Best movies like The Carpenter
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Plot Summary:
A carpenter, who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, mystic, independent film
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Grandmother's House (1988)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, Lynn and her younger brother David have to move in with their grandparents. Their mother died already when they were young, so they were told. One morning a dead man is found near their new home. A friend tells David, that it's not the first. Shortly after he sees his grandparents carry a body into the garage - are they the murderers? David calls the sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, scary, pastoral, independent film, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 82%
Hex (1980)
Plot Summary:
Constantly mistreated by her cruel, alcoholic husband Chun-yu (Wang Jung), frail Chan Sau-ying (Tanny Tien Ni) awaits certain death from tuberculosis. New servant girl Yi-wah (Chen Szu-chia) takes pity on her mistress' plight but, after suffering Chun-yu's abuse once too often, the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance. Yi-wah dismisses her claims as the delusions brought about by guilt and her illness but it appears that the house is indeed being haunted by a corpse that will not be easily appeased.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, poliziottesco, weird, cult film
Similar in 85%
Terminal Choice (1985)
Plot Summary:
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, psychotronic, tech noir, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 84%
Sledgehammer (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 75%
The Wind (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, suspense, cult film
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 88%
Silent Madness (1984)
Plot Summary:
A homicidal maniac is accidentally released from a hospital because of a computer error and heads to the site (a sorority) of his past murders to continue his penchant for mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, slasher horror, weird, cult film
Similar in 82%
Destroyer (1988)
Plot Summary:
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, bloody, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Bloody Monks (1989)
Plot Summary:
When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman in this supernatural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 90%
Prom Night II (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, teen horror, cult classic, suspense, serious, splatter, psychotronic, psychological, retro
Similar in 86%
Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be to late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, dark, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Ring Around the Rosie (2006)
Plot Summary:
While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, slasher, awful
Similar in 89%
Come Play With Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, an insecure young woman, begins babysitting two troublesome siblings that turn her job into a complete living hell. That is until a devilish presence starts messing with the trio and they must band together to fight the demon away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
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 78%
Zombie Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tony Washington is killed by a gang of rampant trendy teenagers. Molly Mokembe is a voodoo lady who brings him back from the dead to seek revenge on his killers so he can rest in peace.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
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 85%
The Ferryman (2007)
Plot Summary:
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John Rhys-Davies) has been cheating death for countless years. Trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, brutal, suspense, awful
Similar in 87%
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 76%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting, humorous, suspense, independent film
Similar in 85%
Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
Similar in 81%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 77%
Midnight Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970's, a slasher flick was released named The Dark Beneath. The director and star of the movie Ted Radford suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. His doctor attempts to cure him by showing him his movie, which he is obsessed with. Dr. Wayne, a psychiatrist, is skeptical about this idea, but leaves for the night. When he comes back the next morning, its a bloodbath, however none of the bodies were recovered. The film changes to five years later at local theater where a midnight horror movie being shown is The Dark Beneath, the first time the movie has been shown since the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, rough, serious, bloody, suspense, entertaining, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 77%
House IV (1992)
Plot Summary:
Roger Cobb (William Katt) is killed in a car accident. His family must move into the house that has haunted him for several years. Soon the family begins to experience scary and unexplained phenomena.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, classic horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, dark, classic horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 87%
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark, disturbing
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 77%
Haunter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, enigmatic, demonic, grindhouse, creepy, psychological thriller, spooky
Similar in 80%
Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, gothic, splatter, frightening, dark, suspenseful, bad ending, atmospheric, intense
Similar in 76%
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 81%
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Plot Summary:
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, teen, surprise ending, intense, psychological thriller, gothic