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Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
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The Mad Executioners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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La alacrana (1986)
Plot Summary:
Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror
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A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spaghetti western, slasher horror, wild
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The Corpse Packs His Bags (1972)
Plot Summary:
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 79%
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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The Sinister Monk (1965)
Plot Summary:
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Hatchetman (2003)
Plot Summary:
Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Wicked Games (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective Gary discovers that his wife is having an affair. Despondent, he drinks and discusses his problem with friend Dan, a police detective. When someone in a copper mask begins slaughtering people connected to Gary's life, Dan begins suspecting Gary, whose cousin Mike had a similar slip of the gears. Dan discusses the case with eminent psychiatrist Dr. Siedow, who has a few sexually slipped gears of his own. Together they try to stop the fiend before more people are killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Room 13 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Scarecrow (1982)
Plot Summary:
The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Squeaker (1963)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Mask of Murder (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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The Monster of Venice (1965)
Plot Summary:
A mad killer is loose in Venice's catacombs. He attacks the beautiful women, releasing them into the underworld, kill them and then stop them and add them to his "collection".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic
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The Bloody Slaying of Sarah Ridelander (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent 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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The Mailman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly Mailman in a small, placid suburban town. Darius Foxx scarred for life as a young boy by seeing his parents brutally murdered, comes back to town as the new Mailman to torment his younger brother, Daniel, and Daniel's adopted family.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Plot Summary:
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house
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Reaper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Attack of the Morningside Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
When desecrated corpses and ritualistic symbols start appearing, the residents of Morningside, New Jeresey, are thrust into an unreal world of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Mommy's Day (1997)
Plot Summary:
After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders are continuing, it doesn't look very good for Mommy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Survival Knife (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even worse than the man who scarred her forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful
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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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To All a Goodnight (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples one by one. The police show up and promise to keep everyone safe, but they prove ineffectual against the crazed psycho. Could the killings have anything to do with the girl who was killed in an initiation stunt at the school a few years earlier?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, bleak, bloody, suspenseful, independent film, slasher horror
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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Splatter University (1984)
Plot Summary:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, suspense, bloody, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, serious
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, slasher, grindhouse, tense, suspense, rough, erotic, surreal