Best movies like The Ringmaster
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Plot Summary:
Nationwide quietness. The streets are empty. Everyone’s glued to their screens at home, watching the final game. In the outskirts of Denmark, close to the German border, a small gas station needs to be open for service, even on this special night. Two young women have the shift. Ambitious Agnes is in the backroom putting finishing touches on her thesis, while free-spirited Belinda is on her phone, hoping to get the attention of her boyfriend. Unfortunately, the shift is not going to be as uneventful as they think, because no customers also means no witnesses, and the girls have been spotted to play a special part in a very different sort of game.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, disturbing, psychotronic, sadistic
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Minutes to Midnight (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the cusp of New Year's Eve, seven friends and a mysterious backpacker converge at a desolate ski lodge in the mountains when they are systematically hunted down by ruthless masked men with a cryptic agenda.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, suspense, tense, rough, brutal, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
The Yearly Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist named Jin Maddison has traced the origin of many Christmas traditions to a remote town in the Midwest called Selah. Years ago another famous journalist died in an accident there while investigating the same story. Jin travels to Selah hoping to unravel the mystery, suspicious of a darker truth behind the festive holiday. Upon arrival she's stunned by the lack of decorations, lights, and signs, as well as the refusal of most locals to even talk about 'Christmas'. After a violent encounter she's saved by Private Investigator Amy Carson, who is trailing several Missing Persons cases that have led her to Selah. As they continue prying, they realize that the secrets Selah is hiding are far more terrifying than they could've ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, fairy tale, detective
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Anabel (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anabel and his two roommates are looking for someone to share the rent. They choose an older gentleman who gain their trust, but soon they discover a strange and disturbing presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dreamcatcher (2021)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, talky, scary, surprise ending, bleak, brutal
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Candie's Harem (2015)
Plot Summary:
Candie is a bisexual who has a perfect setup with multiple partners until everyone starts dying around her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Don't Let Them In (2020)
Plot Summary:
A home invasion horror movie in the vein of You're Next and The Purge, about a group of people under siege by masked intruders in an abandoned hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Cabin Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror, horror comedy, surprise ending, twist ending
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Joker Game (2012)
Plot Summary:
All seniors at a high school stay together at a camp, including student Chinatsu. On their first day, the home room teacher announces that all the students must play the card game "Old Maid". In order to reverse the declining academic abilities of its younger generation, the Japanese government planned this camping program. In this card game, the students that lose will meet their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Fear Level (2017)
Plot Summary:
Increased level of fear, six colliding stories, one roller coaster ride of emotions and terror. What would you do if you caught your significant other in the act or was face to face with your abductors? With twists and turns at every corner you will have the ride of your life on this journey. A journey where you will be dying to find out the unknown. Where curiosity kills the cat and a seductive mistake can be your last. What level are you?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, anthology, independent film, slasher
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The Sadist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Massacre County (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a hideous crime in a mansion by the forest, where a group of young people was found murdered, a suspicious clown tries to prove his innocence to the investigator that found him covered in blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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The Dare (2019)
Plot Summary:
A rare family night for Jay takes a brutal twist when he awakens in a basement with three other prisoners. As their vengeful captor runs riot, Jay engages in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family's future.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Pogo Film Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Pogo Film Project shows the intimate side of Gacy’s atrocities; the murders themselves! With a bit of embellishing on the part of the writer, several scenarios play out illustrating how Gacy was able to subdue, torture and murder several young men in his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Cat Sick Blues (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Ted’s beloved cat dies, the trauma triggers a terrible mental breakdown. His broken brain prompts him to bring his feline friend back – all he needs is nine human lives. Ted dons vicious deadly cat claw gloves and a creepy cat mask, and goes on a murderous rampage. As the butchery escalates, a twisted romance blossoms between Ted and Claire, a young woman who has also recently lost her cat in a horrifying incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, weird
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Porkchop 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a Group of survivors come together in a bid for revenge they're in for a shock when they discover the masked maniac Porkchop is not alone!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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100 Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, bloody, suspense
Similar in 85%
Trophy Heads (2014)
Plot Summary:
An obsessed fan and his mother kidnap former 'scream queens' and force them to reenact their famous film roles...with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blackburn Asylum (2015)
Plot Summary:
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Theatre of Fear (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Moreau Family travel around the UK putting on an underground variety show for an adult audience. But behind the curtain there is something more sinister going on than simple entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Condo Hell (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer stalks guests during an open house weekend at a giant secluded luxury condominium estate.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Why? (2021)
Plot Summary:
Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Creeper (2012)
Plot Summary:
Heather and her friends have some devilish fun on the social website, ConnectMeNet. However, their amusement has come at the expense of a lonely and medicated half-wit, Jerry Tobin. After goading him into humiliating himself on camera in various cruel acts of depravity, they post the clips online for the world to see in a video titled "Revenge on a Creeper". This ruins Jerry's meager life and he disappears without a trace... Fast forward a year, and the tables are now turned when Jerry reemerges, off the antipsychotic medication that clouded his thoughts and kept his demons at bay. Now the girls are forced into a nightmarish fight for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, sadistic
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Die Influencers Die (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington (Frankie Rivers) dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty Clown Model - Moxie (Tabitha Stevens) who's directed to kill these intruders by a sinister Otherworld-Coyote (Lizzy Borden). It's a bloody 80's style kill-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Camp Blood 5 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Raven, the only survivor of a previous massacre, returns to the forest to avenge her fallen friends and stop Camp Blood Killer once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film
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Camp Blood 8: Revelations (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Killing at Camp Blood stopped for a while. But the son of the original killer clown has carried on the machete and driven by his deranged mother, played by Sally Mullins (Things 4, Lights Out With David Spade), continues to kill anyone who trespasses in his woods. When a group of female volleyball players' vehicle breaks down in the woods, they are all potential victims of the killer clown. Their leader and coach Dolly, played by Phoebe Dollar (Hell's Highway, Sunset Society), devices a plan that is meant to help them escape, but could possible get them all killed. Is she in on the murders" Does she have a dark secret herself? All will be revealed.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Vile (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of attractive young people (of course) awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with new accouterments--electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls--and a recording on a television screen alerts them of their task. In order to escape, they must hurt themselves and each other. The chemicals that the brain produces when in pain are collected by the devices, and when it collects a predetermined amount, the doors will be opened. Fail to do it in time, and everybody dies.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, twisted, bloody, controversial
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Terrifier (2016)
Plot Summary:
A maniacal clown named Art, terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, brutal, bloody, dark
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Saw II (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, slasher, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, splatter, creepy
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Saw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, splatter