Best movies like The Raven
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Plot Summary:
Roderick throws a masquerade ball inside a creepy mansion with a dark past. An infamous mass-murder happened there fifty years ago to the night, but that's part of the fun for the posh hotties who show up for some boozy partying. The reverie is cut short when a Raven-masked killer crashes the party, intent on repeating the bloody history of the "Ravenwood Massacre" that happened decades ago. As the unknown killer picks the guests off one by one, old grudges resurface among friends, and new suspicions emerge.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Beastly Boyz (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rachel, a beautiful young artist, is savagely murdered at her secluded lakefront house by a group of soulless killers. Enraged and shocked by his sister’s senseles murder, Rachel’s brother, Travis, vows to avenge her murder and punish her killers one by one – even if it costs him his soul. Guided by his sister’s ghostly voice that commands him to take brutal revenge, Travis hunts down each of the killers and punishes them in gruesome fashion. Sickened by the horror of his own murderous actions, and driven by his murdered sister’s vengeful spirit, Travis discovers a fate much worse than murder….
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: teen horror
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The Brotherhood IV: The Complex (2005)
Plot Summary:
Lee Hanlon, the smartest student at an elite military school called the Complex, is intrigued by the academy's Black Skulls brotherhood but finds himself thrust into the role of global savior when he discovers their devilish origin.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic
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The Victorville Massacre (2011)
Plot Summary:
Something is happening in the desert town of Victorville. Neighbors are disappearing and murder is in the air. Despite rumors of a serial killer, a group of nine friends decide to spend Labor Day partying in town. But fun descends into terror as they're massacred one by one. Soon trying to survive Labor Day weekend will take on a whole new meaning.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, tense, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, detective, slasher horror, cult film
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House of Usher (2008)
Plot Summary:
Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Brotherhood V: Alumni (2009)
Plot Summary:
A year after a mean-spirited prom prank turned deadly, the most popular students of Sunnydale High are summoned back for a surprise reunion, only to find themselves at the mercy of a relentless killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending
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Savage High (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three students that are brutally murdered over the weekend as the students and staff are getting ready for the annual 'Wildcat Night', but the murderer walks among the peers ready to strike again, in this slasher flick.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, grindhouse, teen horror, retro
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They/Them (2022)
Plot Summary:
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, queer horror, intellectual, spooky, psychological thriller, psychological horror, slasher horror, psychological, queer cinema
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3 Scream Queens (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alexis, Sylvia and Ellen are a trio of legendary scream queens. After the head of a motion picture studio invites them out to a very special screening in exchange for the possibility of a lead role in an upcoming horror film, the three women slowly become suspicious... not only of their circumstances, but also each other. They begin to realize that the horrific footage they are watching might be real and that they might be trapped in the deserted studio with a bonafide killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, hot, campy
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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The Unseeable (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualjin who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, surprise ending, asian horror
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Vampires: Brighter in Darkness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brighter in Darkness tells the sexy tale of Toby Brighter, a cute young Englishman, who after a disastrous relationship, is set up on a blind date by his sister Charlotte. Toby's date, Lucas Delmore, is charming, charismatic, and physically flawless. He is everything Toby could have wished for except the fact that Lucas is a 1500 year old Vampire. Before long, Toby is plunged into the dark world of demons, black magic and the supernatural, where nobody is safe and nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gay cinema
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Vampire Boys 2: The New Brood (2013)
Plot Summary:
The vampires are back in town but this time there’s a new brood. Chisel-jawed Jon Euler steams up the screen as brood leader Jasin in this hot sequel to the wildly popular original. This time his vengeful ex-lover Demetrius (ripped dreamboat Rob Hoflund) is out to get Jasin and brings along his coven to boot. Jasin and Caleb’s eternal love is put to the test when Jasin’s jilted lover Demetrius returns to get this revenge. Demetrius plots to destroy Jasin by creating an army of vampires — unwilling victims recruited from the local boxing gym. Tara, reeling from her own rejection by Jasin, is eventually compelled by Demetrius to join him in his quest.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing
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The Secret Path (2014)
Plot Summary:
A love story. Theo and Frank are on the run from the British Navy in the early 1800's. They hide in the grounds of an abandoned country house and discover it's more than the living they're running from.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, period piece, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Fappening (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alan Smithee is a struggling filmmaker that has had sex with countless actresses that were trying to break into the business. One day his cellphone gets hacked and naked pictures and sex videos of these women are leaked online, destroying their lives and careers. Trying to do damage control on his own career he finds himself pushed to the limit and must make a decision that could prove fatal for everyone around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy, exciting
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Bruiser (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his mouth shut, follows the rules, and does what he's supposed to do. But one morning, he wakes up to find his face is gone. All the years of acquiescence have cost him the one thing he can't replace: his identity. Now he's a blank, outside as well as in, an anonymous, featureless phantom. Bent on exacting revenge, he explodes. He isn't going to follow the rules anymore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic, creepy, classic horror, serious
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The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, scary, surprise ending, tense, suspense, captivating, melancholic, erotic, queer horror
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The Frightening (2002)
Plot Summary:
The eighteen years old Corey Peterson moves with his mother to a small town due a trauma in the past. On his first day at Hallows End High School, he is approached by the student also new arrival in town Mason that tells him about a death of a friend of him in the school and advises Corey to stay away from the wrestler Perry and his gang. When two other students vanish, Corey decides to talk to Principal Rizcheck, who does not give any attention to him. Together with Mason, they investigate the secret about the school and disclose the dark truth about Hallows End and the missing students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, independent film, scary, surprise ending, gay cinema
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Alpha Delta Zatan (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alpha Delta Zatan is set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a frat house, the film follows the increased paranoia between members of a fraternity as they start to disappear at the hands of a masked killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, slasher horror, queer cinema
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Fox Trap (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a terrible accident leaves a young girl disabled, five years later, the group responsible are invited to a remote manor house in the countryside for a class reunion. Little do they know, they are being targeted by a masked maniac hell bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cuties (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of gay teenagers are picked off by a mysterious killer during the first month of their senior year, while insecure boy Micah goes through a crisis of self-worth as he can't grasp why the killer has no interest in coming after him.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dead Ones (2019)
Plot Summary:
For four outcast teens, summer detention means being assigned to clean their high school after a horrific incident. But they are not alone; a macabre gang wearing guises of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - Famine, Pestilence, War and Death - has locked them inside and is hunting them through the school's ravaged hallways. As the four students battle to survive, each must confront the supernatural echoes of past traumas they have struggled to forget - and may be condemned to relive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Retribution (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, eighties, low-budget, cult film
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Knife + Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1970s, a Parisian TV executive seeks to restore her credibility with an ambitious production after it is initially disrupted by a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, queer horror, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, art house, action thriller, dark drama
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Haunt (2013)
Plot Summary:
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that is family has unknowingly just purchased.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, serious
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Humongous (1982)
Plot Summary:
Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, retro, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
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Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to try and finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, queer horror, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Plot Summary:
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, philosophical, sexy, suspense, splatter, grindhouse
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Vampire Boys (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jasin and his vampire brood's time is running out. In order for them to survive, Jasin needs to find a mortal to turn into a vampire to spend eternity with. Los Angeles provides plenty of young candidates. The brood has their eyes set on Tara, a young, gorgeous blond college student. Tara is open to the idea of becoming a vampire, but someone else enters the picture to disrupt the brood's plans. Caleb, a fresh face college student new to Los Angeles, keeps dreaming of a mysterious stranger. At school, Caleb meets the stranger, Jasin, and they have an instant connection. The problem is that time is short, and Jasin needs to convince Caleb that eternity as a vampire can be a very sweet life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, homoerotic, captivating, sexy, independent film, lgbt cinema, psychotronic, gay cinema, campy
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The Lair (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Lair is an American gay-themed vampire television series produced by here! in 2007. The first season, consisting of six episodes, wrapped production in January of that year. The first two episodes premiered on June 1, 2007. Season 2, consisting of 9 episodes debuted on September 5, 2008. A third season of 13 episodes was announced in September 2008 and Colton Ford confirmed that filming took place in October and November 2008. Season 3 premiered September 4, 2009. All three seasons also currently air online at Gay.com.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, sexual, tense, disturbing, sexy
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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen, bloody, teen horror, perverse, queer horror, realistic