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Plot Summary:
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, rough, bleak, exciting, scary, slasher, psychological horror
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Solstice (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl uncovers a disturbing secret about her twin sister, who committed suicide just a few months before.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, creepy, slasher, scary, serious
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Night of a 1000 Hours (2016)
Plot Summary:
When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Family Demons (2009)
Plot Summary:
When an abused teenage girl murders her alcoholic mother, the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, scary
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Circle of Eight (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, psychological thriller, mysterious, scary, exciting
Similar in 76%
Extremity (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with a severely troubled past who signs up for an extreme haunt called Perdition. She believes that putting herself through Perdition's nightmarish trials will help her exorcise her internal traumas, but has no way of knowing just how shocking her ordeal will be-or what dark secrets buried in her psyche will emerge. From Director: Anthony DiBlasi "The Last Shift & Dread" And Producer: "Midnight Meat Train".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, intellectual, extreme horror, dark drama
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Not Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin on the East Coast. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Echoes of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dabbe 6: The Return (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cardiologist tries to pinpoint the cause of her mother's sudden death as her sister, who witnessed it, claims malevolent demons are at play.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Maligno (2016)
Plot Summary:
After causing a bloody slaughter in a hospital, the most cruel and powerful forest spirit is trapped in a pavilion, after a ritual of witchcraft. Decades later, the wall is broke, waking the evil force. When a young teen is possessed by the spirit, her mother must find a way to stop him before it takes her life and regain its catastrophic murderous power.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Wraith (2017)
Plot Summary:
After living in an old mansion for almost 10 years a family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them. A super-natural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing
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Wraith (2022)
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Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Grindstone Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly purchased farmhouse, strange occurrences begin to happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
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The Stairs (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1997, 11 year old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers, set off into the very same woods. Unfortunately for them, they come face to face with the very same set of stairs Jesse discovered all those years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Cruel Peter (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Altar (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, demonic, esoteric, offbeat, surprise ending
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Driftwood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) and his brutal young henchman, Yates (Talan Torriero).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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One Missed Call (2008)
Plot Summary:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, psychological, mind bending, dark, mind blowing, terrifying
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The Messengers (2007)
Plot Summary:
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, tense, serious, spooky, twisted
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The Village of Shadows (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Lucas Frantz invites his friends to visit his hometown Village de Ruiflec, they head in two cars to spend the weekend. The driver Hugo Kerimba, Marion Valeyre, Stan and his girlfriend Katia Brezinsky follows the car of Lucas, David Fontana, his girlfriend Lila Paredes, Marion's estranged sister Emma Valeyre and Mathias through the lonely winding road in a rainy night. Out of the blue, Hugo steps on the gas and overtakes the other car. Sooner, Lucas, David, Lila, Emma and Mathias find Hugo's car left on the road with the doors open and the passengers missing. They walk to Ruiflec to find shelter and a telephone to call the other group. But they learn that they are trapped in Ruiflec and an evil entity does not allow them to leave the village.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, bleak
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The Maid (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, dark fantasy, contemplative
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We Are Still Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: dark, atmospheric, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, demonic, romantic, retro, psychological
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense, psychological, rough, bleak, demonic, splatter
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Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, dark, demonic, bleak, slasher, spooky
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The Woman in Black (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, terrifying, dark, slasher
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Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, creepy, frightening, stylized, psychological, bleak, serious
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Grave Encounters (2011)
Plot Summary:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, frightening, suspense, demonic, intense, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense
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Silent Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living 'darkness' that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, creepy, disturbing, gothic horror, suspense
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The Canal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, surreal, psychological thriller, spooky
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Shutter (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, creepy, psychological
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Mirrors (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, demonic, intense, psychological, creepy, suspense, twist ending