Best movies like The Night They Knocked
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Plot Summary:
During their last weekend together, a group of friends staying at a reclusive mountain house have their fun suddenly interrupted by a knock at the door.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Echoes (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young writer experiences visions during episodes of sleep paralysis, and she retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated house in the desert. As the visions worsen, she teeters on the edge of insanity as she uncovers a life-threatening secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, psychological thriller
Similar in 89%
Hellions (2015)
Plot Summary:
A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, brutal, absurd, psychological, psychotronic, psychedelic
Similar in 87%
American Gothic (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Demented (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, crying, independent film
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Smiley Face Killers (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a strange wave of mysterious drownings of male college students plagues the California coast, Jake struggles to keep his life together at school. Finding himself stalked by a hooded figure driving an unmarked van, Jake fears he may become the next victim in the killer's horrific spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Blackout Experiment (2021)
Plot Summary:
Six strangers wake up in a room full of weapons. If they do not kill each other, someone they care about will die.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, experimental, disturbing, psychotronic
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We Are Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, retro, suspense
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Intruders (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological, dark, intense, bloody, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, slasher
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Fender Bender (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to — a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, dark drama, hispanic, retro, crying
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The Final (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, serious, realistic, slasher, depressing, entertaining
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The Dawn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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The Thompsons (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, psychological, gothic, dark
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Lady in a Cage (1964)
Plot Summary:
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, retro, slasher
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Dread (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, surprise ending, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, slasher
Similar in 75%
Mother's Day (2010)
Plot Summary:
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, rough, serious, splatter, captivating, suspense, depressing
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Clownface (2019)
Plot Summary:
A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Raccoon Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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31 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disturbing, rough, brutal, splatter, grindhouse, slasher, scary, psychological, retro
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Craig (2008)
Plot Summary:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, slasher, detective, cult film
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He's Out There (2018)
Plot Summary:
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, dark, bloody, spooky, slasher horror
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Victimized (2014)
Plot Summary:
Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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The Rental (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller, clever, dark, mumblecore, disturbing
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The Purge (2013)
Plot Summary:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, psychological, twist ending, brutal, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, slasher
Similar in 78%
Vacancy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, creepy, tense
Similar in 86%
The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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Terrifier (2016)
Plot Summary:
A maniacal clown named Art, terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, brutal, bloody, dark
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Hush (2016)
Plot Summary:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, psychological, tense, disturbing, twist ending, psychological thriller
Similar in 79%
You're Next (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, rough, disturbing, intense, dark comedy
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The Strangers (2008)
Plot Summary:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, rough, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy