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Plot Summary:
An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman's house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator's daughter is soon possessed by the genie and invites her friends to spend the night at the museum, along with some uninvited guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, weird, eighties
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Death Spa (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, dark, spooky, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Unnamable (1988)
Plot Summary:
Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead to 1998, and some college students have heard the story about the unnamable and want to check out the vault.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, slasher, independent film, retro, splatter, mystic, semi serious, spooky, weird, eighties
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Sweatshop (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends break into an abandoned factory in order to throw a impromptu party; unaware that it is not as empty as they originally believed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, disturbing, independent film, splatter, black comedy
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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Death by Dialogue (1988)
Plot Summary:
A guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set. Pretty soon people start being killed in the manner they are in the script of the movie being filmed next door.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, detective
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Born (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty one year old virgin, and wakes up the next morning pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill, for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth's dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child's deadly evil cravings.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mystic, serious, surprise ending, dark, twist ending, slasher
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Demon Wind (1990)
Plot Summary:
We are introduced to 1931. A body is being burned on a cross, a woman named Regina is at a farm, and attempting to barricade a door, from where beyond, demons try to enter. Her husband George transforms into a demon instead and kills her.Sixty-years-later, after the suicide of his father, a young man named cory, the grandson of Regina and George, and his girlfriend Elaine, along with a group of ther friends, travel up to the farm, where the events took place sixty years before, so that Cory can figure out what happened to his grandparents. They sooon come under attack by a band of vicious demons and when the kids try to escape a mysteirous fog brings them back to the farm. The only good thing is that they are protected by a shield that prevents the demons from entering the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, demonic, creepy, cult horror, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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FleshEater (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, awful
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976-Evil II (1991)
Plot Summary:
After being bestowed with demonic powers following a phone call to Hell, a psychotic teacher begins a rampage of death and destruction in a small town, forcing a teen and her boyfriend to fight him off so that they can get away.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, independent film, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird, cult film
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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Witchouse (1999)
Plot Summary:
On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky, slasher, independent film, serious, gay cinema
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Wishcraft (2002)
Plot Summary:
Life is about to change for Brett Bumpers, Martin Van Buren High School's resident brain. Socially inept and head over heels in love with Samantha the school beauty. Brett receives a mysterious package, a talisman, and the power to make three wishes. Brett makes his first wish - for Samantha to be his date at the school dance, then makes a second wish for Samantha to fall in love with him. But evil forces have been awakened by the use of dark magic. A sinister force appears and methodically and viciously begins to torture and mutilate members of the senior class... with its final and ultimate target the destruction and death of Samantha. Now Brett needs to protect the woman he loves but can only do so by using his last wish turning the dark power of the sinister force upon himself!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, dark, independent film, slasher horror
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The Club (1994)
Plot Summary:
Time stops at midnight at the Senior Prom for five students, one murderous counselor, and John. They must find the courage to face themselves or, when time starts again, they may find that they are joining John's Club. All you have to do is commit murder... or suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends unleash a demonic Pirate from a treasure chest.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, semi serious, mockbuster, offbeat, surprise ending, splatter
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
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Wicked Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, dark, scary, rough
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Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Plot Summary:
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) decided to make an appearance. Dead bodies are piling up, and Mary seems to be calling the shots. But there are secrets about her past that have yet to be uncovered. Nate Dushku co-stars in this slasher flick.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, teen horror, independent film
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The Horror Show (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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The Beast Within (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the beginning of the movie you see a woman getting raped by a man-creature of some sort. The movie takes place years later when the child that was a result of that rape is on the rampage looking for a girl to rape to start the process all over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, retro, cult classic, classic horror, terrifying, grindhouse
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It Waits (2005)
Plot Summary:
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, splatter, psychotronic, corny
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Plot Summary:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, spooky, independent film
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Venom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Venom is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars. Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana - Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), Jonathan Jackson (Tuck Everlasting) and Meagan Good (Roll Bounce) are among a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they find is an evil force more deadly than anyone could have imagined ... now they are running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, rough, exciting, bloody, grindhouse, teen horror, anime, southern gothic
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological