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Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bumbling young film crew, shooting a low-budget horror movie in an abandoned orphanage, discovers that a family of sadistic killers has rewritten their script.
Style: psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killing spree, homicidal maniac, psychopath, psycho killer, maniac, serial killer, serial murder, filmmaking, violence, sadistic killer, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.4
 288
Pickaxe (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the summer of 1982, a group of campers was horribly slaughtered at Camp Arapaho in the sleepy little town of Woodland Hills. The 10 gruesome murders were blamed on Alex Black, a mysterious man believed to have been the son of Satan himself, whom ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, serial murder, summer camp, violence, danger, brutality, killing spree, pursuit, revenge, violent ...
Time: year 1982, 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.6
 427
Why? (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, murder, psychopath, terrorizing, writer's life, extreme violence, killings, violent, mystery killer, death, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Barcelona Crime (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: With its expert and attractive crime squad run by these two, Barcelona can be proud of its homicide team: Xavi, independent, impulsive, enigmatic, with a well-functioning network of contacts on the city‘s dark side; and his charming partner Fina, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: squad, serial murder, partners against crime, uncover truth, crime investigation, forensics, murder investigation, teamwork, police investigation, secret revealed, cold case, female police detective ...
Place: barcelona
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 7.3
 25K
Holy Spider (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Style: action thriller, dramatic, tense, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, prostitute, journalist, murder of a prostitute, prostitution, muslim, religion, police, sex worker, investigation, serial murder, religious fundamentalism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, maghreb
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 7.3
 422
Gap Dong (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: 20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap ...
Style: detective, tense, disturbing, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, murder investigation, life, evidence, serial murder, uncover truth, who done it, graphic violence, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as ...
Style: slasher, parody, spooky, horror comedy, splatter ...
Plot: massacre, serial killer, twins, revenge, vulgar, gross out humor, serial murder, absurd humor, absurd violence, sex scene, graphic violence, characters killed one by one ...
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Hitchhiker Massacre (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Beautiful, young hitchhiker Sally (Ely LaMay), attempts to survive the night while making her way back home as a sadistic killer and cannibalistic madman (John Blyth Barrymore) haunts the desert highways, probing for fresh roadkill.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, serial killer, crazy, murder, psychopath, blood, serial murder, massacre, violence, brutality, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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 3.3
 449
Prom Ride (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's the end of the school year for a group of high school friends. Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, he is determined to have them Dead On ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: prom, high school student, serial killer, survival, found footage, psychopath, serial murder, murder, maniac, teenager, characters killed one by one, threat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Teacher Shortage (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: high school student, murder, maniac, psychopath, serial murder, homicidal maniac, masked killer, high school, revenge, blood, violence, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.6
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Charismata (2017)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As a rookie detective struggling to find acceptance in a police department defined by a culture of bullying and intolerance, things go from bad to worse when the chief suspect in a series of brutal ritualistic murders takes a personal interest in ...
Style: psychological, captivating, scary, unusual plot structure, detective
Plot: ritual murder, serial killer, female detective, forensics, murder investigation, serial murder, following someone, police interrogation, confession, hallucination, toxic masculinity, nudity ...
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 6.7
 39K
Marrowbone (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, sibling relationship, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, split personality, schizophrenic, loss of mother, attic ...
Time: 60s, year 2017, year 1969
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Slaughter Party (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Here's what Judge David Johnson has to say about this film: Yes, there is a party, and some people do get slaughtered. Beyond that you're better off looking the other way and using your time more wisely. Go read a book. Or run for a ...
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, disorder, stalking, mad scientist, danger, police, murder investigation, police brutality, serial murder, nude, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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You Might Be the Killer (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.
Style: horror comedy, slasher, suspense, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, survival, mystery killer, curse, murder, friendship, dark humor, characters killed one by one, trap, homicidal maniac, murderer ...
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The Cabin House (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A group of college friends rent a cabin in a remote part of town for a weekend getaway. A weekend getaway that quickly turns from a weekend of fun to a weekend of pure terror.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost town, siblings, forest, villain, revenge, serial murder, teenage boy, murder, teenage girl, suicide, evil, death of friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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See No Evil 2 (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, psychopath, serial killer, danger, strong violent content, profanity, rivalry, man in a wheelchair, serial murder, murder, chase, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.3
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Panman (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Panman is a demon chef with the recipe for murder. As people start to disappear, a custard professor and a few of his students, band together to try and stop PANMAN. In the beginning, Panman seems to be a vicious killer with a pan in his hand and a ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychotronic, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school student, serial killer, student, chef, serial murder, masked killer, demon, blood, death, food, psychopath, mystery killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Blue Turquoise (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A escapee from a mental asylum returns home to terrorize his twin brother and starts to commit gruesome crimes, but a friend of someone he might of killed will search for the killer along with a young detective who is trying to break his first ...
Style: slasher, sad, psychotronic, scary, grindhouse ...
Plot: revenge, murder, serial killer, psycho killer, murderer, killer, homicidal maniac, crazy, terror, twins, serial murder, craziness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois
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The Night Stalker (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Style: psychological, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, psychopath, rape, death, true crime, murderer, rapist, serial murder, violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 1980
Place: california
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 5.9
 5K
Otis (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag ...
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, prom, kidnapping, vengeance, danger, missing person, cheerleader, teenage life, child in peril, fbi, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murderer, psychopath, investigation, life is a bitch, chase, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, danger, serial murder, violence ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, kansas
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1313: Wicked Stepbrother (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Jarrod is horrified to learn that a faceless killer is celebrating his birthday by filling his mansion with the corpses of his closest friends.
Style: scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, serial killer, youth, danger, teenage life, homosexual, serial murder, murderer, camp, conspiracy, murder, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
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Don't Go Into the House by the Woods (2017)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man goes to his parents house over the weekend and is scared to death when he starts to receive phone calls from a psycho who might be inside the house.
Style: suspense, twist ending, dark, slasher, grindhouse ...
Plot: murder mystery, mental institution, parents, mental patient, serial killer, murder, teenager, death, small town, serial murder, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary (2014)
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five youths on a weekend getaway fall prey to a depraved family of cannibals in Tobe Hooper's masterpiece of subversive horror, now featuring a 4k digital transfer and all-new surround sound mix supervised by the director.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, tense ...
Plot: disturbed individual, hitchhiker, massacre, cannibalism, dead teenager, murder, blood, chainsaw, psycho killer, fear, killing spree, family relations ...
Time: year 1973
Place: texas, usa
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The Green Monster (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: What would you do to stay beautiful forever? What would you give to have a loved one back for good? Welcome to Gerald's Hungry Shack! Your one stop shop for all your material needs. Where your wish is their command. Buyer beware - you pay with ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot: zombie, fight, murder, death, teenage love, serial murder, sex, strangulation, blood, rape, serial killer, strangled to death ...
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Dreamier: An American Nightmare (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Manny Velazquez Psychological Thriller about a young detective (played by Alen Rios) finds a handcrafted Indian sculpture in an alley, and takes it home with him, but he soon realizes that the sculpture is bringing his worst fears to life.
Style: suspense, dark, scary, bleak, slasher ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: home invasion, killer clown, psychopath, murder, paranormal, homicidal maniac, darkness, paranormal phenomena, masked killer, serial murder, demon, nightmare ...
Place: chicago
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Penance (2024)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: revenge, murder, serial murder, blood, violence, brutality, psychopath, danger, death, chase, obsession, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california
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 6.2
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Shockwave (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Just as Wes thought his summer couldn't get any worse it got terrifying when he wakes up one morning to find a bloody mess with a letter to add the cherry on top to a confusing puzzle that leads to a gruesome trail of shock and horror.
Style: slasher, suspense, surprise ending, scary, bleak ...
Plot: murder, fear, murderer, violence, psycho killer, terror, serial murder, darkness, chase, ghost, villain, shock ...
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The Red Spider (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: serial killer, murderer, legend, obsessed fan, serial murder, death, murder, killing spree, moral dilemma, love interest, relationship problems, criminal ...
Place: poland
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Unborn But Forgotten (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A website is seemingly killing every woman who views it within fifteen days. While investigating the phenomenon, a female reporter begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of the site known only as The White Room.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, website, computers and web, journalism, inventions and discoveries, pregnancy, technology gone awry, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, race against time, danger ...
Time: 21st century
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