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Plot Summary:
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios (really MGM) has hit hard times and is forced to sell it's back lot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Nightmare in Wax (1969)
Plot Summary:
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 77%
Cauldron of Blood (1968)
Plot Summary:
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse
Similar in 89%
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative, scary, dark, historical drama
Similar in 78%
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before it, or the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
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Hollywood 90028 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes through life detached, alone, and unable to control his psychotic desire to kill the things he loves most. Employed as a cameraman in a seedy porno operation, he spends his days separated from the shame and degradation by the camera he uses to record it. When he is confronted with the reality of an actual sexual encounter, without his camera for protection, he invariably strangles his partner during the lovemaking process. But then he meets a girl...and the nightmare begins!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Red Nights (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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The Horseplayer (1990)
Plot Summary:
A blonde (Sammi Davis) seduces a quirky liquor-store worker (Brad Dourif) as inspiration for her artist boyfriend (M.K. Harris).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Honeyspider (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween day in 1989 and college student Jackie Blue wants to enjoy a quiet birthday in the midst of a chaotic semester at school. Her friend Amber has other ideas and persuades Jackie to come to the annual Halloween party on campus after her shift at the local movie theater. As the night unfolds, it becomes apparent that Jackie will get more excitement than she bargained for on her birthday this year.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Special Effects (1984)
Plot Summary:
Reality and illusion collide in this thriller about a megalomaniacal movie director who murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the dead woman's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the part of the dead actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, independent film
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The Boom Boom Girls of Wrestling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Six female athletic actresses who gets cast for being superhero's on a wrestling show. After hard training and ups and down's in the gym, the fresh wrestlers board the bus to their first fight in Las VegasS. The bus get stuck in the middle of nowhere, and the girls end up in a Ghost town together. They must survive and discover the truth behind the Ghost town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, queer horror, independent film
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Dead Boyz Can't Fly (1992)
Plot Summary:
Buzz shows his artwork to Norman at the employment agency. Norman laughs in his face. Buzz takes this personally and later returns to the office building with his friends Goose and Jo Jo. They systematically terrorize the people in different offices on the 13th floor, with only a few grizzled Vietnam veterans and a suicidal lawyer to try and stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The End of Violence (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, surreal, stylized, suspenseful, psychological, deep, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Backroad (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man with a dark past hitches a ride that turns into a road trip to hell and leads him to the revelation of a family secret of biblical proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, extreme horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
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Blind (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. When a masked stranger named Pretty Boy shows up, Faye will realize that she isn't as alone as she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, sad, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, crying
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Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986)
Plot Summary:
August 31, 1986: Dangerously unhinged serial killer Johnathan Glick gets released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. Three days after his release Johnathan arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Naturally, Johnathan decides to embark on another murderous rampage that came to be known as "The Glitter Gulch Holocaust".
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 76%
Starlet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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The Devil's Muse (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, gothic, mind bending, serious, realistic, experimental, art house, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comic retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, from Erik the Phantom's, twisted perspective.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lucid (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 75%
House of Forbidden Secrets (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Hunt has had some very bad breaks in life. His wife left him, his friends have all abandoned him, and his children barely see him! Jacob has been given an amazing gift and the chance he needs to get back on his feet and start anew. Jacob has landed the job of overnight security officer at the old ShadowView Manor. It has now been turned into a commercial office and retail building. Jacob is about to learn nights around the old Manor contains many secrets. A dark past that is breaking through the boundaries of time, leaking into this dimension. As luck would have it, Jacob's first night on the job is the anniversary of a dark tragedy that has stained the building.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, satanic
Similar in 77%
Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Quarries (2016)
Plot Summary:
To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, forcing each one to discover the strength within themselves that they didn't even know they possessed. While being brazenly chased by a pack of predators, the strong quickly set themselves apart from the weak. In a battle of will, stamina, and heart, these very virtues present themselves at the most crucial moment. With death looming, each is left with what is truly important - the strength within oneself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, slasher
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Plot Summary:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, satanic, controversial, grindhouse, anamorphic, cult classic
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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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Rift (2011)
Plot Summary:
Several college students are brutally murdered in a small college town an the killer is still on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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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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Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious, surreal, psychological thriller, art house, dark, slasher