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Slasher
🔪 Every slasher title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
1093 titles
The Clinic
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Andy Whitfield, Tabrett Bethell, Freya Stafford
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
The Girl Who Got Away
›2021 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 117m · Lexi Johnson, Chukwudi Iwuji, Kaye Tuckerman
A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer escapes and begins hunting for the one who got away.
Kill Theory
›2009 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 82m · Don McManus, Ryanne Duzich, Teddy Dunn
While 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.
Tormented
›R2009 · Horror, Comedy · 91m · Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas
Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 75m · Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley, John Henry Richardson
Los Angeles private eye Jack Chandler is hired by a worried mother to find her missing runaway daughter, Samantha. As Chandler searches for her whereabouts, he uncovers an evil cult that worships an Egyptian god, whose followers commit human sacrifices with chainsaws to appease their deity. He soon learns that Samantha has revenge in store for the cult leader and his bevy of blood-thirsty, chainsaw-wielding hookers.
Bad Dreams
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
Urban Explorer
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Nathalie Kelley, Klaus Stiglmeier, Nick Eversman
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!
A Horrible Way to Die
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brandon Carroll, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
The Slayer
›R1982 · Horror · 80m · Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn, Carol Kottenbrook
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
The Retreat
›2021 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Tommie-Amber Pirie, Sarah Allen, Rossif Sutherland
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
Devil in the Flesh
›R1998 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Rose McGowan, Alex McArthur, Phil Morris
When her mother is killed in a mysterious house fire, rebellious teen Debbie Strand is sent to live with her grandmother, where she becomes even more unhinged. She develops an intense crush on her hunky creative writing teacher, Peter Rinaldi, but her numerous attempts at seduction end in failure. Soon Peter's friends start turning up dead, and he fears that his fiancée, Marilyn, may be Debbie's next victim.
The Unseen
›R1980 · Horror · 94m · Barbara Bach, Stephen Furst, Sydney Lassick
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
Kolobos
›R1999 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Amy Weber, Donny Terranova, Nichole Pelerine
Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.
She Came from the Woods
›2023 · Horror · 101m · Cara Buono, Clare Foley, Spencer List
In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleashes a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.
Schizoid
›R1980 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.
Hide and Go Shriek
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · George Thomas, Donna Baltron, Brittain Frye
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Silent Madness
›R1984 · Horror · 93m · Viveca Lindfors, Belinda Montgomery, Solly Marx
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
The Zero Boys
›1986 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 89m · Daniel Hirsch, Kelli Maroney, Nicole Rio
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.
Wishcraft
›R2002 · Horror · 102m · Michael Weston, Alexandra Holden, Austin Pendleton
Brett is a high-school outcast who doesn't run with the in crowd, unlike Samantha, the cheerleader he has a desperate crush on. Then one day, he gets a parcel in the mail -- a totem with the power to grant his deepest, darkest desires. Brett wishes for Samantha to love him, and she does, although after a while her affection starts leaning toward obsession. Then murders start occurring in the school, which Brett gradually starts to connect to the totem.
Cries in the Night
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Horror High
›PG1973 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, Rosie Holotik
A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him - the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff.
The Severed Arm
›R1973 · Horror · 91m · Deborah Walley, David G. Cannon, Paul Carr
Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Disconnected
›1984 · Horror · 82m · Frances Sherman, Mark Walker, Carl Koch
Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?
The Wind
›1986 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
