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Plot Summary:
Like every year, Jim, Ray, Brad and Paul leave the town for a week to go hunting in the woods. But this year everything is different: There's not a single animal to be found, the whole forest has fallen quiet. Two female campers they meet have mysteriously disappeared the next day, leaving their whole equipment behind. And then they start to behave weird themselves... An alien power is using them for cruel psychological experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
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Truck Stop Women (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, sexual, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Stranded (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Mommy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Patty McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann -- so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" award again, she solves the problem by murdering the teacher who didn't recommend her for it. She dismisses the killing as inconsequential ("a minor accident"), but the homicide detective assigned to the case suspects her immediately, and an insurance investigator who also suspects her tries to get close to Jessica Ann to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective, cult film
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A Reflection of Fear (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, atmospheric, surreal, grindhouse, psychological thriller, twist ending, psycho sexual, ambiguous ending
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Doomwatch (1972)
Plot Summary:
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, depressing, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Murder by Phone (1982)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird, eighties
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Mr Wrong (1984)
Plot Summary:
Meg moves out of her parents' home and buys a beautiful old Jaguar in a bid for independence. She begins to get strange feelings about the car. It seems to have a presence beyond the usual "personality" attributed to eccentric old cars. Slowly she uncovers the shocking history of the car's previous owner, but not before the car exerts some tragic influence in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Pyx (1973)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Hollywood Cop (1987)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Body Harm (1988)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Beyond the Stars (1989)
Plot Summary:
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, independent film
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Ground Zero (1987)
Plot Summary:
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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Kiss or Kill (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, road movie, independent film, detective
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Deadly Force (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, slasher, independent film, grindhouse, crime thriller
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Thirst (1979)
Plot Summary:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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God Told Me To (1976)
Plot Summary:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, grindhouse, suspense, slasher, surreal, disturbing, detective
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The Vast of Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, mumblecore, horror comedy, lovecraft, mind blowing
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Extraterrestrial (2014)
Plot Summary:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, teen horror, psychological, futuristic, slasher
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UFO (2018)
Plot Summary:
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, philosophical, political, psychotronic, enigmatic, weird
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1922 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scary, emotional, dark, slasher, disturbing, splatter
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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Plot Summary:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, cult classic, scary, mind bending, serious
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, slasher, apocalyptic, cult horror, mind bending, epic, mysterious
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Long Weekend (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, natural horror, retro, atmospheric, depressing, surreal, disturbing, splatter, art house
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The Recall (2017)
Plot Summary:
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychedelic, apocalyptic, disgusting, light, surprise ending
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Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Plot Summary:
20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, dark, scary, suspenseful, exciting, mockumentary, mumblecore, spooky, light
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The Arrival (1996)
Plot Summary:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic, surprise ending, atmospheric, mystical, apocalyptic
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Plot Summary:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, minimal cast, unusual plot structure, dark, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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The Signal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, suspense, mind bending, suspenseful, mindfuck, mind blowing, psychological, tense, atmospheric
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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Plot Summary:
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, stylized, entertaining, suspense, period piece, captivating, intense, intellectual
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Prey (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the Comanche Nation in 1717, a fierce and highly skilled warrior named Naru learns the prey she is stalking is a highly evolved alien with a technologically advanced arsenal.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 219000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, slasher, tense, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, atmospheric, period piece, perverse