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Plot Summary:
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, erotic, brutal, cult classic, classic horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic
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The Murder Clinic (1966)
Plot Summary:
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, slasher, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film, period piece, slasher horror
Similar in 83%
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
Plot Summary:
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. The Ambassador, who was the dead woman's lover, refuses to cooperate with the police due to his diplomatic immunity. John Norton, an ex-cop famed for his brutal working methods, is brought in to help and gets too deeply involved when he stars an affair with the Ambassador's beautiful step-daughter, Helen. Meanwhile, the brutal killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, detective, cult film
Similar in 83%
Demonia (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns whom were murdered 500 years earlier and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, dark, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, stylized
Similar in 78%
Night of the Seagulls (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Knight Templars return in this fourth installment of the Blind Dead seris. On this outing, the Templars haunt a fishing village, where they rise seven nights every seven years to claim their sacrificial offerings in return for the safety of the townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, classic horror, epic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
Plot Summary:
Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, surprise ending, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Similar in 84%
An Angel for Satan (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror
Similar in 79%
Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Plot Summary:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 81%
The Girl in Room 2A (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, psychological thriller, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, perverse, cult film
Similar in 87%
The Stalker (2020)
Plot Summary:
The man only known as the Stalker, is looking for the Hamilton's, and is willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. Embark on this horror, mystery, thrill ride, that takes you back to the classic films of the genre.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, suspense, intense, scary, psychotronic, independent film, surprise ending, classic horror, frightening
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Ghost Lake (2004)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, experimental, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Eyeball (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, erotic, scary, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse
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The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it that a fiendish Red Lady is to return to the castle every hundred years and kill seven people. Fourteen years later, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) has become a successful fashion photographer. Suddenly, people begin to get murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, exciting, psychotronic, erotic, retro
Similar in 80%
The Slayer (1982)
Plot Summary:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
God Told Me To (1976)
Plot Summary:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, grindhouse, suspense, slasher, surreal, disturbing, detective
Similar in 78%
The Other Hell (1981)
Plot Summary:
A modern priest investigates nuns' claims that the Devil is present in their nunnery.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, sadistic, satanic, disturbing, demonic, splatter, independent film, grindhouse, creepy
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Dead & Buried (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense, surreal, cult classic, frightening, suspenseful, scary
Similar in 88%
The Psychic (1977)
Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, suspense thriller
Similar in 78%
What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, poliziottesco, psychological thriller, sadistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, creepy, erotic
Similar in 88%
Autopsy (1975)
Plot Summary:
A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, slasher, cult classic, erotic, scary, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending
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The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, classic horror, grindhouse, erotic, suspense
Similar in 89%
Opera (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody, creepy, grindhouse, atmospheric, surreal, controversial
Similar in 90%
A Bay of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, bloody, gothic, psychological, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 80%
Curtains (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher horror, retro, bloody, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Pet Sematary (2019)
Plot Summary:
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, spooky, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychedelic, gothic, dark
Similar in 81%
Deep Red (1975)
Plot Summary:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, tense
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, dark, disturbing, grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, suspense, creepy
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Plot Summary:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands - and blade - of the lecherous maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, sensual, erotic
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, slasher, grindhouse, tense, suspense, rough, erotic, surreal