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Plot Summary:
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, spooky, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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4/20 Massacre (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of five women go camping in the woods to celebrate a friend's birthday over 4/20 weekend. But when they cross the turf of an illegal marijuana grow operation they must struggle to survive the living nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror comedy, queer horror, mumblecore
Similar in 82%
Mirage (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three couples set off to spend some time in the desert. At first all is well and they all have a lot of fun (if you know what I mean!). Watching their fun is a mysterious stranger in a pickup truck, who has plans for some fun of his own that the youngsters aren't going to appreciate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, twist ending, demonic, independent film
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Damon's Revenge (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of young adults spend the weekend at a friend's house by the lake. Joined by the local sheriff, the group encounters an escaped convict Native American chief, a copycat killer and the return of the terrifying masked killer, Damon.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Criminally Insane 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, spooky, independent film
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All Girls Weekend (2016)
Plot Summary:
High school friends reunite after many years to spend a weekend in the mountains, but when everything goes wrong, there is no time for girl bonding.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, exciting, tense, suspenseful
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Are You Scared 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two psychopaths controlled by the sick owner of an underground site that is filming their movements and they have to fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, rough, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Masterblaster (1987)
Plot Summary:
Regional finalists of the Masterblaster paintball competition gather together at the national championship for a chance at the title and fifty thousand dollars in cash. The competition turns deadly when someone stops playing games and starts taking lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, christian film, christmas horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, bloody, dark, cult classic, spooky, independent film
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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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The Maze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, slasher
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Hell's Highway (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off anyone who is foolish enough to stray into their deadly territory.Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak, road movie, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, awful
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Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film
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Blood Games (1990)
Plot Summary:
A team of softball players get lost in the woods after their bus breaks down. They get attacked, beaten, raped and murdered by some psychotic men. The women fight back with baseball bats and bows and arrows.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, cult film
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Backwoods (2008)
Plot Summary:
While camping in Jasper Park up North California, the couple Tom Alan Smithee and Gwen Marie Holden are attacked by a group of strangers; Tom is immediately killed and Gwen is abducted by the men to an underground facility to breed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, scary, suspense
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You Are Not Alone (2014)
Plot Summary:
"An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare ... With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to be woken moments later by a loud knock on the door. Experience one night of terror, through Natalie’s eyes as she fights to escape a relentless, knife-wielding maniac …".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Pig Hunt (2008)
Plot Summary:
When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle's remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns - despite the presence of John's sexy girlfriend Brooks. But as John and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle's demise and the legend of The Ripper -- a murderous three-thousand-pound black boar!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Lost Signal (2006)
Plot Summary:
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, serious, scary, dark, slasher, psychological
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Intruder (1989)
Plot Summary:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, retro, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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Wreckage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Just Before Dawn (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there's a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, independent film, serious, suspense
Similar in 86%
Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, retro, scary
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Halloween Kills (2021)
Plot Summary:
The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric, bloody, intense, thrilling, psychological thriller, suspenseful
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Kill Theory (2009)
Plot Summary:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspense, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Plot Summary:
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in addition to terrified teenagers, he meets a young boy named Tommy who has a special talent for horror masks and make up, leading up to a horrifying, bloody battle! Has Jason finally met his match?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful, spooky, teen horror, slasher horror, psychological
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, brutal, splatter
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Plot Summary:
Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop the dark, devious and demented deaths that he unwittingly brought about.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, suspense, retro, dark, controversial, anime
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Hatchet (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, rough, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending