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Plot Summary:
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
Best tv shows and movies like The Initiation of Sarah (1978):
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The Spell (1977)
Plot Summary:
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
Stranger in Our House (1978)
Plot Summary:
A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no good. This TV horror movie had the title "Stranger in Our House" when it was originally released by NBC on Halloween night in 1978. When released on VHS in the late 1980s, the title was changed to "Summer of Fear", which is the title of the Lois Duncan book on which it is based.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, satanic, spooky, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
The Source (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, teen horror
Similar in 76%
Blood Legend (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find neither are really what she expected. The resurrected lover is not exactly the beautiful woman her uncle talked of in years past and the rewards her uncle had in mind for her are not made of a princes' fairy tales. The young witch finds the real truth of the "Blood Lengend".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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The Sisterhood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christine (Jennifer Holland) and Reagan (Kate Plec) are a pair of young women who get to know each other when they end up sharing a dorm room in college. Christine is a studious type who is still getting over a family tragedy, while Reagan never lets her classes get in the way of a good time. Convinced Christine needs to get out more, Reagan persuades her to tag along as she attends a wild party at the Beta Alpha Tau sorority house. Both Christine and Reagan are impressed with the BAT house, and in particular, chapter president Devin (Michelle Borth), and they are soon invited to join. However, Ms. Masters (Barbara Crampton), who teaches a class on the paranormal, believes that the BAT house is the center of supernatural activity on campus, and urges Christine to inform her of the goings-on at the house. It isn't long before Christine finds out that Ms. Masters' fears were based in fact, but can she tear herself away from the decadent pleasures sorority life has brought to her?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, gothic, slasher, independent film
Similar in 79%
Voodoo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Andy comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, slasher, cult film
Similar in 83%
The Initiation of Sarah (2006)
Plot Summary:
A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, rough, captivating, gothic, suspense, satanic
Similar in 87%
The Witch Files (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
Similar in 81%
5ive Girls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, queer horror, serious
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American Poltergeist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends move into a vacation home with a sinister past in Fall River, Massachusetts. Suspicious of the home's owner, Taryn feels a strong connection to the house and finds herself at the center of one of the most deadly poltergeists in American history.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, suspense
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House of Purgatory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their secrets and one by one uses them against the teens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, teen horror, slasher
Similar in 89%
Dark Image (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Baphomet (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Detention (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
Similar in 85%
Blood Sisters (1987)
Plot Summary:
In 1974, a little boy tries to talk a little girl into getting naked for him, which she refuses and calls him a pervert. He then runs home, which happens to be a brothel where several (extremely unattractive) hookers and their johns roam around in the bedrooms. The little boy comes into one room to find his mother with her john, to which he reacts by blasting them both dead with a shotgun. Thirteen years later, a woman named Linda is taking the new pledges for her sorority to the now empty brothel for a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt in the empty house is to test their maturity and courage, so if they finish the scavenger hunt without chickening out they can be part of the sorority. Once night falls the girls begin seeing apparitions of the dead hookers, and eventually the girls begin getting killed one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, scary, rough, serious, splatter, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 90%
Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Evil Takes Root (2020)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Long Time Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, bloody
Similar in 89%
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for the road and plants them in the courtyard of an abandoned warehouse, bringing "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" to the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 75%
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 87%
The Cry (2007)
Plot Summary:
In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican witch Gloria, the woman advises that a powerful evil force is chasing the reincarnation of her son and drowning the other children to bring pain to their mothers.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic, hispanic
Similar in 77%
Dark Intruder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, suspense, detective, grindhouse, action thriller, weird
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Little Witches (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of black magic spells for conjuring up an ancient demon from the pits of Hell. Janie, the most characteristic and cruelest of the girls, takes charge of the group and plots to resurrect the demon using a series of black arts spells, while one innocent girl, Faith, has a change of heart and tries to stop them from completing their spell which also includes a human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, bleak, suspense, scary, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, sex comedy, corny
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The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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After Midnight (1989)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, psychological, mind bending, creepy, dark fairy tale, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Seconds Apart (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of control as their classmates die in twisted and bizarre ways. Jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading up to a horrific battle against themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark, psychological, clever, twist ending, spooky
Similar in 81%
Survival Island (2002)
Plot Summary:
Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mythical, independent film, fast, psychotronic, slasher