Highest-Rated Movies about 'Independent Horror'

Dawn of the Dead (1978), Night of the Living Dead (1968), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Evil Dead (1981), Black Christmas (1974), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Haute tension (2003), Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Independent Horror movies.

#16. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

Storyline: Colonel Reynolds and his group of government scientists continue their work on re-animating the dead for military use. His son Curt and his girlfriend Julie use Dad's security pass to sneak in and watch the proceedings. Later when father and son have a disagreement, Curt and Julie take off on a motorcycle and Julie is killed in an accident. Grief-stricken, Curt takes her body to the lab and brings her back to life. Curt must help Julie deal with her new existence as military agents and local gang members try to find them.

Plot Keywords: female nudity, undead, nudity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, military base, motorcycle crash ...

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#18. Eaten Alive (1976)

Storyline: Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: hixploitation, slasher, alligator, tourist, brothel, sickle, prostitute ...

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#19. Undead (2003)

Storyline: Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her childhood farm to the bank, local beauty Rene decides to leave town and head for the big city. Suddenly, an avalanche of meteorites races through the sky, bombarding the town and bringing an otherworldly infection. Departing is going to be much more difficult than she had planned. The living dead are awakened and Rene is now caught in a nightmare of zombies hungry for human flesh. She manages to find salvation in a small isolated farm house owned by the town loony, Marion. There she is met with four other desperate survivors. Together they battle their way through a plague of walking dead and discover that there is more transpiring than just an infection.

Plot Keywords: pump action shotgun, shotgun, survival, eccentric, police officer, pistol, revolver ...

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#21. See No Evil (2006)

Storyline: While investigating a call in an abandoned house, Officer Frank Williams and a rookie find a woman brutally blinded, but they are attacked by a huge psychopath with an ax; the rookie is killed and Frank shoots the criminal in the head, but has a severed arm. Four years later, the mutilated Frank is relocated, working as a guard in the County Detention Center. Frank goes with some delinquents to the Blackwell Hotel, an abandoned place since a fire burnt the last two floors, with the purpose of cleaning the location, preparing it to work as a shelter for the homeless; in return, the criminals will have their sentences reduced. During the night, the inmate Kira who has some Christian tattoos on her body is kidnapped by the deranged serial-killer Kane who collects the eyes of his victims, while the rest of the group is attacked by the psychopath with his ax.

Plot Keywords: snorricam, one armed man, torture, suffocation, stun gun, stabbed through the chin, stabbed in the leg ...

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#22. Summer Camp (2015)

Storyline: 4 young Americans travel to Europe to work as counsellors for a summer camp there. Before the kids arrive, a rage-inducing, demonic disease spread rapidly from animal to person, resulting in the counsellors desperately trying to escape the illness. The camp's in the wilderness, and with the phone service, not any cars , they're desperate too stay alive and get help.

Plot Keywords: independent film, zombie violence, flesh eating, flesh eating zombie, woods, forest, virus ...

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#24. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Storyline: Five years after killing the goalie hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis has grown up in various mental hospitals unable to get over the nightmares about Jason's return. When Tommy is sent to a rural halfway house in New Jersey for mentally disturbed teenagers, a series of grisly murders begin anew as another hockey-masked killer begins killing off all people at and around the residence. Has Jason returned from the dead to re-start his killing spree? Has Tommy decided to take over the reign of Jason, or has someone else?

Plot Keywords: grindhouse film, american horror, child in jeopardy, psychopathic murderer, deeply disturbed person, sadistic killer, stabbed in the leg ...

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#25. Dark Ride (2006)

Storyline: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: high school, twin, teenager, bare breasts, twin sister, skeleton, face slap ...

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#26. Eaters (2010)

Storyline: The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new "guinea-pigs" for Gyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and a mysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsman of the epidemic...—HiTsFroMThEBonG

Plot Keywords: walking dead, independent film, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie violence, bloodbath, independent horror ...

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