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Plot Summary:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, terrifying, independent film, sexual
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Similar in 83%
Stalked (1994)
Plot Summary:
Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after having instinctively rescued her little son Mikey from a traffic accident. When she doesn't return his love he snaps and begins to stalk her, eliminating all who stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
The Unseen (1980)
Plot Summary:
Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are booked for a holiday parade fair Jennifer is covering. But unknown to the women, some unseen "thing" has been living in the basement of the house for over 20 years and is looked after by Keller and his shy sister Virginia, in which the "thing" soon gets out and begins harassing and killing the women one by one in various violent, but seemingly accidental, means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, independent film, realistic, psychotronic, spooky
Similar in 82%
Hitcher in the Dark (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychological
Similar in 90%
Cupid (1997)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 81%
Beware: Children at Play (1989)
Plot Summary:
Parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back. After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult leader, they turn on their parents with gruesome results.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, psychological, controversial, spooky, terrifying, slasher, scary, rough, offbeat
Similar in 89%
Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 77%
Bikini Girls on Ice (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a bus-load of women's college soccer players get stranded on their way to a bikini car-wash fundraiser, they decide to set-up shop in front of an abandoned gas station on the edge of town. Little do they know the place is the stalking-grounds for a homicidal maniac mechanic named Moe.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, sexy, horror comedy, scary
Similar in 89%
Christina's House (2000)
Plot Summary:
The teenager Christina, her younger brother Bobby, and their father James Tarling moves to a rented house in a small town in Washington to be close to Christina's mother Joanne, who is interned in an asylum. The house is being repaired by Howie Rhodes and Christina has a boy friend, the bad boy Eddy Duncan. While in the house, Christina hears noises and has a permanent feeling that another person lives there, but her father believes it is the structure being settled. When two teenagers vanishes, the weird sheriff Mark Sklar visits the Tarling family, since the last place the teenagers were seen alive was nearby their home. When a dead body is found in a river close to the house, the sheriff investigates the place, trying to find the guilty for the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, teen, serious, surprise ending, independent film, teen horror
Similar in 76%
Slink (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the rural town of Wickenhaven, a psychotic tanning salon owner is responsible for the disappearances of many young, innocent girls, while his wife, an exotic purse designer, is willing to overlook his evil nature.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, slasher
Similar in 76%
The Neighbor (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
The Landlady (1998)
Plot Summary:
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, scary, slasher, independent film, detective, tension, suspense
Similar in 87%
A Demon in My View (1991)
Plot Summary:
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 77%
Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective bachelor/bachelorette parties. Ryan's best man Chet books a remote cabin in the woods to throw them a 'Jack and Jill' stag that they'll never forget. Out in the middle of nowhere, things take a horrifying turn as members of the group are brutally picked off one by one. What started out as a celebration quickly descends into a bloody nightmare. Friendships are ripped apart and accusations fly in this blood filled psychological horror with a whodunit twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, realistic
Similar in 89%
Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani's jaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspense, disturbing, controversial, offbeat
Similar in 85%
Acacia (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense
Similar in 76%
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
Plot Summary:
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they carry out their plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, rough, offbeat
Similar in 88%
The Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 87%
The Devil's Ground (2009)
Plot Summary:
While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with blood on her face. She gives a lift to the girl and listens to the tale of her passenger and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 86%
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1991)
Plot Summary:
Carrying on the Prom Night tradition, this film begins back at Hamilton High School on Prom Night in 1957. As a young couple are enjoying a romantic moment together in the back seat of a car, they are interrupted by Father Jonas, a priest who slashes and immolates the lovers. Thirty years later, Jonas gets loose from the chapel basement where the church fathers had been secretly keeping him locked up and drugged. As luck would have it, it's prom night again, and group of four students have unfortunately chosen Jonas's hideout as their secluded getaway spot.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, dark, cult horror, teen horror
Similar in 79%
Mikey (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died of mysterious "accidents" that weren't really accidents at all. Mikey is a cold blooded killer, and it doesn't take long for him to aim his sights on his new adoptive family and anyone else who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, grindhouse
Similar in 84%
Daddy's Girl (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, terrifying, independent film, mind bending, slasher
Similar in 81%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 75%
Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
Similar in 78%
Relative Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective, mystical, terrifying, independent film, mind bending
Similar in 79%
Bloody Birthday (1981)
Plot Summary:
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, rough, bleak, serious, bloody, slasher horror
Similar in 78%
San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
Similar in 82%
Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
Similar in 75%
Shiver (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, realistic, slasher, psychological, bloody, independent film, serious
Similar in 76%
Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher