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Plot Summary:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, mockumentary, suspense, clever
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House of Voices (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
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Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, frightening, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing
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Reincarnation (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, spooky, surprise ending, mind bending, dark, slasher
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One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, slasher, surprise ending, detective
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Premonition (2004)
Plot Summary:
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, scary
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The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal, slasher, suspense, disturbing, controversial, scary
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
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Three (2002)
Plot Summary:
Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and discovers her mutilated body in a large bag in his home (Korea). The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires, deaths, physical pain and a little girl to be possessed (Thailand). Going Home: A father goes in search of his missing son and is abducted by a strange man. The strangers wife has died of cancer three years prior but he keeps her in his apartment under the impression she will 'wake up' (Hong Kong).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, surreal, dark fairy tale, serious
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Sorum (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, serious
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Spider Forest (2004)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is that two people died in Spider Forest. Detective CHOI, KANG Min's friend, finds a couple brutally murdered at a cottage in the forest, just like KANG Min described. As the couple found dead at the cottage are identified as CHOI Jong-phil, his senior from work, and HWANG Soo-young, his girlfriend, KANG Min becomes both a witness and key suspect in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, mind bending, disturbing, mindfuck, mind blowing, erotic, psychological thriller
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A Dark Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, spooky, psychological thriller, art house, religious horror, scary, atmospheric
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, inspirational, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Retribution (2006)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, detective, crime drama, cult classic
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, cult horror, spooky
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Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, horror comedy
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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, splatter
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One Missed Call (2003)
Plot Summary:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark fantasy, creepy, frightening, slasher
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Ring (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy, suspense, psychological, twist ending, intense
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Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
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Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, splatter, art house, tense, serious
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Noroi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, serious, demonic, spooky, atmospheric, slasher, twisted, mockumentary
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The Grudge 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surreal, stylized, psychological, serious, creepy
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Plot Summary:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, neo noir, suspense, lovecraft, scary, suspenseful, dark
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The Canal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, surreal, psychological thriller, spooky
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Gozu (2003)
Plot Summary:
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, psychedelic, dark comedy, mindfuck, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
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Audition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, suspense
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Session 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak, suspenseful, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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The Grudge (2004)
Plot Summary:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim - Karen must find away to break the spell before she becomes the spirit's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, terrifying, slasher, stylized