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Plot Summary:
Alone and isolated at the family ranch, Tommy and his sister June suddenly find themselves being terrorized and hunted by a pair of nomadic killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Eden Lodge (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple arrive at a retreat in the English countryside in the hope of saving their failing marriage. But when the people around them start to be picked off by a vicious killer, the weekend becomes a matter of saving their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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President's Day (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are hunted by a madman in an Abraham Lincoln disguise.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark comedy, teen horror
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Primal Shift (2015)
Plot Summary:
A naive and socially repressed June hits the road with her new boyfriend, Max, on their first romantic trip down the coast. When a hitchhiker suddenly winds up dead in their RV, June can't deny the overwhelming thrill and lust for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, road movie
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Hole (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is the detective looking for answers. All 3 lives intertwine with horrific consequences when their fears come upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, spiritual, cult film
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Eye Without a Face (2021)
Plot Summary:
Agoraphobic young man Henry, living with a Youtuber and struggling actor Eric, hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, twisted
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Thrill Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three seemingly normal teenagers commit a heinous murder for the sheer excitement of the act & their master ploy slowly crumbles to pieces... Thrill Kill is a dark, suspenseful tale which explores the cynical relationship between three lost teenagers left drifting alone in a foreclosed corner of Small Town America feeding on booze, pop culture, drugs, violent video games & plotting the unthinkable... a gruesome murder for the thrill of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bloodline (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sandra's twin sister was brutally murdered by a serial killer when they were children. Fifteen years later Sandra is now a professional journalist whose career is on the fritz. Sandra is given one last shot - an assignment which will prove the toughest of her life. She is sent back to the location of her sister's murder to shoot a behind-the-scenes expose for a hardcore porn flick. There she will be forced to confront the ghosts of her past as a new copycat killer has his sights set on Sandra.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Capps Crossing (2017)
Plot Summary:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Blue Call (2021)
Plot Summary:
Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young woman. Now, falling deeper into a rabbit hole, she gets caught up in a world of underground drugs and a sadistic killer who’s made her his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, psychotronic, psychological, medical horror
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Bloody Slumber Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
After Kelly broke up with Rick, her abusive boyfriend, her friends had a slumber party to cheer her up. As they are telling horror stories, there is a killer in the house coming for them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
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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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Chop Chop (2020)
Plot Summary:
A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Taught in Cold Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Central Park (2017)
Plot Summary:
School is boring, family life unbearable, and Harold and his high school friends have turned Central Park into their 'spot'. Unbeknownst to them, a revenge-seeking executioner prepares to kill them off one by one to pay for the sins of the father.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, teen horror
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Death Heads: Brain Drain (2018)
Plot Summary:
The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Halloween Awakening: The Legacy of Michael Myers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michael Myers stalks a group of party-goers who break into Smith's Grove Sanitarium on Halloween night.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killer Shorts 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Faux Pas Films' third feature length film "KILLER SHORTS 2", the second installment in the horror anthology series. This movie is another throwback to the old days of horror hosts such as Elvira and the Twilight Zone that introduced the macabre scenes in frightful and comedic ways. Features 3 new shorts: "The Killer's Meow" - A group of friends decide to party in an old abandoned house but the house isn't as abandoned as they thought. When they encounter the crazy cat lady, members of the group begin to disappear. Can those remaining figure out the mystery before they too fall victim to the killer's meow? "The Last Rendezvous 2: Retribution" - We continue the story of Wendell and Samantha as a masked killer once again stalks and kills all around them. A huge cast filled with mysteries comes to light in the conclusion to the film that began in Killer Shorts 1. "The Opportunist" - Aden is struggling with kidney stones yet trying to be somewhat sociable. When he meets Melinda, spark fly.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Heart of the Home (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life turns into a living nightmare when she takes in a roommate who makes wigs from human hair.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Lake Fear 2: The Swamp (2019)
Plot Summary:
It's March in South Florida. The beach towns are flush with young people looking for action and excitement. For one unlucky group of thrill-seeking spring breakers, their adventure leads to the black waters of the Florida Everglades - a place with mosquitoes the size of birds, snakes as long as school buses and tens of thousands of flesh-ripping alligators. But beyond the scope of the traditional predators famous for keeping the glades wild is another phenomenon - one with two legs and an insatiable thirst for killing.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Backstabber (2011)
Plot Summary:
Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, thinking outside the box, and risk management as they fight for survival from a deranged killer bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Leaf Blower Massacre 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After finding out about the brutal murder of his fiancé, Shavar seeks revenge against a masked killer with a penchant for yard work weaponry. Fall will be the season of fear.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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KILD TV (2016)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a local horror movie showcase, used to broadcasting creepy stories of heinous killers, finds themselves trapped with a real killer among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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After Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring break for seven college students is derailed with one wrong turn. A flat tire on a deserted road leaves them stranded after dark in the company of a menacing drifter who may or may not be trying to help.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Kruel (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Kruel' - is a horror/thriller feature length movie about a psychotic killer who masquerades as an ice cream man in order to get closer to the objects of his affection.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Face: A Frat Party Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
An annual Halloween fear competition between a fraternity and sorority goes awry when drugs, alcohol and the old battle of the sexes are mixed together. What is on the line? The losers must do anything the winners ask for one night. The bros won last year. They not only violated the loser but uploaded the footage on the internet. Jamie, the head of the sorority, wants vengeance. She has concocted a devilish plan to humiliate the frat brothers and come out on top. However, she is not aware that Matt, the head of the fraternity, has machinations of his own. Who will win this year? At what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Victimized (2014)
Plot Summary:
Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film