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Plot Summary:
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, christmas horror, psychological thriller, horror comedy
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Blind (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. When a masked stranger named Pretty Boy shows up, Faye will realize that she isn't as alone as she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, sad, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, crying
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Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comic retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, from Erik the Phantom's, twisted perspective.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 87%
Living Death (2006)
Plot Summary:
Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is having a steamy affair with his best friend. And when the lovers' risky plan to get rid of him backfires, Victor's relentless anger and terrifying rage sends him over the edge on a shockingly sadistic quest for total revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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The Fan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, bloody, horror comedy, serious
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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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Willard (2003)
Plot Summary:
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark comedy, disturbing, tense, cult classic, stylized
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Bloody Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the murders by herself, she finds that she may be the killer's next target when she gets too close to some dark secrets of the camp which may lead to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, splatter, teen horror, surprise ending
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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I Spill Your Guts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two friends Dennis and Joe join the military together. While on a routine mission, the two are quickly surrounded by enemy fire. When Joe stands up in the line of fire to run, Dennis pushes him out of the way and takes a bullet in the throat. Dennis wakes up in hospital to find Joe rewarded as a hero. Joe told a lie and took all the glory, and Dennis was left as a mute from the accident. Dennis can't talk, but actions speak louder then words. The two return home to N.Y. and now the war rages in the streets. Dennis wants revenge on Joe, so he will kill everyone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
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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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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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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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The Driller Killer (1979)
Plot Summary:
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, terrifying, bloody, controversial
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Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, retro, detective, period piece
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Sweeney Todd (2006)
Plot Summary:
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, enigmatic, stylized, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, gothic horror, psychological, tense
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The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Nightwatch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough, neo noir, detective, psychological thriller, surreal
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Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic
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Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious
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Craig (2008)
Plot Summary:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, slasher, detective, cult film
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The Ugly (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological horror, slasher, controversial, mindfuck
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Ghost Story (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, light, psychological, exciting, serious
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, rough, brutal, suspense, dark comedy, mockumentary
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He Never Died (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark, enigmatic, bleak, melancholic, bloody, humorous, harsh, splatter, stylized, intense