Best movies like The Fiend
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Plot Summary:
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, religious horror, christian horror
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The Fear: Resurrection (1999)
Plot Summary:
It's death-by-fear (aka scared-to-death) in this deceptively psychological thriller. The hero, Mike brings his friends to his grandparents' house for a Halloween party wherein they will all dress up as their innermost fears. Mike's fear is that he's inherited a homicidal legacy from his father. Mike's father was a serial killer who murdered his mother right in front of him when Mike was five before committing suicide. Mike's fear manifests itself in his inability to commit to his girlfriend of 4 1/2 years, Peg for fear that he will kill her too. Everything gets rolling when an ancient Indian totem wooden figure named Morty comes to life and starts killing off Mike's friends by making their worst fears come true. The ultimate confrontation comes when Mike has to face his greatest fear - his own father.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 76%
Jackhammer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, awful
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Blood Link (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, independent film, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
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The Demon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, gothic horror, detective, grindhouse, psychotronic, odd
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Bikini Party Massacre (2002)
Plot Summary:
Your Wildest Fantasy Will Become Your Worst Nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Drive In (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man, confined to a room across from a drive-in theater showing only horror movies, escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Eternal Evil (1985)
Plot Summary:
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Meatcleaver Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Four crazed killers, butchered his wife, son and daughter. From his hospital deathbed he called upon the power of the occult for revenge... And he got it, he really got it!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, supernatural thriller, cult film
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Night Ripper! (1986)
Plot Summary:
A guy who does glamour shots for models and the like gets mixed up in a series of mutilation killings. The murders bare a resemblance to those committed by Jack the Ripper, and the victims are all models. Naturally, the photographer becomes a suspect. He also falls for one of his models and must try to protect her from the true killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror, low-budget
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Frightworld (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Nurse Sherri (1977)
Plot Summary:
A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: medical horror, slasher, slasher horror, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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Satan's Blade (1984)
Plot Summary:
At a mountain resort, a local resident is possessed by the evil spirit of an ancient mountain man, and terrorizes a ski lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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The Love Butcher (1975)
Plot Summary:
The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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13 Fanboy (2021)
Plot Summary:
An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond, mirroring his idol Jason Voorhees.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, bloody, suspense, psychotronic, meta
Similar in 82%
American Nightmare (2002)
Plot Summary:
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Kill Her Goats (2023)
Plot Summary:
Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends unleash a demonic Pirate from a treasure chest.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, semi serious, mockbuster, offbeat, surprise ending, splatter
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Death-Scort Service Part 2: The Naked Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the heart of Las Vegas a new killer has emerged. Having survived the previous psycho's last wrath (Michelle) Krystal "Pixie" Adams is left behind to start anew and forget about her black past. Problem is this new murderer is unstoppable!!. A new group of up and coming hookers are on the streets left to pick up the pieces and start fresh. Will they survive, or will they become prey to this maniac slasher!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, teen horror
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Mr. Cleaver (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seven gutter punks break into a seemingly abandoned warehouse only to find themselves hunted by its bloodthirsty owner. A sex, drugs, and gore throwback to the straight-to-video slasher movies of the early 90s.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, rough
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Friday the 13th: Vengeance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Friday the 13th fan film. Friday the 13th Vengeance combines death, brutality and creativity to bold storytelling in this dark take on the franchise.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, bloody, psychotronic
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Coffin Baby (2013)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young woman is kidnapped, held captive and forced to endure the evils of one of the most violent homicidal maniacs in the city's history. "The Toolbox Killer" aka TBK. It is by her will, strength and her faith that she must survive, the ordeal. Her escape is almost hopeless. Unfortunately her situation only worsens when outside supernatural forces become more difficult to contend with than TBK.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
Similar in 89%
Why? (2021)
Plot Summary:
Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Lizzie Borden's Revenge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of sorority girls are having a slumber party at their house. One of the new sorority girls is Leslie Borden, a descendant of the infamous Lizzie Borden family. They believe that they are holding a harmless séance to conjure the ghost of Lizzie. But they get locked in the house with an evil, vengeful spirit as Lizzie Borden returns to wreak havoc with her axe. One by one, the girls are murdered as they try to figure out how to put an end to the return of Lizzie Borden.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Psycho Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bloody, detective, cult classic, independent film, serious
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Death-Scort Service (2015)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada a group of local up and coming escorts become targets for murder! A deranged slasher is on the loose and out for revenge. From the studios that brought you Amerikan Holokaust and Die Die Delta comes a blood-soaked tale about prostitutes who fall victim to a mysterious slasher.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film