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The Black String (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, mind bending, slasher
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The Ghost Beyond (2018)
Plot Summary:
A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Plot Summary:
The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, weird, cult film
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
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Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Lust for Vengeance (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five women obsessed with sex & drugs pay for their sins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective, grindhouse
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Rebound (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman finds the love of her life cheating on her, she has a mental break while travelling across country and encounters hostile strangers and debilitating anxiety along the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, rough, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary
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The Killer Is Still Among Us (1986)
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Forensic student Christina Marelli decide to write about a mysterious serial killer who kills couple in love. The killer shows up just when the little lovebirds sitting in their cars and have a cozy time. He shoots them to death and then uses her knife to mutilate women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, surprise ending, independent film
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Wicked, Wicked (1973)
Plot Summary:
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, psychological thriller, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, slasher horror, mad, psycho film
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Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, erotic, scary, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse
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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Plot Summary:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhile, Fran Ambrose is a radio talk show host who is discussing the topic of matricide with guest Dr. Richmond, Norman's former psychologist. The radio station receives a call from Norman, who uses the alias "Ed" to tell his story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, cult horror, bloody, suspense, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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The Silent Scream (1979)
Plot Summary:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, creepy
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Deadly Revisions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Night School (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychotronic, retro, bloody, detective, grindhouse
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Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, slasher, suspense, spooky, psychotronic, crime thriller
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Haunted House (1999)
Plot Summary:
Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, clever, psychological horror, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, experimental
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The French Sex Murders (1972)
Plot Summary:
The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after the suspect's ironic-if-he-were-actually-guilty demise, his suspicions are confirmed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, scary, atmospheric, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Midnight Killer (1986)
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Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder may have been committed by the so-called "Midnight Ripper". The only problem is that the Midnight Ripper has been dead for several years.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychotronic, slasher horror, creepy, awful
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Watch Me When I Kill (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pharmacist is murdered, and a woman happens to see the culprit leave the scene. She soon finds herself being stalked by the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, cult classic, tense, mind bending, serious
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The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, rough, serious, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized
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The Initiation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered illegally. Trapped in a new nightmare, Kelly must fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychological thriller, independent film
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Pieces (1982)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody
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The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Plot Summary:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, bloody, controversial, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. But as things spiral out of control and the body count rises, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, grindhouse, retro, dark, controversial
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The Prowler (1981)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, gothic horror
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Psycho III (1986)
Plot Summary:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, psychological thriller, cult horror, psychological, surprise ending, scary, atmospheric, serious
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The Den (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber, mockumentary, creepy, rough, psychological
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot Summary:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, brutal, splatter
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, slasher, grindhouse, tense, suspense, rough, erotic, surreal
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It Follows (2014)
Plot Summary:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, psychological horror, independent film, creepy