20 best movies like Shallow Ground (2005)

List of the best movies like Shallow Ground (2005): Salvage, Anamorph, The Prowler, Resurrection, Antibodies, Highwaymen, Cherry Falls, The House on Sorority Row, Timber Falls, The Hand.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA

Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

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.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:48

A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryGermany
Duration02:07

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:20

James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for Fargo's 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, which the now-disabled killer has turned into a rolling death trap. James' search is helped by a state traffic officer and a singer with her own agenda.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin...

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:40

    A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration00:30

    Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:46

    An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Thailand, Austria
      Duration01:31

      A serial killer terrorizes a woman searching for the remains of her dead sister, trapping her in a web of horror and erotic intrigue.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryPoland, USA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A young reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up and realises that she is not alive anymore. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing with her desire to experience the outside world finds her faith put to the ultimate test.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:22

      A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
      Duration01:46

        Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

          When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

          Markimdb: 3.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:36

          On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:30

          Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica's been trained to handle herself in surprisingly lethal ways.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:46

          Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
          Duration01:38

          After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:43

          Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

          When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:27

          After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrehorror, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer. Trapping the well-organized team of bank robbers in the building, the killer is now picking them off one by one.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

          A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.




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