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Plot Summary:
Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named "Kandisha".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, islamic, lovecraft
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Demon House (2019)
Plot Summary:
As mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home, referred to as a “Portal to Hell,” Ghost Adventures host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew then become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history… the “house of 200 demons.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Documentary, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, religious horror, creepy
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House of Bad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family house, its painful memories quickly become too real to fight off. Three sisters with a history, a suitcase full of stolen drugs, and a family house with a dark secret is the recipe for terror in House of Bad.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological, realistic
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The Bridge Curse (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four years after five students mysteriously committed suicide after taking part in a courage test on the ghost bridge in Donghu university, a reporter and a cinematographer are back to that place and try to get everything clear.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, captivating, scary, surreal
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Imago mortis (2009)
Plot Summary:
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, wild
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May the Devil Take You Too (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, Alfie and Nara try to continue their lives. However, Alfie's worst nightmare has just begun and the dangers that await are increasingly threatening.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Night Rain (2022)
Plot Summary:
An actress is unwittingly hired by her stalker to make an independent movie about a famous unsolved Hollywood murder, but she and her group of young indie filmmakers soon find themselves the subject of their own terror.
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Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Awakening (2014)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of a devastating courtroom defeat, James moves his wife and son back to his hometown to begin a new life. From the very first day in their new home, the family experiences strange paranormal events. They seek help from a priest, who discovers that James is hiding the darkest secret of all.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Lockdown Hauntings (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers, prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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The Unfolding (2016)
Plot Summary:
It is 2016 and a fearful world seems to be on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. A researcher in psychical events and his girlfriend travel to deepest Dartmoor to investigate a centuries-old building. What they unlock and discover is way more than they could have ever bargained for. An exciting first feature from newcomer Eugene McGing, who expertly takes familiar tropes and gives them a fresh spin in this genuinely terrifying haunted house tale.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ghosthunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of their own loses his wife and daughter at the hands of a serial killer, a team of ghost hunters is determined to capture the spirits of the loved ones so their spirits can finally rest in peace. But as the team goes deeper into the house, the ghosts become more hostile, and the group discovers the true secrets of the house and its murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, serious, psychological, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007)
Plot Summary:
A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, esoteric, psychological horror, scary
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Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vine, a disillusioned demon, is forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl. Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is destroyed. The demon population must rise up and take all necessary steps for survival or their species will cease to exist. The battle for the Earth has begun. Vine, a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl, the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ideal (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past and present begin to blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson on history one can't find in books.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Inhabitants (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple gets more than they bargained for when they buy an historic bed and breakfast in New England only to discover that the old house is hiding a dark secret within its walls.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, 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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A Haunting in Salem (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film, surprise ending
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Diary of an Exorcist - Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lucas devotes his life to church work after a tragedy. When an exorcism case gets out of control, he has to figure out who is under the Devil's influence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Harvesting (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Mara (2018)
Plot Summary:
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, mystical, tense, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, demonic, spooky
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, fake documentary
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The Bad Nun (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events. Aesha goes to an isolated b&b in Kent after her mom books her in so she can get some head space for her studies. In the night Aesha is visited by a nun at the door who will progressively begin to show her true colours as the night unfolds - As the nun continues to bother Aesha at the door, Aesha begins to question her surroundings in this isolated suspense horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Spectres (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college friends on a weekend trip to the back woods of Kentucky trespass through an Native American burial ground, they unwittingly unleash the wrath of an ancient evil. As they experience increasing levels of peril and hauntings, they discover there is a place where technology and evil cross paths, and both are more than deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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They Wait (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After Sam is hospitalized, Sarah consults with a pharmacist who's well-informed about Chinese mythology and who tells her that supernatural forces threaten her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Sound (2017)
Plot Summary:
A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bangkok Haunted (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not listed in the order from the truck of Transportation Company owned by Mr. Anake. She calls her former Professor Arkom, who identifies the markings for good luck that she describes and tells the story of the orphan Paga. In 1917, the renowned music teacher Jangwah-Chuem and his wife Peng raise the beautiful Paga with their deformed son Gnod. Paga is a good and loving sister and daughter and becomes a great beautiful dancer. When Paga falls in love for the handsome Fond, the jealous Gnod and she vanish from their village. Jieb investigates the mystery of their disappearance and discloses the eerie truth with tragic consequences. The second tale: The gorgeous Pam receives a sample from her next-door neighbor of a love potion that makes the user irresistible to men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, mind bending
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We Go On (2016)
Plot Summary:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, scary, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, psychological, atmospheric, intellectual
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The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cute