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Plot Summary:
A weekend of 'fear therapy' turns into a nightmare of terror when a mannequin comes to life. Only those with the courage to confront their demons will survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, independent film, serious, atmospheric, sexy
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A Crack in the Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
For the past 33 years Jeremiah Hill has lived alone, with no contact with the outside world, and he intends to keep it that way. Jeremiah's mother had always warned him not to associate with the outside world, and her brutal rape and killing right before his eyes taught him a lesson he intends never to forget; and those who enter his world will pay a deadly price. As Lehman and his five friends from L.A. start their weekend camping trip they run into Tyler Trout and Floyd Fryed who represent the gateway into this distorted world that they are about to enter. These things just don't happen in sheriff Talmidge and deputy Kevin Gordon's small mountain town, and by stumbling upon this lonely cabin in the woods, they have shattered 33 years of solitude in Jeremiah's world... And unbeknownst to Lehman and his friends, soon their weekend trip of hiking and camping will become a nightmare of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, slasher horror
Similar in 87%
In the Woods (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out of the woods becomes a nightmare for the two men.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 79%
The Final Curtain (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face the consequences for their actions.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 90%
Seance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over Thanksgiving weekend, all but five students in an old Manhattan building that's now a college dormitory leave for home: staying on one floor are roommates Lauren, Melina, and Alison, plus her boyfriend Diego and Grant, a loner in a room down the hall. Lauren's been seeing things in her bathroom: a silent child of about six. Diego has written a paper on parapsychology, so he holds a séance with the disbelieving co-eds. Something goes awry, because bad things start to happen and the students' only defender is an aging campus cop named Syd. What's the silent ghostly girl's secret, and can Alison discover what's going on before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror, scary, slasher, semi serious
Similar in 78%
Shriek (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, queer horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema, cult film
Similar in 79%
Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, independent film
Similar in 78%
Cult (2007)
Plot Summary:
While researching a local cult, four college students uncover the existence of a supernatural power that may take their lives...and their souls.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, slasher, independent film
Similar in 85%
The Undertow (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, terrifying secrets of the town surface. A seven-foot-tall deformed maniac, known by the townsfolk as The Boy is kept under lock and key by the town's mayor. The Boy's purpose is simple: kill outsiders. The Mayor of Old Mines releases The Boy and the maniac's hunt begins. One by one, the campers on their float trip are ripped to gory shreds by the enraged, deformed, hulking Boy. But there is great mystery to the Boy. Who is his father? Who is his mother? How did he become so dangerous? In the end, the answers to these questions will put the entire town of Old Mines in danger. The Boy is an unstoppable killing machine, and anyone in his path won't be in one piece for long!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, independent film, atmospheric, serious, splatter
Similar in 84%
Nightmare Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a mysterious demonic African mask in the mail, Ellen Morris is attacked by a "being" she refers to as THE NIGHTMARE MAN. Her doctors and husband, William believe Ellen is a paranoid schizophrenic and needs to spend some quality time at a mental facility for further examination.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, suspense, demonic, horror comedy, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Dead Clowns (2004)
Plot Summary:
The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, but they can't hide from the truth -- or the undead.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, slasher, independent film, ridiculous
Similar in 81%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
Similar in 76%
Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
Similar in 90%
Dr. Chopper (2005)
Plot Summary:
Five young friends head out to the country for a weekend at the family cabin and run afoul of a group of motorcycle riding madwomen led by the sadistic, knife-wielding plastic surgeon Dr. Fielding.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, sadistic
Similar in 90%
Charles (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves in to their first apartment and encounters a red-headed freckled doll. Soon they discover that their home and doll reveal an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bloody, suspense, slasher
Similar in 86%
Wicked Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, dark, scary, rough
Similar in 89%
Beyond Remedy (2009)
Plot Summary:
An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
Similar in 77%
Haunted Forest (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, slasher, suspense, offbeat
Similar in 87%
The Pumpkin Karver (2006)
Plot Summary:
A feature film based on a story in which a young man is stabbed to death on the evening of October 31, 2003. One year later, at a Halloween party, six people were brutally butchered in a remote location. The victims faces were carved and mutilated beyond recognition. The crime is still unsolved and is currently under investigation. Written by Robert Mann (Writer/Director).
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, awful
Similar in 85%
Carver (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, brutal, serious, suspense, psychological horror, perverse, suspense thriller
Similar in 84%
The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 89%
Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
Similar in 78%
Bled (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood to cross over from his world to hers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sexy, tense, captivating, scary, serious, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
Similar in 76%
Mothman (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough
Similar in 78%
The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
Similar in 88%
Nailbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky
Similar in 77%
Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
Plot Summary:
Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student and a Marine to unravel the mystery once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, funny, psychotronic, fake documentary
Similar in 80%
Primitive (2011)
Plot Summary:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory monster - convince the local police that Martin is somehow responsible, and soon he comes to believe it too, as all the victims are connected to the evil within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
Similar in 80%
It Waits (2005)
Plot Summary:
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, splatter, psychotronic, corny
Similar in 83%
Tourist Trap (1979)
Plot Summary:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. Slausen's insane brother. Davey has a knack for making mannequins. In fact, his house is filled with them. Davey's enthusiasm shows when starts adding the teenagers to his collection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, bloody, grindhouse, cult horror
Similar in 80%
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, twist ending, anthology, spooky, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, creepy