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Plot Summary:
Six strangers wake up in a room full of weapons. If they do not kill each other, someone they care about will die.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, experimental, disturbing, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like The Blackout Experiment (2021):
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The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Shelter (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a star-filled night, homeless Thomas seeks warm shelter. Still grieving his late wife, ruined and desperate, he comes across a vast house with the lights on and an inviting open front door. But the next morning, the premises will not let him leave. Destiny has brought Thomas to this place and now he must survive a very personal ordeal. For what appeared a safe haven turns out to be something far more malevolent. From Arrow in The Head blogger, writer and director John Fallon, a psychological horror show tapping into fears of the mind, body and soul.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, mysterious
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Dead End (2012)
Plot Summary:
Carl Foster takes off on a well-deserved weekend break with his family knowing only too well that focus on work has impacted his relationship with his wife, young son, and teenage step-daughter. But after a short but restful break in the journey Carl awakens to find himself tied and bound in an old roadside diner, his family trussed and gagged next to him, and a disparate group of dirty, disheveled, vagrant-like undesirables keeping them captive. Only time will reveal who they are and what they want, but things are not everything they might seem.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Beneath Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
Everyday, thousands of immigrants line the parking lots of hardware stores and climb into cars with strangers they've never met, all for the promise of paid work. In Beneath Us, a group of undocumented workers are lured into the home of Liz Rhodes with the promise of their biggest payday, only to discover the terrifying fate she has in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological thriller, dark
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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
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The Chamber (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew begins to understand that not all of them will escape and a fight for survival ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Phobias (2021)
Plot Summary:
Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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A Classic Horror Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Five carpoolers travel in a motorhome to reach a common destination. Night falls, and to avoid a dead animal carcass, they crash into a tree. When they come to their senses, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. The road they were traveling on has disappeared and there is only a dense, impenetrable forest and a wooden house in the middle of a clearing, which they discover is the home of a spine-chilling cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, creepy, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, psychological, bloody, perverse
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Besetment (2017)
Plot Summary:
After struggling to find employment, Amanda takes a hotel position in a small town where she ends up fighting for her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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BnB HELL (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's hunt for her missing sister ends at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Disturbing messages left by former guests suggest unsettling secrets lay buried there.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, brutal, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Incision (2020)
Plot Summary:
Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham. A deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Those Who Walk Away (2022)
Plot Summary:
Max and Avery go on their first date after meeting on a social media app. Their evening takes a perilous turn when they end up at a local haunted house, the home of ‘Rotcreep’, a sinister creature that rots your body and soul with one touch.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller
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The Eyes (2016)
Plot Summary:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Baby Blues (2008)
Plot Summary:
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, scary, dark
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Excess Flesh (2015)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Lucky (2020)
Plot Summary:
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore, anamorphic, thrilling, psychological, scary
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Lady in a Cage (1964)
Plot Summary:
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, retro, slasher
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Funhouse (2019)
Plot Summary:
When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bad ending, twist ending, suspenseful, brutal, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Dread (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, surprise ending, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, slasher
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Keeping Company (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fateful chain of events begin to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a stranger's basement.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Anonymous Killers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an eerie voice of someone outside of the room. Throughout, they use their minds to try to think as to why they are there. As time elapses the stakes and chances for survival are slim, but the question remains: who is behind this - the end reveals a startling answer.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Signal 100 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Meander (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, clever, slasher, minimal cast
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Victimized (2014)
Plot Summary:
Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Curve (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense, scenic, scary, feel good, slasher, grindhouse
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House of 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller, mind bending