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Plot Summary:
Born in the New Jersey public housing, the young Johnny Jones (Robert Crayton) in his life has known only abuse and poverty. Pushed over the edge, Johnny Jones suffers a mental breakdown and ignites a killing spree never seen in history, leaving a trail of death and carnage everywhere he goes. While the tensions and the murders only get worse, the city calls Detective Cutchin (Tom Sizemore) to solve the case and bring Johnny Jones to justice.
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Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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Plot tags: slasher, detective
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Amityville Uprising (2022)
Plot Summary:
A chemical blast at a military base sets off a supernatural disaster. As Sgt. Dash tries to keep the peace at the local police station, the explosion unleashes a toxic acid rain that dissolves the flesh of anyone trapped in it. Even worse, it causes the dead to rise again and attack the living. Can Dash and fellow officer Nina Rossi figure out who is friend and foe, fend off the attacks, and defend their colleagues until the savage cataclysm subsides?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective
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Ferocious Wolf (2023)
Plot Summary:
A detective on trail of a suspected child killer, was arrested for the crime, but was allowed to walk free after a clerical error. The detective enlists the mother of the murdered child to exact a justice the legal system can't provide.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Uruguay, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective
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Unfinished (2022)
Plot Summary:
Writer Zora Matthews is the daughter of famous author Thomas Morgan Matthews who died a year ago. Both Zora and Thomas suffer from schizophrenia. After a fight with husband Drew, Zora escapes to her father's hideaway house in beautiful Topanga Canyon. There Zora is introduced to bartender Eddie, his wife Lorena, and handyman Amadi. They all talk cryptically about how Zora's father changed their world. The stress triggers Zora's schizophrenia, and her dreams become horrific as she slowly discovers that her father's past included grisly murder and suicide, and the ghosts of his actions are back to haunt her and drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Fear the Night (2023)
Plot Summary:
During a bachelorette party in a secluded California farmhouse, masked intruders launch a brutal attack, forcing eight women to fight for survival. Led by Tess, a troubled military veteran, they unite to defend themselves throughout a harrowing night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Terror on Alcatraz (1987)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Bring It On: Cheer Or Die (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a cheer squad practices their routines on Halloween weekend in an abandoned school, they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Mirage (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three couples set off to spend some time in the desert. At first all is well and they all have a lot of fun (if you know what I mean!). Watching their fun is a mysterious stranger in a pickup truck, who has plans for some fun of his own that the youngsters aren't going to appreciate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, twist ending, demonic, independent film
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Death of the Jackal (1984)
Plot Summary:
A psycho-killer is on the loose targeting only young women. Grisly deaths pile up, one after another. The real problem is not finding out who he is, but instead, how to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, splatter, slasher horror
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The Inherited (2009)
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When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. Between incest and murder lies his future, if he can survive long enough to embrace his destiny. The old adage proves true. Nothing in life is free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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The Burning Dead (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff must rescue an estranged family from the impending eruption of a volcano, at the same time fighting off a horde of lava-filled zombies brought to life by the cursed mountains.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, detective, cliffhanger
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Byomkesh (2014)
Plot Summary:
Byomkesh was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Zero Boys (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, spooky, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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Zipperface (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Ryder is a young policewoman recently promoted to detective when she has her first case in tracking down and identifying a serial killer in her small California town.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, independent film
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Day of the Ax (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective
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The Third Saturday in October (2022)
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A lost slasher film from the golden age of the slasher genre. October 1979, Ricky Dean Logan is a man on a mission. Years ago, he lost a child at the hands of a psychopathic killer named Jakkariah Harding. When Harding escapes Death Row, Ricky Dean throws himself into the line of fire to stop him from killing again as Harding preys upon a group of friends gathered to watch a college football game.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Wild Hunt (2016)
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Five friends reunite for a camping trip when things start to go awry. Soon, they are hunted by wild beasts and have to fight to survive.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Slumber Party Slaughter Party 2 (2023)
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Four years after a series of brutal murders took place, a psychotic killer returns to wreak havoc.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Exit to Hell (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of stick-up kids rob a mafia run strip club and head for the border but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold! Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with a true appetite for justice! The film co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grind-House cinema. Horror Legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) is Sheriff Slade Sickle, and when a group of stick up kids arrive in his town, they find that justice is a dish best served cold. Expect buckets of blood, bullets and mayhem in this tribute to American Grindhouse. - Written by Anonymous (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, exciting, humorous, grindhouse
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Are You Scared 2 (2009)
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Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two psychopaths controlled by the sick owner of an underground site that is filming their movements and they have to fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, rough, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
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The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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Hayride 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The end of one journey only marks the beginning of another as Detective Loomis returns to uncover the truth behind the Legend of Pitchfork.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film, psychotronic
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Hell's Highway (2003)
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Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off anyone who is foolish enough to stray into their deadly territory.Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak, road movie, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, awful
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
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Coffin Baby (2013)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young woman is kidnapped, held captive and forced to endure the evils of one of the most violent homicidal maniacs in the city's history. "The Toolbox Killer" aka TBK. It is by her will, strength and her faith that she must survive, the ordeal. Her escape is almost hopeless. Unfortunately her situation only worsens when outside supernatural forces become more difficult to contend with than TBK.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
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Methodic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Methodic tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman". Forced to obey his dark half, the boy ultimately murders his parents on his birthday and is sentenced to a life under a microscope at the state mental hospital. But evil cannot be contained so easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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See No Evil 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, splatter, bloody, independent film
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Grindhouse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, suspense, tense, exciting, dark comedy, brutal, bloody, entertaining, surreal