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Plot Summary:
The neurotic and newlywed Barbara (Robin Strasser) finds her husband (Arthur Roberts) in bed with his old flame Eva (Iva Jean Saraceni). Robin doesn't get mad-she gets even. Using funds supplied by her wealthy daddy John Beal, the scorned bride turns Roberts and Saraceni's love nest into a dungeon of horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, odd
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Mirrors (1978)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple check into an old hotel, and soon the wife finds herself having hallucinations and wandering the halls aimlessly. It seems a voodoo priestess has placed a curse on her in order to steal her soul. A mysterious doctor attempts to help her, but the couple has their suspicions about him also.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: creepy, independent film
Similar in 78%
Honeymoon From Hell (2016)
Plot Summary:
When young newlyweds Julia and Rivers find themselves trapped in a quaint, Carolina coastal bed and breakfast with fellow stragglers during a dangerous hurricane, they soon begin to suspect they are being haunted by the legendary ghost of Alice Flagg.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sexy
Similar in 82%
Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)
Plot Summary:
A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Perfect Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Psychic Killer (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, suspense, sexploitation film
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Impulse (1974)
Plot Summary:
A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film
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An Eye for an Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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Ditch Day Massacre (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, detective
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End Trip (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a calm night in an average city a hardworking URYDE driver, Brandon, picks up just another fare, Judd. Using interactions that blur the lines between the technological world and the physical one, Judd explains a messy breakup. Brandon offers an empathetic ear and a sympathetic heart to his new friend to help him pick up the pieces. Aggregated profiles, algorithms, links, likes and comments bring people closer. But how close is too close?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
Meg Alexander and her groom to be Derrick Logan prepare for their wedding day, but as their big day gets closer, paranormal activities soon start when Meg brings her dead mother's wedding dress into their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Re-Cut (2010)
Plot Summary:
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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A Place in Hell (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a real serial killer: A disgraced detective on the trail of a serial killer and a group of student filmmakers cross paths at a Halloween fright farm in the dead of winter.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Survival Knife (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even worse than the man who scarred her forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Evil Deeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Thief encounters a strange old Hermit who tells him tales of Evil Deeds - including a Detective's search for a escaped mental patient, a tale of young lady and her new beau who arrange to have her abusive father killed and the body disposed of - unfortunately he doesn't stay dead, and a babysitter is tormented by phone calls from a demented man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Evil Never Dies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful
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Honeymoon Horror (1982)
Plot Summary:
Imagine every newlywed's fantasy, a rustic secluded lover's paradise- Honeymoon Island. What starts as a weekend of love, turns into a nightmare of blood and terror for three young innocent couples. What lurks in the shadows of Honeymoon Lodge? Is it the caretaker, or perhaps something more fiendish and deadly? Honeymoon Island, where newlyweds joined in holy matrimony spend their wedding night screaming in terror!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse
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Dead on Site (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dead On Site is the story of a group of media arts majors who decide as a final project to take over a vacant house where a family had been wiped out a year before. They plan to re-enact the murders and web-cast them on a site while they search for clues to the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, independent film
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Murder in Law (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man's mother comes from Louisiana to live with her son in San Francisco. What her son doesn't know is that Mom was confined to a mental hospital in Louisiana, and she murdered an orderly to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 84%
Bloodshed (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers live alone in a shack in the woods, trying to overcome their abusive past. But when a girl is killed nearby, fearing retribution from the townspeople, they cover up her death, kidnap the only witness and embark on a murderous journey.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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A.M.I. (2019)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen year old girl forms a co-dependent relationship with an artificial intelligence on her phone and goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
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The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A brutal serial killer is finally gunned down in the middle of carrying out one last heinous act of bloody murder. In the maniac’s possession, a box of Guatemalan talismans, which mistakenly end up being sold as charm jewelry in Chloe’s Collectables thrift shop. Soon those who bought the Worry Dolls begin to act strangely out of character and cause another rash of senseless slaughter. An ancient curse is consuming the city and pits a hardened detective against the clock to save his 8 year-old daughter’s life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychotronic, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, spooky
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Bloody Ballet (2018)
Plot Summary:
When beautiful ballerina dancer Adriana Mena lands the lead role in the upcoming Nutcracker performance, she's forced to face her demons as jealousy and tension begin to provoke the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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The Retreat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, queer horror, slasher horror, queer cinema
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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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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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Kruel (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Kruel' - is a horror/thriller feature length movie about a psychotic killer who masquerades as an ice cream man in order to get closer to the objects of his affection.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller