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Plot Summary:
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher horror
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The Manor (2018)
Plot Summary:
"The Manor," is the macabre tale of mental patient, Amy Hunter and the horrific events that follow her release from Psychiatrist, Dr. Tryvniak . Amy's mother, Jane feels it best to immerse her daughter in the warm, family atmosphere of Anders Manor, inviting Amy's long lost family to join them at the manor. The Manor, however, has deeper plans for the Hunter Family, as gatecrashers and cultists arrive as the nefarious and ancient demonic force, goes to work, in short order, to sew madness and reap blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Play Dead (2022)
Plot Summary:
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slasher horror
Similar in 88%
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 76%
Dark Spells (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of archeologists are determined to make digs on a ghost town to find an old book, ignoring that the town is cursed due to events occurred about seven hundred years ago. An evil spirit comes to haunt this team.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Bonesetter (2003)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years ago, an evil bonesetter was killed for his crimes against children. Now in the present a single mother and a shy librarian must discover who is behind a rash of child abductions, is the Bonesetter back to finish his depraved work?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing, dark, road movie
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I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
Plot Summary:
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter
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Killer Book Club (2023)
Plot Summary:
Eight horror-loving friends fight for their lives when a killer clown who seems to know the grim secret they share begins to pick them off, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree in a local park where many horrible acts occurred. The locals have given the tree the name Devils Tree because of its urban legends of mass murders, satanic rituals, and paranormal activity. She decides this is the perfect story to finish her thesis on. As Sam digs deeper into the realm of the tree, she begins to uncover the truth about these urban legends. Struggling with her own demons of her past, Samantha is confronted with a the true demon of the tree and now must expose the truth in hopes to set it free. In the end, Samantha founds the real reason why evil is so rooted at The Devils Tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, demonic, psychotronic
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Bloody Mary (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher, bleak, bloody
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House of Dust (2013)
Plot Summary:
College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a convicted serial killer from 1950.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
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Last Gasp (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican Indian spirit possesses a heartless real estate developer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Soul to Keep (2018)
Plot Summary:
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, splatter, queer horror, demonic
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Disturbed (1990)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Plot Summary:
After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Bad Dreams (1988)
Plot Summary:
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, creepy, cult classic, atmospheric, surprise ending, brutal
Similar in 88%
Devil's Whisper (2019)
Plot Summary:
Devil's Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it's a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, dark, suspenseful
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The Blazing World (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Greystone Park (2012)
Plot Summary:
In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers quickly discovered that they were not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary, grindhouse, independent film
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I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a California teen with an interest in the occult moves to a New England town, she finds that the town teens believe she is a witch sent to seek revenge on the descendants of the people who originally killed another witch a hundred years earlier. Things take a particularly deadly turn when they convince her to play a seer at a Halloween party where they will feed her information over an earphone about those who enter her tent, only she suddenly sees things beyond their knowledge or help.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Exorcism (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the city of angels - Los Angeles - no one is immune from the lurking spirits, neither good nor evil. As the end of time rapidly approaches, both forces have much work to do. Both sides contend for the same souls, but which force will prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: demonic, suspense
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Grace (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, stylized, scary, demonic, mockumentary, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, weird
Similar in 76%
Lavender (2016)
Plot Summary:
A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, twist ending, cerebral, spooky, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
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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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, perverse, surprise ending
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Nightlight (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five friends play a game in a "mysterious" forest with a long history as a beacon for troubled young people contemplating suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, slasher, teen horror, slasher horror, fake documentary
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Serpent's Lair (1995)
Plot Summary:
Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, sensual, independent film, surprise ending, twist ending
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Alone in the Dark (1982)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, grindhouse, creepy, classic horror
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Haunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, dark