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Plot Summary:
Two brothers are plunged into the realm of psychic horror, one tormented by a stalker, and the other involved with a girl whose home is the site of eerie occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending
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Dead Waves (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending
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Karaoke Terror (2003)
Plot Summary:
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Unholy Women (2006)
Plot Summary:
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, scary, dark fantasy, dark fairy tale, spooky, asian horror
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The Chasing World (2008)
Plot Summary:
Teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Loner (2008)
Plot Summary:
A student becomes a recluse in response to her best friend's suicide and locks herself in her room. She believes that someone is in the room with her. Her alarmed family hires a psychologist to intervene.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Scare 2 Die (2008)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Kan Au (Sam Lee) owes a big sum of money, and needs to go on a winning streak soon or the loan sharks will take the interest from his hide. Luckily, Kan finds a blessed coin that allows him to draws the unbeatable "13 Unique Wonders" hand of mahjong on 13 consecutive nights, which should be enough for him to pay his debts. The problem: every time he uses the coin to win,somebody dies a gruesome, gory death. Meanwhile, fetching Luk Wing (Elanne Kwong) wakes up one morning to discover her family being eaten! Everyone around her has become a zombie, and Wing has to pick up an axe and fight back, or her heart will be come lunch for the living dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Death Water (2006)
Plot Summary:
Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure (Haruka Igawa) visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word "Death Water" written on it. Nearby are blood-stained scissors, and his eyes are squashed. She has no idea that this death is just the beginning of a horrendous nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Enbalming (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sinister, detective, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, cult film
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The Wall Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
The wall man is a strange wall-dwelling creature that is neither human nor ghost.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending
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The Sublet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Sublet is a suspense driven psychological thriller about Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby alone in an odd sublet apartment. As her husband neglects her to focus on his career, Joanna questions her sanity as she discovers a violent past to the apartment and suspects that the building may be haunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tragic ending, independent film, psychological thriller, exciting
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Sumpah pocong di sekolah (2008)
Plot Summary:
When three teenage boys hire a stripper and film her taking in a classroom they get into big trouble.They end up pocong swearing that they had nothing to do with it.By lying they unleashed an evil spirit that wants to see them dead sooner rather than later.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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Possessed (1983)
Plot Summary:
An insane man is shot dead by two cops, Kung and Hsiao, after he refused to listen to them and stabbed a woman dead. After the encounter, the two cops always strange things and Hsiaos girlfriend is also haunted. To reduce the fear of hiring police a Taoist to sort out this problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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A Resurrection (2013)
Plot Summary:
A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, crying, psychotronic, iconic
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All Night Long 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, brutal, bloody, heavy, terrifying, extreme horror, banned, banned film, cult film
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The Last Supper (2005)
Plot Summary:
A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret in THE LAST SUPPER. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a seedy restaurant with some highly dubious special dishes. Murder and mayhem ensue as the demented doctor continues to find new and gruesome ways to satisfy his appetite.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, humorous, surprise ending
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Chain Mail (2015)
Plot Summary:
A usual chain mail is forwarded to a group of people. Some pass it while others ignore. One dies and is followed by series of sudden and unexplainable deaths of others. Soon after, a revelation begins to unfold, the chain mail is cursed and so she has to find the origin and mystery behind to stop the misfortunes it may cause to anyone who fails to pass it before another life perish again. Sandra also suspects Anne is behind the tragic incidents that happened to their friends. Will she break the curse before it's too late or will she become one of the victims?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, slasher, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic, tension, psychological horror, psychological
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Detective Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, surreal, detective, crime drama, scary, rough
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My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the murders at the Rollerdome, Skye Rotter leaves town in search of a normal life. Reunited with the mother who abandoned her as a child, Skye's dream of a happier life starts to take shape - until her serial killer father returns.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, realistic
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Body (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the illusion that Chon sees in his dreams, so she introduces him to a psychiatrist. Chon tries to prove that what he sees is not just the illusion. Finally, Chon is right when some clues in his nightmares lead him to a morgue number 19. Now, the story of the dead body inside the morgue is gradually revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, serious, bloody, surprise ending
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Id (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man known as the "Murderer" wanders through the woods. The sound of water flowing deep underground fills his head.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, cult film
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The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
The third entry in the unrelated series which began with Shiryo No Wana (1988), Toshiharu Ikeda's bloody horror film deals with a policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery. Less grisly than its predecessors, this installment is perhaps the best-scripted of the three (all were written by Takashi Ishii), but all are arguably among the best Japanese horror films of the decade. Ishii is best known for the stylish Tenshi No Harawata series which began in 1978, one of which was also directed by Ikeda.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense
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Danika (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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The Spiral (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sequel to cult film
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Plot Summary:
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark fairy tale
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Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Vietnam
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, surprise ending
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The Gallows (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, dark, intense, suspenseful, spooky, surprise ending, psychological, mockumentary
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The Shortcut (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, dark, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, teen
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Old (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious, tense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, dark, captivating, disturbing, retro
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Summer of 84 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, slasher, retro, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, scary, tense, horror comedy
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The Empty Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a horrific secret that puts his life—and the lives of those close to him—in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful, detective, scary, slasher, philosophical, atmospheric