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Plot Summary:
Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, hood, gay cinema, weird
Best tv shows and movies like The Ghastly Ones (1968):
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Legacy of Blood (1978)
Plot Summary:
Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs are dispatched by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
Similar in 85%
Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, gothic horror, disturbing, southern gothic, terrifying, independent film, detective, cult film
Similar in 89%
Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of the tribe, they are cursed to an eternity of old age with no chance to ever die. Now, in present day Los Angeles, their only hope to recapture eternal youth is the ritualistic sacrifice of a 16-year-old female virgin. Their existence is discovered by an investigative reporter and a young runaway child and this leads to an unexplained and terrifying confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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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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Absurd (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man has been driven insane by church-sanctioned scientific experimentation which also causes him to be nearly impossible to kill. He is pursued to America by a priest where he embarks upon a killing spree while the priest tries to hunt him down and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, bloody, controversial, suspense, disturbing, religious horror, terrifying, scary, rough
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Unhinged (1982)
Plot Summary:
College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm...only to crash their car, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid they come across a house occupied by a man-hating mother and her 'daughter'...our trio soon wish they hadn't.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, retro, bloody, twist ending, controversial, grindhouse
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Three on a Meathook (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love, the father worries about a repeat performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult horror, independent film, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Seeds (1968)
Plot Summary:
An angry, alcoholic matriarch tyrannizes her spoiled, grown-up children during an unwanted family get-together, where someone begins killing them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, sexy, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, sexploitation film
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Snuff (1975)
Plot Summary:
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, suspenseful, scary, sensual, suspense, perverse, terrifying
Similar in 89%
Bloodeaters (1980)
Plot Summary:
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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Red to Kill (1994)
Plot Summary:
Insane film from the master Billy Tang. A deranged man stalks and kills women that wear red. A young, mentally challenged woman is admitted into a group home that the deranged man happens to run. One day, she happens to wear a red dress for a dance recital that her social worker puts on. The nut sees her wearing red and that's when the fun really begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, slasher, erotic, extreme horror, sinister, splatter, crying, cult film
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The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, surreal
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The House with 100 Eyes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ed and Susan might seem to be a normal, suburban American couple, but they’ve got a horrifying secret: They create and sell snuff films in their inescapable deathtrap of a home. When Ed decides to create the world’s first ‘triple feature’ – three victims, all killed in one night – the cameras hidden throughout the house capture the evening’s terrible events. As their victims suffer their gruesome fates, Ed and Susan’s relationship begins to unravel, causing their carefully laid plans to spiral into bloody chaos that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, rough, sadistic, controversial, dark comedy
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The Orphan Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister Audrey what it means to have family loyalty. His lessons are taught in massive doses of vulgar and unimaginable pain. Throughout her brutal torture we learn that Marcus is not the only Miller with Killer in the bloodline as Audrey proves to be a formidable adversary.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 79%
Don't Go in the House (1979)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, retro, bloody, gothic horror
Similar in 79%
The Undertaker (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, perverse, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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I Drink Your Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. After raping a local girl, her grandpa goes after them, only to be beaten and forced to take LSD. His grandson then plots revenge on the satanists by feeding them meat pies infected with blood from a rabid dog. They turn into crazed lunatics and begin killing and/or infecting everything in their path.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, satanic, controversial, slasher horror, cult classic, pastoral, terrifying, independent film
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Plot Summary:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, scary, bloody, disturbing, southern gothic, rough, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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August Underground's Penance (2007)
Plot Summary:
"August Underground's Penance" is basically the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on murder spree.Again two nameless butchers played by Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles videotape their bloodthirsty madness,but "Penance" shows also their slow decline.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, disturbing, controversial, brutal, bloody, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, perverse, frightening
Similar in 81%
Nightmare (1981)
Plot Summary:
A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares escapes from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, bloody, grindhouse, retro, gothic, gothic horror, controversial, cult classic
Similar in 81%
Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
Similar in 83%
Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
Similar in 80%
Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, erotic, suspense, dark, bloody
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 86%
Halloween II (1981)
Plot Summary:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, slasher horror, tense, creepy, cult classic
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Plot Summary:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody, psychotronic, gothic, rough, lovecraft, controversial
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, brutal, sexy, bloody, disgusting
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August Underground (2001)
Plot Summary:
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, suspense, controversial, mockumentary, rough, bloody, slasher, disgusting, splatter
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Halloween (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, suspense, creepy, stylized, rough
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The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, splatter, intense