Best movies like The Butcher
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Plot Summary:
Relentlessly gruesome, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jin-Won's torture flick chronicles the making of a snuff film from two perspectives: that of the sadistic producers and that of the unfortunate "stars." Their terror captured through vérité-style camera work, the victims are made to endure the agonizing screams of their fellow captives before meeting their own grim fate at the hands the titular butcher in his bloody abattoir.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, terrifying, independent film
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A Record of Sweet Murder (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sang-joon has recently escaped from a mental institution and managed to amass a kill count in the high teens, all while spewing nonsense about “the power of love”.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, mockumentary
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Lucker the Necrophagous (1986)
Plot Summary:
John Lucker is a serial rapist/murderer with a necrophilia fetish. Eight years ago, he went on a killing spree that took eight victims, until he was finally caught and institutionalized. Now he's been put in a private clinic after attempting suicide during a mental hospital transfer. He awakens from his drugged state to kill his two nurses, and then heads in for the town. When he hears on the news that one of his victims, Cathy Jordan had survived his rampage eight years ago, he becomes furious, and that rage becomes infested as a physical psychosis that can only be relieved by killing more women as he heads to kill his survivor. One the corpses he keeps to "commit the deed" with a week later before returning on his search for Cathy. He kills one woman and captures another on the way, and then finds Cathy. He psychologically torments both women, but Cathy is able to get away. Lucker, now furious, heads off to settle the score once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, bloody, experimental, controversial, psychotronic, independent film, banned film
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The Tapes (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fame-hungry Gemma asks her boyfriend Danny and his media student mate Nathan to film her Big Brother audition. They hear about a sex party and change course, but soon wish they hadn't as the party goers turn out to be devil worshippers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary, cult film
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A Fucking Cruel Nightmare (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man wanders down a corridor and as he appears into each room that he passes by he becomes witness to acts of unbelievable cruelty as people are viciously and brutally tortured and murdered. Is it real or is it a nightmare?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, sadistic, disturbing, controversial
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Debris Documentar (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man unknowingly leads a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, brutal, controversial, splatter, independent film
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The Coma-Brutal Duel (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a man is killed by a drunk driving, his son wants revenge, which starts a big battle that will continue for years.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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The Gateway Meat (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Gateway Meat is a disturbing and sadistic film, that strays far from the normal conventions of the horror genre. It is about a group of Satanists, living in a quaint, coastal fishing town. As the film progresses we get to know the character played by DeCaro himself, Markus. The film is mainly about how Markus struggles as he tries to deal with the great expectations that are placed on him after his fathers death. Markus' father, who was a Satanist, was trying to open up a portal into hell. Now that he is gone, Markus must take the reigns, and gain the power that his father wanted. With the help of his family and a couple of friends, Markus murders his way to power, as his young, preschool aged daughter watches.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: disturbing, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, sadistic, bloody, controversial, extreme horror, low-budget
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Meat Grinder (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a noodle stall worker goes missing, her boyfriend goes looking for her at her workplace. The noodle stall owner, Buss (Mai Charoenpura), acts suspiciously jittery and not long after, the boyfriend is kidnapped and tortured. After all, Buss has plenty to be worried about. Her soup stock for her famous noodles contains people she has slaughtered, and she may have just fallen in love with someone who knows nothing about it.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, weird
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Girl Hell 1999 (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of an innocent woman called Misaki. Her mother is gone and her sister is disabled from a car accident. Her father sexually molests the two girls and Misaki and her and a friend turn to prostitution. It is only a matter of time before Misaki reaches breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, extreme horror, perverse, weird
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Necrophile Passion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Solitary and alone, left by his girlfriend, after being treated badly by her, a young man finds a female body in the woods. His conscience tells him to call the police, but something inside him, something evil commands him to take the corpse with him and satisfy his darkest desires. His Life is total pieces of trash and only the love to the female corpse gives him the power to continue his life. But he hasn't finished with his girlfriend yet and so he decides that it's time to get his revenge once and for all. Who will be the winner in this love triangle? The man, the woman or the corpse?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Black Past (1989)
Plot Summary:
Thommy and his family move to a new place. In the attic, he finds a box surrounded with chains. He opens it. In the box, he finds a mirror and a diary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Bone Sickness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, medical horror, terrifying, independent film, weird, cult film
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Nutbag (2000)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer stalks prostitutes on the mean streets of Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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Slow Torture Puke Chamber (2010)
Plot Summary:
Making good on her pact with Satan, Angela Aberdeen's tortured and vomit-soaked soul descends into Hell. But Satan is not finished with her yet - He has more suffering planned for his ravaged slave. Angela is sent back up to the surface to stalk and destroy yet another victim. Her return initiates the emergence of a new Angela who is steadily and painfully infected with the Devil's Curse. An appalling metamorphosis befalls the chosen young victim as she is racked by bulimia, and subjected to the dark, forbidden secrets of incest of abuse. Slowly, the two Angelas merge into one Perfect Child of Satan and descend to an eternity of suffering in Hell.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, extreme horror, rough, brutal, bleak, suspense, slasher, controversial, splatter
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Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness (2012)
Plot Summary:
He is a washed-up boxer waiting for his big chance to prove himself worthy of the champion's title, but above all, he is a man in a hopeless struggle to earn his mother's approval, a fraction of her affection, a glimpse of her respect... Finally, a big opportunity appears and his manager offers him the chance of a lifetime in a win-all, lose-all title fight. Rejected by his mother, frustrated and void of any feelings, he will become a slave of pure evil, a tool of destruction of the human flesh. With every soul he provides, the sinister bond tightens and the bigger the suffering, the greater the power bestowed to this apt pupil soon-to-be hell's champion.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: Chile
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, controversial, weird
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Violent Shit II (1992)
Plot Summary:
Drilled by his deranged mother, Karl the Butcher jr. takes revenge for the gruesome death of his father. Anyone who sets foot on the forest has to die. Hold on to your limbs as Karl jr. slaughter his victims to some amazing tunes of terror. Decapitation is just the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, splatter, cult film
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Violent Shit (1989)
Plot Summary:
A demented, wicked, deformed, cannibalistic killer named K. The Butcher Shitter, escapes from the police and slaughters people in many gory, bloody ways.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, extreme horror, splatter, psychotronic, cult film
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Pig (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, extreme horror, weird
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American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two victims are graphically tortured in this American reimagining of the popular underground Japanese film series.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, extreme horror, tense, bleak, psychological, psychedelic, bloody, slasher
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Atrocious (2015)
Plot Summary:
Atrocious is a film that portrays the story of two serial killers, who after being arrested for causing a traffic accident, police confiscate some videotapes. These tapes contain brutal murders that show human wickedness, their background, paraphilias and psyche of these murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, scary, bleak, psychotronic, splatter, perverse, banned film
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August Underground's Penance (2007)
Plot Summary:
"August Underground's Penance" is basically the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on murder spree.Again two nameless butchers played by Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles videotape their bloodthirsty madness,but "Penance" shows also their slow decline.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, disturbing, controversial, brutal, bloody, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, perverse, frightening
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The Burning Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, disturbing, extreme horror, slasher, brutal, controversial, dark fairy tale, perverse, terrifying
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Shogun's Sadism (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her personal slave to torment him, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the cruel master of a brothel to repay his debts, he becomes friends with the young girl Sato. Together, they escape and try to get by on scams and theft.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, depressing, controversial, anthology, extreme horror, transgressive, sadistic
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August Underground's Mordum (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged friends bring along another guy to go on a random murder rampage. They kidnapped lesbian lovers, couples and they torture them in any way that the viewer can imagine. Your worst fears will come true in this shocking account of a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, bleak, realistic, scary, tense, serious, bloody, controversial, disgusting
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Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006)
Plot Summary:
The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, satanic, psychological, rough, bleak, brutal, bloody, independent film, suspense
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Red Room (1999)
Plot Summary:
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychological, splatter, extreme horror, heavy, terrifying, scary, rough, bleak
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ReGOREgitated Sacrifice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Guided by identical twin demon spirits, The Black Angels of Hell, we see the diabolical depiction of the alternate-parallel dimension of the simultaneous suicide deaths of Kurt Cobain and bulimic porn star Angela Aberdeen, as seen through the mental activity of Angela's journey toward brain death as a result of her self-inflicted death by drowning.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, disturbing, brutal, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, controversial, perverse
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Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)
Plot Summary:
An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore he breaks down and dismembers her body.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, serious, bloody, controversial, disgusting, psychedelic, surreal, perverse
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Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, psychedelic, bloody, disturbing, controversial, perverse, terrifying, weird, cult film, asian horror
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August Underground (2001)
Plot Summary:
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, suspense, controversial, mockumentary, rough, bloody, slasher, disgusting, splatter