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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Angel Negro (2000)
Plot Summary:
Angel Negro (Black Angel) goes back to 1990, when a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
Similar in 76%
Harvesters (2001)
Plot Summary:
Harvesters is an action-packed thriller about a small-time gang of misfits led by lesbian Gulf War veteran Frankie Falzone. After she thrashes a redneck at a strip club, she and her gang move on to a small town where they rob a liquor store and kill the clerk. When their car conks out, they carjack a young woman and force her to take them to her family's home - located off the beaten path deep in the woods. Meanwhile, two U.S. marshals are hot on the tails of the gang. When the marshals track the gang to the home of Herbert and Betty Peelman, the real horror begins. Harvesters is a classic tale of two evils clashing in a life-and-death struggle for survival. Who lives and who dies? Joe Bob Briggs, in his nationally syndicated column, 'Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In,' said that Harvesters has...parallels to the great twisted backwoods families of film history, a la Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Motel Hell.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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The Legend of Johnny Jones (2024)
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Born in the New Jersey public housing, the young Johnny Jones (Robert Crayton) in his life has known only abuse and poverty. Pushed over the edge, Johnny Jones suffers a mental breakdown and ignites a killing spree never seen in history, leaving a trail of death and carnage everywhere he goes. While the tensions and the murders only get worse, the city calls Detective Cutchin (Tom Sizemore) to solve the case and bring Johnny Jones to justice.
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Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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Plot tags: slasher, detective
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Fear the Night (2023)
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During a bachelorette party in a secluded California farmhouse, masked intruders launch a brutal attack, forcing eight women to fight for survival. Led by Tess, a troubled military veteran, they unite to defend themselves throughout a harrowing night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979)
Plot Summary:
A photographer cruises Hollywood and takes pictures of young models he then strangles. Meanwhile, a woman who works in a porno bookstore in downtown L.A. takes it upon herself to kill off the local derelicts. Soon the two killers meet up with each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Ghost Dance (1982)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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The Inherited (2009)
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When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. Between incest and murder lies his future, if he can survive long enough to embrace his destiny. The old adage proves true. Nothing in life is free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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The Majorettes (1986)
Plot Summary:
A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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The Zero Boys (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, spooky, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Damon's Revenge (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of young adults spend the weekend at a friend's house by the lake. Joined by the local sheriff, the group encounters an escaped convict Native American chief, a copycat killer and the return of the terrifying masked killer, Damon.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Fatal Pulse (1988)
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A girl is killed and raped minutes after fighting with her boyfriend (Jeff) and he left her. Jeff is the assistant of professor Caldwell at the university, and he wanted to return with his old girlfriend (Lisa). The girl lived with another five girls, including Lisa. All these girls begin to be killed, one by one, in different and strange ways. The main suspect is Jeff.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Blood Voyage (1976)
Plot Summary:
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult film
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Bloodbath in Psycho Town (1989)
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The plot concerns two documentary film students who travel to a small, isolated town in the middle of nowhere to film a documentary about murders that occurred there. Soon they are stalked by someone who is afraid the students are getting to close to a close guarded secret in the town that led to the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, student film
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Satanic Attraction (1989)
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Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like someone or some group is using her show to get ideas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, slasher horror
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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Criminally Insane 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, spooky, independent film
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Slumber Party Slaughter Party 2 (2023)
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Four years after a series of brutal murders took place, a psychotic killer returns to wreak havoc.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Nightmare (2000)
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Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, slasher, bloody, queer horror, psychotronic
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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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Exit to Hell (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of stick-up kids rob a mafia run strip club and head for the border but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold! Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with a true appetite for justice! The film co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grind-House cinema. Horror Legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) is Sheriff Slade Sickle, and when a group of stick up kids arrive in his town, they find that justice is a dish best served cold. Expect buckets of blood, bullets and mayhem in this tribute to American Grindhouse. - Written by Anonymous (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, exciting, humorous, grindhouse
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5 Dark Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of popular teenagers trick three unsuspecting classmates into the woods to see what it's like to kill someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Horror, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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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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The Centerfold Girls (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police try to halt a psychotic killer's (Andrew Prine) rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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Scar (2007)
Plot Summary:
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, realistic, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, bloody, suspense, independent film
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The Collected (2020)
Plot Summary:
The third film in The Collector series, following "The Collector" (2009) and "The Collection" (2012).
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Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, brutal
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Mummy Maniac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, funny, suspense
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Wreckage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Halloween Kills (2021)
Plot Summary:
The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric, bloody, intense, thrilling, psychological thriller, suspenseful