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Plot Summary:
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spooky, experimental, avant garde
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Dark Mountain (2013)
Plot Summary:
In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman mine. Their bodies were never found... but their camera was.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mockumentary, disturbing, splatter, spooky, psychotronic, fake documentary
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The Encounter (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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The Hunt (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bow hunting enthusiast Jack Hamberg, his eight-year old stepson Clint and former news cameraman Atticus Monroe are on a mission to make a deer hunting video. All that is needed to complete the video is a "kill". Jack and Atticus reluctantly decide to trespass onto a nearby property where there may be more abundant prey. Once inside the restricted area, they come upon some frightening realizations. The hunters have become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, dark, brutal, splatter, scary, mind bending, light, awful
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Secret of Slenderman 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A year after the events of Tayna Slendermena (2013) Sergey goes hiking in the Grand Canyon of Crimea with a small group. The further in the forest the group goes, the more evident it becomes that Slender Man has returned to finish the job.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, independent film, amateur film
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Area 51 Confidential (2011)
Plot Summary:
People from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
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Occupants (2015)
Plot Summary:
A documentarian named Annie has roped her husband into a project that involves setting up cameras throughout their house. Complications arise when the cameras start showing that same couple in an alternate universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Brazil, France, Philippines, Singapore, UK, Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, psychotronic
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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RWD (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two men went searching for ghosts, but they found themselves instead.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark, light, surprise ending, scary, bleak, mockumentary, independent film
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Day of the Animals (1977)
Plot Summary:
The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, natural horror, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film, tension, serious, suspense
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Eyes in the Dark (2010)
Plot Summary:
Secret video files just discovered on an FBI server prove that the government has been hiding unexplained disappearances and a dangerous presence in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Phase IV (1974)
Plot Summary:
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, natural horror, psychotronic, mystical, atmospheric, surreal, splatter, art house, grindhouse, deep
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Beneath (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, slasher, mumblecore, psychotronic, independent film
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Man Vs. (2015)
Plot Summary:
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, mockumentary, horror comedy
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YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological horror, lovecraft, slasher, surreal, demonic, grindhouse
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Unaware (2010)
Plot Summary:
In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic, mockumentary, tense, suspense, scary, exciting, rough
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
He’s one of the hardest working filmmakers in the genre business.......So what’s HATCHET man Adam Green been up to this past year apart from working on his sit-com ‘Holliston’, writing KILLER PIZZA and prepping EXORCISM ON CROOKED LAKE? The answer is this documentary starting out exploring genre-based monster art and then taking an odd turn into the blurring of fantasy and reality. Because halfway through producing this treatise with cinematographer Will Barratt at his L.A. ArieScope Pictures offices, they are contacted by former policeman William Dekker who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. That they live in world just below our own named The Marrow and he knows where one of the entrances to this dark hidden universe is. Green of course is intrigued and so the monster hunting expedition begins… to become something else far more frightening than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, scary
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Banshee Chapter (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs run by the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, lovecraft, disturbing, psychological, spooky, suspense, surreal, satanic, splatter, psychological horror
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Willow Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, cult classic, spooky, tense
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Intersect (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Children of Sorrow (2012)
Plot Summary:
Simon Leach is a very, very sick man. Thriving on despair, pain, and panic, he unites a group of broken and desperate people in the middle of the desert. He showers them with the love and affection they’re so desperate for, but Simon has a much greater plan for his followers.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, dark, captivating, cult horror, independent film, scary, realistic
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Prophecy (1979)
Plot Summary:
A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, mystic, offbeat
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Tape 407 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, surprise ending, fake documentary
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Evidence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, mockumentary, slasher, spooky, crying, independent film, weird
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The Bay (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary, suspenseful, absurd, atmospheric, thought provoking, stylized, realistic
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Devil's Pass (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual, creepy, mockumentary, harsh, natural horror, psychological
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Cloverfield (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 416000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft, apocalyptic, rough, bleak, clever