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Plot Summary:
The death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, but his apparent supernatural powers continue. As his own life nears its end, he becomes even more violent and sadistic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, sadistic, psychotronic, weird, learning, sexploitation film
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Voices from Beyond (1991)
Plot Summary:
Giorgia Mainardi, a brutal and egoistic person, died. Noone is really interested in his death, but during his autopsy they find out he was murdered. As a voice from dead, he and his daugther try to find the murder of him... but they have to hurry, because his spirit is fading away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, epic, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Will to Die (1971)
Plot Summary:
In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, psychotronic, cult film
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Black Ribbon (2007)
Plot Summary:
A writer buys a typewriter which brings out his deepest and darkest desires.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Enigma (1987)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls boarding school to enact bloody revenge against the elitist coeds responsible for her condition.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, retro, epic, slasher, tense, serious, stylized
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11-11-11 (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife and child, an author travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur on 11/11/11.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, disturbing, tense, suspense, twisted, surprise ending
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Bloody Moon (1981)
Plot Summary:
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their wheelchair bound mother operates a boarding school for young women. Miguel becomes obsessed with one of the girls at the school, and wants to resume his incestuous relationship with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, grindhouse, retro, bloody, disturbing
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The Silent Scream (1979)
Plot Summary:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, creepy
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The Slayer (1982)
Plot Summary:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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The Nesting (1981)
Plot Summary:
A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, gothic horror, grindhouse, pastoral, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspense
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The Return (2005)
Plot Summary:
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, enigmatic, serious, tense, grindhouse, spectacular, gloomy
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The Psychic (1977)
Plot Summary:
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, suspense thriller
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Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
A murder mystery set on an island near Venice. A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, mind bending
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A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Plot Summary:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, metafiction, creepy, cult classic, horror musical, serious, realistic
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Autopsy (1975)
Plot Summary:
A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, slasher, cult classic, erotic, scary, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, bloody, gothic, psychological, creepy, cult classic
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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: satanic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, horror musical, scary, tense, mind bending
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The Order (2003)
Plot Summary:
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, gothic, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological thriller, mind bending, bleak
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Atrocious (2010)
Plot Summary:
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, psychological, splatter, creepy, spooky, surprise ending
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Paranormal Entity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were called to the scene by Thomas Finley himself. He was found inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms.After questioning, Thomas was taken into custody. In his police statement, Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later, he committed suicide.It is the opinion of those closely related to the family, that this video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mockumentary, dark, mockbuster, retro, suspense, independent film
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The House That Screamed (1969)
Plot Summary:
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, gothic, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, disturbing
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99.9 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village. She learns that he was conducting secret experiments searching for tortured souls trapped behind the energy of the living world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, dark, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, gay cinema
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The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Plot Summary:
A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, grindhouse, bloody, cult classic
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Burnt Offerings (1976)
Plot Summary:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, suspense, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher
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Deep Red (1975)
Plot Summary:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, tense
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They (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, brutal, psychological horror, classic horror
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The Nun (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2,” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, mystical, spooky, psychotronic, terrifying, tense
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The Abandoned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) and the appearance of another man who has been drawn to the farm for the same reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, dark, creepy
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The Conjuring (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 545000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, terrifying, creepy, demonic, splatter
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Gothika (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending