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Plot Summary:
Based on supposable true life events set in the English outback. Four teenagers take a shortcut across the countryside on their way home from college. They arrive in an obscure town named Blackwood where they are terrorized by notorious serial killer, Hammerhead, who hunts humans and devours their flesh. His favored tool of death is a large hammer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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Bloodstream (1985)
Plot Summary:
When up and coming director Alistair Bailey is fired from a project by notorious VHS distributor William King, he believes that his footage has been left in the trash can. He soon discovers however that King tricked him and is planning to globally sell the movie that he spent ages working on. As the lust for revenge strengthens, Bailey decides to don the same disguise as the one used by his antagonist and make a new feature. Only this time, the effects will be real….
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 89%
Bloody Psycho (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is one of the five films legendary director Lucio Fulci supervised in 1989 to re-use some of the gory bits for his 1990 gorefest "A Cat in the Brain". "Bloody Psycho" features a haunted castle plus wimpy doctor Vogler,who is performing some sort of a psychic therapy on lesbian owner of the place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 87%
Fungicide (2002)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a crazed scientist gets a forced weekend away at a Bed and Breakfast? Mushrooms and mayhem! Death stalks the shocked guests as mushrooms of all shapes and sizes run rampant through the woods!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, splatter, psychotronic
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Jackhammer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, awful
Similar in 79%
Offensive (2016)
Plot Summary:
A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a house in rural France. Bernard's father had liberated this same village from the Nazis during the Second World War, in a rage-fueled killing spree. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a cruel gang of street kids, who terrorise the village. Plugged into their devices and devoid of empathy, they are a new breed of technological psychopath... Bernard and Helen's lives become a living hell as they are harassed and tormented by the gang. When pushed beyond breaking point, right or wrong no longer matters, survival is everything! Can Bernard live up to his father's legend? And could they live with the consequences? This is the old generation vs the new!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 83%
The Remake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A deranged horror fanatic stalks and kills members of a film crew after discovering their intent to remake a popular 1980s slasher film.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
Similar in 77%
Home Made (2008)
Plot Summary:
About a horror filmmaker who embarks on making the ultimate snuff movie. He arms himself with a camera and goes on a killing rampage - no one can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
Similar in 89%
Harvest Of Fear (2004)
Plot Summary:
Who's killing the college students during the annual Harvest Festival?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
Similar in 82%
Video Violence 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy. Some viewers are shocked and horrified, but many more become avid fans, clamoring for more and more blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Bonesetter Returns (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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The Headless Eyes (1971)
Plot Summary:
A poor artist gets his eye gouged out whilst committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon in this surreal arthouse/exploitation film form 1971.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, controversial, detective, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film
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Frightworld (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
Similar in 81%
Summer Camp (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go terribly wrong real fast as a terrible game of tag has the campers running for their lives or going after the campers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, spooky, independent film, creepy, awful
Similar in 79%
Evil Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of rich college brats conspire to play a prank on Jimmy Fisher, the school nerd. But when Jimmy ends up unconscious, the co-eds leave him and head out to a party. What they don't realize is that, when Jimmy wakes up, the evil inside of him triggers and he sets out for revenge as he offs his tormentors in some very original ways: exploding cigarettes, beer bottles, mops, spiked frat paddles and more.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 86%
Blood Lake (1987)
Plot Summary:
Six teenagers decide to party one weekend, but before the partying begins one couple disappears. Only to be fount brutally murdered. A blood thirsty killer is stalking their summer playground. One by one bodies begin to show up, as they become prey to the venomous vengeance-seeking maniac.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher horror
Similar in 84%
They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two Texas gardeners, who object to Northern attitudes and lifestyles, venture northward to cut lawns, trim hedges, and murder and mutilate Northern Yuppies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, independent film, slasher horror
Similar in 78%
Blaze of Gory (2016)
Plot Summary:
British horror anthology with 9 different tales.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
Similar in 82%
The 6th Friend (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six college best friends throw their own private graduation party, however the stoner of the group orders in a psychedelic from her drug dealer, who sticks around to join in their fun. Drugged and disoriented, the girls’ special night quickly becomes a dark, foggy nightmare of blood and violence. Five years later, the girls gather together in a cabin in the woods in hopes of rekindling that close friendship that they once had, only to find themselves being hunted by who, or what, they do not know….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror
Similar in 81%
Dead by Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas Past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic
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Three Days in the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone love camping in the woods. It's usually a calm, relaxing getaway. For five friends, it's the perfect way to send off one of their own. Amongst the partying and debauchery comes something much more sick and depraved. The five friends find themselves hunted by unknown killers. With the woods working against them, will they fall one by one or will they survive the next Three Days in the Woods? Mad Angel Films and Wicked Six Productions show you a glimpse of the evil that lie within the innocuous. Directed by Matthew A. Peters and written by Mark Joseph Peek, Three Days in the Woods will shock and disgust you. We promise.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
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The Evil in Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
While on a fourth of July holiday, six best friends fall victim to the insidious plan of a terrorist organization when they unknowingly take a bio-active drug that transforms them into bloodthirsty cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, rough, scary, slasher, detective
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Mr. Cleaver (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seven gutter punks break into a seemingly abandoned warehouse only to find themselves hunted by its bloodthirsty owner. A sex, drugs, and gore throwback to the straight-to-video slasher movies of the early 90s.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, rough
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The Blood Shed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sweet little tale about your average inbred, hillbilly, cannibal family residing in the northern part of New Jersey and how they deal with the day-to-day annoyances of encroaching suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 83%
Lost After Dark (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, atmospheric, sexy, teen horror, slasher horror, retro
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Slaughtered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, scary, realistic
Similar in 87%
The Redwood Massacre (2014)
Plot Summary:
‘THE REDWOOD MASSACRE’ is about five adventurous friends, visiting the legendary murder site of Redwood. It has all the hallmarks of being an exciting and thrilling camping weekend away. They soon discover they’re not the only people in the mysterious location. The fun camping expedition soon turns into a nightmare as they are sadistically stalked by a mysterious unseen killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, independent film
Similar in 76%
Roadside Massacre (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five college friends take a detour while traveling to their spring break destination. They end up in the remote mountain town of Blueridge, where Karen (Marina Resa) believes her older sister went missing 2 years before. After a few odd encounters with the locals, Karen and her friends decide to continue their journey until an unexpected auto malfunction leaves them stranded. The group takes refuge in a local motel and soon learns that in Blueridge, "missing persons" is just a way of life. One-by-one they begin disappearing until the grizzly discovery is made that the local BBQ Rib Restaurant might be serving up more than anyone had bargained.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, slasher, road movie
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
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Escape from Cannibal Farm (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the British countryside, the Harver family head out on an idyllic summer camping trip where they can bury past tensions and enjoy some family bonding. But when their camp is sabotaged by an unseen intruder in the night, they head to the nearby creepy old farm desperate for help, where vengeful farmer Hunt Hansen and his hideously deformed son aren't farming animals... Caged and waiting for their limbs to be severed, cooked and eaten one at a time, the Harver family must overcome their differences and unite in order to escape alive!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing