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Halloween(1978)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 2,374 votes)

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Terrifier(2023)

1h 24min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

On Halloween night, a young woman finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.

Directed by Damien Leone - With Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, Catherine Corcoran

High Tension(2003)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 550 votes)

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

Shocker(1989)

R
| 1h 49min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 174 votes)

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Halloween(2007)

R
| 1h 49min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 1,011 votes)

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Dirty Harry(1971)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,117 votes)

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.

The Hunted(2003)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 340 votes)

In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.

The Devil's Rejects(2005)

R
| 1h 47min | Drama, Horror, Crime
3.4/5 (with 597 votes)

The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way.

The Prowler(1981)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 82 votes)

A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Trapped(2002)

R
| 1h 46min | Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 259 votes)

When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

The Burning(1981)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 157 votes)

A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.

Borderland(2007)

R
| 1h 45min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 91 votes)

Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

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The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971)

1h 52min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 172 votes)

A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.

31(2016)

R
| 1h 42min | Horror, Crime
2.7/5 (with 340 votes)

Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

Maniac Cop(1988)

R
| 1h 25min | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 183 votes)

In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police search and find a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, suspected of murdering his own wife and the rest of the unfortunate individuals to die by the Maniac Cop’s reign of terror. To prove his innocence, he investigates the case with his partner, Theresa Mallory.

My Bloody Valentine(1981)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 211 votes)

Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned the town not to celebrate Valentine's Day again. When a group of teenagers decides to defy that order, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.

The Driller Killer(1979)

1h 36min | Drama, Horror
2.6/5 (with 71 votes)

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Abel Ferrara

Angst(1983)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 133 votes)

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Directed by Gerald Kargl - With Erwin Leder

A Bay of Blood(1971)

1h 25min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 157 votes)

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon(2006)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 181 votes)

The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

Sleepless(2001)

R
| 1h 57min | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 98 votes)

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage(1970)

PG
| 1h 36min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 309 votes)

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

The Invisible Maniac(1990)

R
| 1h 26min | Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror
2.0/5 (with 11 votes)

An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.

Directed by Adam Rifkin

Truth or Consequences, N.M.(1997)

R
| 1h 46min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.

Willard(1971)

PG
| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 45 votes)

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

Chain Letter(2010)

R
| 1h 36min | Horror, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 55 votes)

Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who's hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously? Or that chain letters using the teens' favorite technologies to track them can kill? This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?

Directed by Deon Taylor - With Lyna bonasera

Two Thousand Maniacs!(1964)

NR
| 1h 27min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 45 votes)

Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis - With Connie Mason, Andrew Wilson, William Kerwin, Andrew Wilson, Ben Moore

Sweet Home(2015)

1h 20min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 64 votes)

A couple decides to spend a romantic evening in a floor of a semi-abandoned building that slip because she works as a consultant for the council house and got the keys. During the evening they discover that a hooded murderer is the only tenant left in the building...and they have become the new target.

Directed by Rafa Martínez - With Íngrid García Jonsson, José María Blanco, Luka Peroš

Cargo 200(2007)

1h 29min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.

The Greasy Strangler(2016)

1h 33min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 76 votes)

Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.

Directed by Jim Hosking
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