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Plot Summary:
Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, dark drama, independent film, rough, bleak
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Bleed (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dana is failing Biology. To pass she must attend an extra credit assignment with several classmates that will lead them into a remote region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a place teeming with life... and death. While the group keeps one eye out for hungry bear, deadly snakes and lurking gators, they are unaware of the real danger. For the top of the food chain lives in a dingy cabin not too far from their campsite, and he has an appetite for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film
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The Retreat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, queer horror, slasher horror, queer cinema
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No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, underground film, detective, perverse
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Visiting Hours (1982)
Plot Summary:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary, bloody
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Backwoods (1988)
Plot Summary:
Karen and Jamie bike out to a remote wooded area for camping. Jamie saves a young girl’s life with an emergency tracheotomy and her grateful father, Eben, invites the campers to his place for some dinner...where they also meet William, Eben’s beastly geek son.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, independent film, tension, slasher horror
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The Devil's Ground (2009)
Plot Summary:
While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with blood on her face. She gives a lift to the girl and listens to the tale of her passenger and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Dying Breed (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the depths of the Tasmanian wilderness a group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger. They encounter a group of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce, who was hung for cannibalism in 1824, out to find fresh breeding stock.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, spooky, serious, surprise ending
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Grizzly (1976)
Plot Summary:
A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, suspense, funny, retro, gothic horror
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Hunter's Blood (1986)
Plot Summary:
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they have to get out of the woods alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cult film
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Primal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, brutal, bloody, slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, twisted
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The House by the Lake (1976)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, realistic
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
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Storm Warning (2007)
Plot Summary:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, serious, brutal, disturbing, bloody, dark
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Crowsnest (2012)
Plot Summary:
In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary, independent film, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, grindhouse
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High Lane (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological, dread, perverse
Similar in 81%
Just Before Dawn (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there's a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, independent film, serious, suspense
Similar in 78%
Madman (1981)
Plot Summary:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious, grindhouse, slasher horror, cult horror, independent film, suspense
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Timber Falls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bleak, slasher, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, splatter
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Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
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Wolf Creek (2005)
Plot Summary:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, bloody, dark, splatter
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Wrong Turn (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, feel good, bloody, dark, cult horror
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, scary, intense, bloody, grindhouse, brutal, slasher
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Backcountry (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, natural horror, scary, disturbing
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy
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The Ruins (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, bloody, disturbing, splatter
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House of Wax (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, gothic, serious, bloody, creepy, psychological
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The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter
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Deliverance (1972)
Plot Summary:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, suspense, southern gothic, controversial, rough