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Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
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Death Spa (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, dark, spooky, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Plot Summary:
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, surprise ending, bloody, detective, independent film, psychological, suspense, controversial, splatter
Similar in 82%
The Dark Power (1985)
Plot Summary:
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild
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The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mindfuck, independent film, slasher, slasher horror, awful
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Blood & Sex Nightmare (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lascivious boyfriend takes his virginal girlfriend to an adult retreat for a passionate weekend unaware of the camp-ground's history of murder and rape.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic, scary, serious, suspenseful, sexy, disturbing, slasher, controversial, realistic, sexual
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Death on Demand (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, queer horror, realistic
Similar in 86%
The Dead Pit (1989)
Plot Summary:
A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, retro, atmospheric, medical horror, creepy, cult classic, surprise ending, scary, rough
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Seed (2006)
Plot Summary:
After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, serious, suspense, twisted, psychological, bloody, controversial, splatter
Similar in 80%
Evilspeak (1981)
Plot Summary:
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, demonic, homoerotic, cult classic, terrifying
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976-Evil II (1991)
Plot Summary:
After being bestowed with demonic powers following a phone call to Hell, a psychotic teacher begins a rampage of death and destruction in a small town, forcing a teen and her boyfriend to fight him off so that they can get away.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, independent film, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird, cult film
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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Severed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, suspense, independent film
Similar in 79%
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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The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 81%
Basement Jack (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, low-budget
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Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Plot Summary:
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) decided to make an appearance. Dead bodies are piling up, and Mary seems to be calling the shots. But there are secrets about her past that have yet to be uncovered. Nate Dushku co-stars in this slasher flick.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, teen horror, independent film
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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
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Trailer Park of Terror (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Imperium Comics series, Trailer Park of Terror. Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, scary, offbeat, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, bleak
Similar in 78%
The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
Similar in 86%
Girls School Screamers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, slasher horror
Similar in 80%
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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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 83%
Jack-O (1995)
Plot Summary:
A long long time ago a wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on the townsfolk that did him in, particularly Arthur Kelly's family. Arthur had done the final graces on him when he came back to life as Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man. The Kellys proliferated through the years, and when some devil-may-care teens accidentally unleash Jack-O, young Sean Kelly must stop him somehow as his suburban world is accosted and the attrition rate climbs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror, campy
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Plot Summary:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, spooky, independent film
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
Similar in 83%
Zombie Nation (2004)
Plot Summary:
A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective