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Plot Summary:
On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic killing spree - leaving Jim and his friends fighting to get out of the forest alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, anime, exciting, realistic, slasher
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 78%
Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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Hayride 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The end of one journey only marks the beginning of another as Detective Loomis returns to uncover the truth behind the Legend of Pitchfork.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film, psychotronic
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Nite Tales: The Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Actors: Flavor Flav, Dante Basco, Chico Benymon, Andrea Bogart, James Ferris.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, anthology, tense, psychological, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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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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Desecrated (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man's land. They soon find that the caretaker's dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Basement Jack (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, low-budget
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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Darker than Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Fright Fest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Blood runs rampant on Halloween night when a small towns' Fright Fest becomes real inside the walls of a long abandoned asylum.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, captivating, suspense
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The Choke (2006)
Plot Summary:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Alone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Fall Down Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie Wallace, the woman that can identify him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, christmas horror, bleak, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, scary, rough, serious
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Death Row (2007)
Plot Summary:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, independent film
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The Bates Haunting (2012)
Plot Summary:
One year ago, Agnes Rickover attended opening night at the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride to see her best friend Lily's dramatic debut. A horrific accident resulted in Agnes witnessing Lily's fiery death in a spectacle gone wrong. After a year of obsessing over a murder investigation everyone else thinks is open and shut, Agnes goes to work at the Haunt in an attempt confront her trauma. Horrific events begin to claim the lives of her coworkers and Agnes must figure out what is behind all of the "accidents" before more people die.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic
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Killer Holiday (2013)
Plot Summary:
Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they get farther and farther away from civilization along old Route 66 with a killer in pursuit. Anxiety builds as each stop along the way proves stranger and stranger until the group is lured to an abandoned amusement park with a mysterious past far off the main highway. There the group discovers that the park comes complete with broken down vintage carnival rides, shocking surprises, the smell of death, and an enticing, young tattooed serial killer named Spider.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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No One Can Hear You (2001)
Plot Summary:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, tense, realistic
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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Psycho Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bloody, detective, cult classic, independent film, serious
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, independent film
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Tempus Tormentum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, suspense, psychotronic, psycho film
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Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
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HazMat (2013)
Plot Summary:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic