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Plot Summary:
The eighteen years old Corey Peterson moves with his mother to a small town due a trauma in the past. On his first day at Hallows End High School, he is approached by the student also new arrival in town Mason that tells him about a death of a friend of him in the school and advises Corey to stay away from the wrestler Perry and his gang. When two other students vanish, Corey decides to talk to Principal Rizcheck, who does not give any attention to him. Together with Mason, they investigate the secret about the school and disclose the dark truth about Hallows End and the missing students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, independent film, scary, surprise ending, gay cinema
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KM 31: Kilometer 31 (2006)
Plot Summary:
While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and hears her whispering for help. Together with her boyfriend Nuno and Agata's mate Omar, they return to the km 31 of the road, and find out that the place is surrounded by supernatural accidents caused by the ghost of a mother that lost her boy many years ago. Further, Catalina discloses that the spirit of Agata is trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, splatter, psychotronic, lovecraft, post modern
Similar in 79%
The Source (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, teen horror
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Killer Instinct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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Voodoo Academy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young Christopher has just enrolled at the prestigious Carmichael Bible College, managed by the somewhat unusual Mrs. Bouvier. After some unexplained disappearances, Christopher does some exploring and discovers that Mrs. Bouvier and the Reverend Carmichael have some very unwholesome intentions for the young men of their school. Will Christopher graduate with his body and soul intact?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, captivating, suspense, independent film, offbeat, gay cinema
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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
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Detention (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
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Trespassers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. Colin gathers 4 friends and leaves for Mexico but is surprised that nor his brother nor his brother's friends are there. They start realizing that there's something wrong with the beach, a curse that says that no one will leave the beach alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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A Blood Pledge (2009)
Plot Summary:
Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un finds out that on the night of the incident, Soy, Eugene, Eun-young, Unjoo, the four of them had tried to commit a joint suicide after making a vow on blood. But the three are still alive, and only Unjoo had died. the desire, jealousy, and lies behind the pledge of death between the four girls are revealed, along with the hidden truth behind Unjoo’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Under the Salt (2008)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, twisted, serious
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From Within (2008)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, demonic, psychological horror, religious horror, psychological, mind bending
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
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Needle (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, bloody, demonic, independent film
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Long Time Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, bloody
Similar in 83%
Fingerprints (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher
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Somebody Help Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, slasher horror
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Hangman's Curse (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, slasher, independent film, scary, tense, serious, surprise ending
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A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013)
Plot Summary:
A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find the killer is very close to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, scenic
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Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
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Playback (2012)
Plot Summary:
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, interesting
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Forget Me Not (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, mind twisting, suspense, dark, mind bending, creepy
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
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Graduation Day (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious
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The Gallows Act II (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Ana Rue transfers to a prestigious new acting school, she encounters a malevolent spirit after participating in a viral challenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, teen horror, slasher horror
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Grudge 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surreal, stylized, psychological, serious, creepy
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Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
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My Soul to Take (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, grindhouse, horror comedy