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Plot Summary:
Keegan Dark returns to the the heart of California's winery valleys to make peace with his long-estranged family. Instead, he finds a harrowing mystery that endangers his family's lives and livelihood.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, vintage, queer cinema
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Scream at the Devil (2015)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husbands elicit affairs and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due. Is Miriam insane or has the Devil come to collect on her promise?.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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They/Them (2022)
Plot Summary:
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, queer horror, intellectual, spooky, psychological thriller, psychological horror, slasher horror, psychological, queer cinema
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Triple Crossed (2013)
Plot Summary:
With a tour in Afghanistan behind him, war-torn Chris Jensen struggles to assimilate back to life in California. Drifting and living out of his car, he soon discovers that few are willing to deal with the remnants of a damaged career military man. Chris is self medicating; desperate to silence the echoes from the front lines. When an opportunity finally presents itself, he makes the hard decision to employ his most coveted talents honed in special ops. A job is a job and Chris knows civilian life can be just as cut-throat as time on active duty. But just how close does he have to get to Andrew Warner to secure the kill?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, psychological, sexy, captivating, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Blood Conscious (2021)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, touching, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Alpha Delta Zatan (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alpha Delta Zatan is set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a frat house, the film follows the increased paranoia between members of a fraternity as they start to disappear at the hands of a masked killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, slasher horror, queer cinema
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Eden Lodge (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple arrive at a retreat in the English countryside in the hope of saving their failing marriage. But when the people around them start to be picked off by a vicious killer, the weekend becomes a matter of saving their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cabin Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror, horror comedy, surprise ending, twist ending
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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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Playdate (2012)
Plot Summary:
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Paranormal Adoption (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple loses their only child in an accident and subsequently unknowingly adopts an innocent looking little girl with paranormal powers that she uses to fulfill her twisted desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, independent film
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Attack of the Morningside Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
When desecrated corpses and ritualistic symbols start appearing, the residents of Morningside, New Jeresey, are thrust into an unreal world of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hideout (2021)
Plot Summary:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological
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A Cry from Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sebastien is a psychological horror story about dark secrets destroying people and their families from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
Plot Summary:
After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, perverse
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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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Woe (2020)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister stumble upon their father's secret one year after his death. They soon learn that this secret may not be his alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy
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Don't Look Back (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman overcoming her traumatic past is among several witnesses who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, weird
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Seance (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the prestigious Fairfield Academy, an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, slasher, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, teen horror
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The Inherited (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Day 13 (2020)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Colton is left at home to babysit his little sister for the summer, he develops a crush on Heather, the beautiful girl who just moved into a mysterious old house across the street. He falls in love with her from afar — but also witnesses her foster father grow increasingly threatening towards her. When Colton suspects the man belongs to a Satanic cult, and is preparing to ritually murder her, he resorts to desperate measures to intervene, and learns that the truth of the situation is more horrifying than anything he had ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, tense, 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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Digging to Death (2021)
Plot Summary:
David Vanowen moves into a mysterious house and discovers a box buried in his backyard, filled with 3 million dollars and a fresh corpse. David hides the money in the house, only to be stalked by the buried body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Kiss Me, Kill Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
While confronting his unfaithful boyfriend, Dusty blacks-out. When he comes to, his boyfriend has been murdered and he's the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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After Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring break for seven college students is derailed with one wrong turn. A flat tire on a deserted road leaves them stranded after dark in the company of a menacing drifter who may or may not be trying to help.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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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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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Plot Summary:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter, scary, bloody, serious, realistic, creepy