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Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
Similar in 80%
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Plot Summary:
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, classic horror, cult classic, psychological, psychological thriller, retro, bloody, controversial
Similar in 80%
Phantasm II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, cult classic, scary, classic horror, road movie, cult horror, spooky, terrifying, rough
Similar in 78%
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy, creepy, cult classic, horror comedy
Similar in 81%
Puppetmaster (1989)
Plot Summary:
Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of the monstrous marionettes and set off to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, atmospheric, enigmatic, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic, demonic, psychological
Similar in 86%
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, scary, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, stylized, demonic, splatter, creepy
Similar in 76%
The Guardian (1990)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, creepy, atmospheric, slasher, dark, demonic, psychological
Similar in 75%
The Minion (1998)
Plot Summary:
New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templer - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas (Dolph Lundgren) to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses its body like a parasite and host. Lukas arrives just in time to rescue Karen and despatch the Minion. The Minion takes hold of another host - revealing that it is immortal. As it cuts a path of destruction through the city, decimating a parking garage and leaving a trail of death, Karen realizes that the Minion can't be killed - but only delayed from finding a new host.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, dark fantasy, detective, christmas horror
Similar in 75%
Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
Similar in 88%
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, dark, classic horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 86%
The Demon's Rook (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young boy named Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. Dimwos raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Similar in 84%
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Plot Summary:
Pinhead is trapped in a sculpture and fortunately for him the sculpture is bought by a young playboy who owns his own night club. Pinhead busies himself escaping by getting the playboy to lure victims to his presence so he can use their blood. Once free, he seeks to destroy the puzzle cube so he need never return to Hell, but a female reporter is investigating the grisly murders and stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, gothic, disturbing, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, lovecraft
Similar in 89%
Subspecies (1991)
Plot Summary:
The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him. Meanwhile two American schoolgirls teams up with a local girl for a work on Roumanian culture. Radu becomes attracted to them but runs into trouble when his brother Stephan helps the girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic, retro, dark, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
Plot Summary:
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock determined to unleash his father upon the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, retro, dark, mystic, slasher horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough
Similar in 85%
Warlock (1989)
Plot Summary:
A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit. A Warlock is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by a witch-hunter Giles Redferne. He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the bewitching of Redferne's bride-to-be, but before the execution a demon appears and propels the Warlock forward in time to 20th century Los Angeles, California.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting, satanic, mystical, retro, offbeat, perverse
Similar in 87%
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidentally, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, independent film, psychological, retro, psychedelic, dark, mysterious, creepy, rough
Similar in 79%
Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled (2002)
Plot Summary:
The unspeakable evil of the soul-devouring djinn rises again in this fourth electrifying installment of the unstoppable Wishmaster horror legacy! But now, as a host of new victims see their most nightmarish wishes come true, the world faces the ultimate demonic terror: an onslaught of multiple djinns hell-bent on destroying everything in their path!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, emotional, slasher, erotic, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark
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Similar in 89%
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak, retro, folk tale, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 81%
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
Similar in 78%
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, sexy, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 78%
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
A thousand years ago, the Leprechaun left a bloody trail when he ripped through the countryside in search of his stolen gold. Now he's back in the big city using all of his deadly tricks to snare the girl of his nightmares. His bloody quest becomes more deadly when her boyfriend steals one of the Leprechaun's gold coins. The town soon discovers two dead bodies and a trail of gold dust leads them to the Leprechaun's lair.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, fairy tale, psychological thriller, mysterious, controversial, cult classic, cult horror, rough
Similar in 90%
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, slasher, black comedy, suspense, splatter, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, horror comedy, cult horror, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, dark comedy
Similar in 88%
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, melancholic, intense, rough, serious
Similar in 77%
Bordello of Blood (1996)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, humorous, surprise ending, horror comedy, gothic, erotic, dark, slasher, anthology
Similar in 84%
Ghoulies (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, sexy, light, splatter, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, horror comedy
Similar in 75%
Waxwork (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicous. What he doesn't know is that they have been made a part of the exhibit, by first living out the scene and then being murdered in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, horror comedy, classic horror, psychological, funny
Similar in 81%
Creepshow (1982)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary, bloody, suspense, splatter, cult classic, horror comedy
Similar in 88%
The Frighteners (1996)
Plot Summary:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, humorous, dark, dark comedy, creepy, horror comedy, suspenseful, light, suspense