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Plot Summary:
One hundred years ago, an evil bonesetter was killed for his crimes against children. Now in the present a single mother and a shy librarian must discover who is behind a rash of child abductions, is the Bonesetter back to finish his depraved work?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing, dark, road movie
Similar in 77%
Deadtime (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Birmingham-based band are ordered by their unhappy record company to an old warehouse; the goal being to re-start their ailing careers with a kick-ass new promo video. Unfortunately the band and their entourage find themselves targets of a mysterious knife-wielding maniac, haunted by the voice of Satan, and out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, semi serious, suspense, humorous, realistic, psychotronic, slasher horror
Similar in 77%
Mercy Black (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years after conjuring an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and young nephew. But as Mercy continues to haunt her and the death count rises, she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth of her past before Mercy Black claims her nephew. Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Lee Eddy, and Janeane Garofalo star in this terrifying story of regret, redemption, and the dark side of belief.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, thrilling, interesting
Similar in 83%
Final Curtain (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of actors are rehearsing a supposedly cursed play- When the body count rises the actors must ask themselves, is the curse real or is there a murderer among them?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Dreadtime Stories (2014)
Plot Summary:
A party turns bizarre when a malevolent book makes its way into the hands of the attendees who reveal its tales of monsters, madmen and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, bleak, scary, dark fairy tale, road movie
Similar in 79%
Dead 7 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Homicidal meth dealers murder a deaf-mute; his nutbar sister turns to the supernatural for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
Similar in 80%
Starve (2014)
Plot Summary:
While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
The Bonesetter Returns (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
Similar in 88%
The Greenskeeper (2002)
Plot Summary:
An assistant greenskeeper invites friends for a country club birthday party. A killer dressed as a greenskeeper crashes the party and kills people with golf tools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, slasher horror
Similar in 75%
Bloody Mary (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher, bleak, bloody
Similar in 82%
The Bridge Curse (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four years after five students mysteriously committed suicide after taking part in a courage test on the ghost bridge in Donghu university, a reporter and a cinematographer are back to that place and try to get everything clear.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, captivating, scary, surreal
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Lycan (2017)
Plot Summary:
When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Torment (2013)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Sarah and Cory Morgan have decided to take a relaxing holiday with Cory’s 7 year old son Liam to try and smooth over some of the teething problems Liam is having with his new Mom. Despite the idyllic location of Cory’s isolated and luxurious country house, the family soon realize they have made a mistake in going there. Someone has been using the house in their absence. Their unwanted house guests will soon reveal themselves and the family will find itself caught up in a fight for their lives. What was planned as a relaxing getaway quickly turns into their worst nightmare as the family find themselves on a holiday from hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, serious, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, tension
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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Don't Leave Home (2018)
Plot Summary:
An American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, mumblecore, demonic, surreal, psychotronic
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Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 76%
Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective bachelor/bachelorette parties. Ryan's best man Chet books a remote cabin in the woods to throw them a 'Jack and Jill' stag that they'll never forget. Out in the middle of nowhere, things take a horrifying turn as members of the group are brutally picked off one by one. What started out as a celebration quickly descends into a bloody nightmare. Friendships are ripped apart and accusations fly in this blood filled psychological horror with a whodunit twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, realistic
Similar in 89%
Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. Sam Loomis once treated unstoppable killer Michael Myers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Hold Your Breath (2012)
Plot Summary:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Darker than Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Fingerprints (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher
Similar in 80%
Sam's Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions and memories of the past deep within an isolated forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Incubus (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, demonic
Similar in 84%
The Cry (2007)
Plot Summary:
In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican witch Gloria, the woman advises that a powerful evil force is chasing the reincarnation of her son and drowning the other children to bring pain to their mothers.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic, hispanic
Similar in 85%
The Wisher (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, teen horror
Similar in 88%
Playback (2012)
Plot Summary:
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, interesting
Similar in 79%
Varsity Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jocks and cheerleaders head out to a remote farmhouse for a raucous Halloween party, but someone dressed as their school mascot intends to slaughter them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, rough, captivating, suspense, bloody, scary, humorous
Similar in 78%
The Butcher (2006)
Plot Summary:
A tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere finds six stranded college students fighting for their lives after making a horrifying discovery in a remote farmhouse in director Edward Gorsuch's rural frightener. With no place to run and no police station for miles, these doomed students are about to discover that down home hospitality is the last thing on the minds of the murderous family who stalks them through the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, serious, cult film, awful
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, perverse, surprise ending
Similar in 82%
Candyman (2021)
Plot Summary:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, bloody, dark, suspenseful, rough, psychological, social, demonic