late for any hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, offbeat
Similar in 89%
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
Similar in 76%
Terror (1978)
Plot Summary:
A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, silent
Similar in 89%
Ouija Craft (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two witches use a Ouija board to resurrect their friend after she dies in a tragic accident.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, demonic, cult horror, terrifying, ridiculous
Similar in 90%
Zombie Farm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Similar in 88%
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
Similar in 77%
Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
Similar in 81%
Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
Similar in 83%
Manhattan Baby (1982)
Plot Summary:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
A Taste of Blood (1967)
Plot Summary:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
Similar in 80%
Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
Similar in 87%
Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 75%
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
Similar in 79%
The Hollow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, gothic horror, tense, suspense, scary, mockbuster, horror comedy, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological