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Plot Summary:
Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Deadly Waters (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young man falls in love with a seductive, sultry, young woman he meets on the beach. The more he falls for her, the more he will learn the dangers of falling in love with a siren.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Cursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this movie spinoff of "The Cursed", reporter Im Jin-Hee receives a mysterious call while on a live radio program - the strange voice warning her about a murder happening soon. After the call, people begin to be murdered left and right. The murderers are "jaechaui" - corpses that can walk and talk like just like humans. One thing separates them from humans, though: they are just puppets being manipulated by someone far scarier than themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Source of Shadows (2020)
Plot Summary:
This horror anthology film depicts ten tales of horror from twelve visionary directors as they take us on a journey to experience one of humanity’s most carnal fears; the fear of the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, tense, bleak, gothic horror, disturbing, exciting
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H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House (2021)
Plot Summary:
Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, a graduate student unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mystical, tense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, lovecraft
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Ghost Game (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ghost Game tells the story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They're brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge prison twenty years before. Thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed there during the Cambodian war in the 1970s. Now the museum is abandoned, an.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heebie Jeebies (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (2019)
Plot Summary:
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, mystical, tense
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Makmum (2019)
Plot Summary:
While in the dormitory, the resident of the dormitory is terrorized by a supernatural creature. There is a kind of supernatural creature called "Makmum" (the follower) that follows them during prayer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Devil's Tail (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young nurse begins her shift at an old city hospital. After a strange apparition one of the oldest nurse tells her that a patient, Mr. Moore, entered the hospital a few years ago. His body was completely burned after a fire. Mr. Moore was operated urgently by the doctors. But no one wanted to assist him. The pain and drugs had driven him mad... One night one of the nurses went to his room but his bed was empty ... Nothing was heard from him anymore. A bell interrupts the story. The call comes from Mr. Moore´s room….
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Plot Summary:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Sijjin 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. And this beings don't want anyone in the house, but Saadet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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General Cemetery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of his father. With the help of his friends from school, encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Medium (2021)
Plot Summary:
A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy, demonic, splatter, mockumentary, weird, fake documentary, asian horror
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Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A revamping, if you will, of the 1980's classic horror movie showcase, hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, double entendre, campy
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Crooked House (2008)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, gothic, slasher, period drama
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Dark Stories (2019)
Plot Summary:
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to haunt our apartments, houses, cafes, museums and other places of daily life? What would we do? How would we react? DARK STORIES tells five tales of gripping terror in a fantastic anthology where horror, suspense and humour intertwine with stark reality to make us shiver with fear! Join us for a Ghoul’s Feast, the Last Judgment before the impending Apocalypse, a surprise package from the deliveryman, a forensic scientist confronted by his zombie victim and the worst Moroccan monster nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Korean Ghost Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
A series of 8 one-act dramas. It is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which aired first on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. This marks the return of the series after nine years.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Sleep Tight (2016)
Plot Summary:
A horror anthology following a young woman determined to document the first hand accounts of people who have survived unimaginable horrors that range from the real to the supernatural. The deeper she gets in collecting the stories of these survivors the more she is confronted by the memory of her own nightmare that she cannot escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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Paranormal 911 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A shocking number of 911 emergencies end in paranormal encounters. Paranormal 911 explores these events through eye-witness accounts of the first responders who lived them. This gripping drama-doc takes viewers into the unexpected paranormal encounters of first responders.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: scary, mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust (2007)
Plot Summary:
Internet-produced sequel to 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a cult of old witch ladies, he embarks on a mission to exorcise the body of Julie from the evil soul of La Llorona.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, tense, mockumentary, weird
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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a Basque folk tale, ”Patxi herrementaria,” collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological diabolic creatures, battling to capture the souls of the unwitting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, mystical, suspense, dark fantasy, period piece, exciting, suspenseful, spooky, folk tale
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Fear Itself (2008)
Plot Summary:
A television series broken down into thirteen separate sixty-minute films from premiere horror writers and directors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, bloody, dark, dark fairy tale, spooky
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Mother Krampus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, mystical, suspense, dark, mysterious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy