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Plot Summary:
A lost slasher film from the golden age of the slasher genre. October 1979, Ricky Dean Logan is a man on a mission. Years ago, he lost a child at the hands of a psychopathic killer named Jakkariah Harding. When Harding escapes Death Row, Ricky Dean throws himself into the line of fire to stop him from killing again as Harding preys upon a group of friends gathered to watch a college football game.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Unfinished (2022)
Plot Summary:
Writer Zora Matthews is the daughter of famous author Thomas Morgan Matthews who died a year ago. Both Zora and Thomas suffer from schizophrenia. After a fight with husband Drew, Zora escapes to her father's hideaway house in beautiful Topanga Canyon. There Zora is introduced to bartender Eddie, his wife Lorena, and handyman Amadi. They all talk cryptically about how Zora's father changed their world. The stress triggers Zora's schizophrenia, and her dreams become horrific as she slowly discovers that her father's past included grisly murder and suicide, and the ghosts of his actions are back to haunt her and drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Legend of Johnny Jones (2024)
Plot Summary:
Born in the New Jersey public housing, the young Johnny Jones (Robert Crayton) in his life has known only abuse and poverty. Pushed over the edge, Johnny Jones suffers a mental breakdown and ignites a killing spree never seen in history, leaving a trail of death and carnage everywhere he goes. While the tensions and the murders only get worse, the city calls Detective Cutchin (Tom Sizemore) to solve the case and bring Johnny Jones to justice.
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Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher, detective
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Piglady (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events. Filmed at the murder scene. A group of friends, while on a Christmas vacation to a cabin in Southern Oregon, learn of a rumor of an antisocial woman who allegedly murders people and feeds her victims to pigs.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 82%
Dead Hunt (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ten movie reviewers are invited to a party by the host of a website devoted to horror films. The party is in full swing when the power - and the lights - abruptly go out. A mysterious, black-hooded figure has cut the main wiring. The party's over. The terrified group try to evacuate the building, only to find that they are trapped. Can they hide from the demented killer? Or are they all destined to become targets of the DEAD HUNT? This two-disc special edition DVD set contains the movie, a "Behind the Scenes" featurette, deleted scenes, two alternate endings, Bloopers, a stills gallery, and the audio commentary with co-directors Joe Ripple and Don Dohler. Sadly, this was Don Dohler's last film, as he passed away from lung and brain cancer in December, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Carnage: The Legend of Quiltface (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four students set out for the barren Nevada desert on a class photography assignment. They are soon confronted by a machete-wielding maniac known as Quiltface.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 90%
Bring It On: Cheer Or Die (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a cheer squad practices their routines on Halloween weekend in an abandoned school, they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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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
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Bloodbath in Psycho Town (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns two documentary film students who travel to a small, isolated town in the middle of nowhere to film a documentary about murders that occurred there. Soon they are stalked by someone who is afraid the students are getting to close to a close guarded secret in the town that led to the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, student film
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The Night Brings Charlie (1990)
Plot Summary:
A late era slasher firmly stuck in 1983 that knows how to keep it simple: a quiet, hooded tree-trimmer goes on a twisted killing spree in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Killing Spree (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film
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Demon Warrior (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of young friends go hunting during their holidays near a small town in Texas, where the father of one of them own a piece of land. But the place has a legend. Years ago the grandfather stole the land from the Indians and they cursed the family. The curse is effective once every 10 years. 20 years ago the grandfather was killed, 10 years ago an uncle disappeared, and now.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Drive In (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man, confined to a room across from a drive-in theater showing only horror movies, escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 76%
Death Nurse 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Camp Utopia (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Manson-like cult leader disappears after freaking out and hacking up a bunch of his followers with a machete. Thirty something years later some kids come and camp out on the site of the killings. Of course, bad stuff happens.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 83%
Day of the Ax (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective
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The Bagman (2002)
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No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Red Book Ritual (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three friends decide to play The Red Book game. What they don't know is that in the house evil is waiting to be released. A long time ago a witch died as part of a satanic ritual. Every question they ask, they get closer and closer to her. The book will reveal the answers to all your questions… but what if your host is an evil entity with a thirst for blood?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: New Zealand, Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology
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Death Nurse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Shady Palms Clinic, a place where nurse Edith Mortley and her brother Dr. Gordon Mortley take great care of their patients. They tuck you in, offer free burial service, and serve freshly made sandwiches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 79%
Dark Fields (2006)
Plot Summary:
Out of gas on a dark country road and forced to seek help at a farmhouse, five teenagers on their way to a rock concert step into a nightmare as they're hunted by a twisted killer with an ax.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Wild Hunt (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite for a camping trip when things start to go awry. Soon, they are hunted by wild beasts and have to fight to survive.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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Slumber Party Slaughter Party 2 (2023)
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Four years after a series of brutal murders took place, a psychotic killer returns to wreak havoc.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: slasher
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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 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
Similar in 77%
Hollow (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman with early signs of Alzheimer's begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. She uncovers something sinister is observing her every move.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Hollow Gate (1988)
Plot Summary:
At a Halloween party, a young boy is almost killed by his drunken, alcoholic father. Ten years afterward, the boy goes on a murder spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
Similar in 83%
Mr. Halloween (2007)
Plot Summary:
The town of Sauquoit, New York has a local legend, which says that the reclusive man who runs the annual Halloween haunted house uses real body parts to make his attraction so frightening. This is a legend that is taken lightly by everyone until the youth of the town begin disappearing, and people start pointing fingers. The remaining teens of the town want to get to the bottom of the mystery, so they decide to check out that old haunted house for themselves. As more kids disappear, less of the mystery is solved. And why is the Sheriff so uninterested in investigating Bill Loomis, who has gotten the nickname... Mr. Halloween.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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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%
Kill Her Goats (2023)
Plot Summary:
Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Grotesque (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mildred Moyer transforms from shy misfit to loveable psychopath when her back-alley plastic surgery is botched. Mildred finds herself living her best life as she unleashes brutal vengeance on all those who tormented her in the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: perverse, slasher, horror comedy
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Trick (2019)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic, splatter, detective, independent film