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Plot Summary:
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, sexy, bleak, psychological, queer horror, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Neverknock (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1986, three teens were brutally murdered after knocking on the door of 59 Oakwood Lane. The killer was never found. Over the next forty years, rumors turned to legend, and while few will admit to believing the stories, kids are still warned never knock on the door of 59 Oakwood Lane for fear of what may answer. On this Halloween night, Grace and her friends are going to wish they’d heeded the warnings and never knocked… for the Neverknock….
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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The Changeover (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura Chant. 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic
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Blood Hunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
An elevated genre horror film about a single mother who wakes up in a medical facility to find that everyone is dead and she's nine months pregnant. As she struggles to escape she discovers the facility's secret, they've tampered with the boundaries of death and brought people back to life, but those who've returned, have not returned alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Devil's Prey (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of young adults attend an all-night rave, only to discover that it's a trap for a satanic cult that requires flesh for bloody sacrifices.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, captivating, suspense, satanic
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Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree in a local park where many horrible acts occurred. The locals have given the tree the name Devils Tree because of its urban legends of mass murders, satanic rituals, and paranormal activity. She decides this is the perfect story to finish her thesis on. As Sam digs deeper into the realm of the tree, she begins to uncover the truth about these urban legends. Struggling with her own demons of her past, Samantha is confronted with a the true demon of the tree and now must expose the truth in hopes to set it free. In the end, Samantha founds the real reason why evil is so rooted at The Devils Tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, demonic, psychotronic
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Evangeline (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and left for dead, Evangeline finds herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare, where she is caught between salvation and vengeance. But to save herself, Evangeline discovers she must make the most horrifying choice of all….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, scary, surprise ending, tense, suspense, captivating, melancholic, erotic, queer horror
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The Convent (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized
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Muse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, dark, dark fantasy, independent film, mystic
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Soul to Keep (2018)
Plot Summary:
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, splatter, queer horror, demonic
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5ive Girls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, queer horror, serious
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Kill (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six strangers awake to find themselves the new tenants of a mysterious old house. Terrorized by insane Tiki-men in masks and taunted by their deranged captors,it soon becomes clear that only one singular action will save them: Kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, teen horror
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What Keeps You Alive (2018)
Plot Summary:
Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, queer horror, psychological horror, tense, disturbing, captivating, scary, psychological, psychological thriller, bloody
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A.M.I. (2019)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen year old girl forms a co-dependent relationship with an artificial intelligence on her phone and goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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If a Tree Falls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Siblings, Brad and Lisa Carpenter, along with two lifelong family friends, Will and Vanessa, set out road-tripping to an annual family reunion. They make the decision to find a place to stop and camp for the night. What ensues is a violent disturbance by six masked assailants, without motive or reason. The group find themselves living a night of psychological games and physical terror, and as morning dawns; the reality of what will come is more terrifying than anything the group could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, grindhouse, independent film, tension, vintage
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Anomalous (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, thrilling
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The Drownsman (2014)
Plot Summary:
After almost drowning in a lake, Madison finds herself bound to a life of fear. Unable to describe what happened to her during the moments she was underwater, she begins to develop hydrophobia: an abnormal fear of water. Crippled by her post trauma, Madison attempts to shut out the world but her fear intensifies and she is faced with the vision of a dark figure that haunts her day and night. After watching her struggle for one year with the phobia and visions, Madison's four friends attempt an unconventional intervention in which they accidentally open a floodgate to a dark place where none of them are safe. As Madison and her friends dive deeper into the dark history of this figure that haunts them, it reaches out and begins dragging them to a horrifying place that they can never come back from.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller
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The Ideal (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past and present begin to blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson on history one can't find in books.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Old Ways (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018)
Plot Summary:
When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, atmospheric, bleak, surprise ending, folk tale
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The Incubus (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, demonic
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Monster Portal (2022)
Plot Summary:
A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, lovecraft
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She Creature (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mythical, tense, fairy tale, mystical, gothic, suspense
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Hideaway (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, light, cult classic, serious, psychological thriller, gothic
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The Hallow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, creepy, tense, disturbing, light, fairy tale
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Let Her Out (2016)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, psychological thriller, spooky
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He's Out There (2018)
Plot Summary:
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, dark, bloody, spooky, slasher horror
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. The terrifying truth is that he could be anywhere, or anybody. In this shocking, blood-soaked finale to Jason's carnage-ridden reign of terror, the horrible secret of his unstoppable killing instinct is finally revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, sexy, surprise ending, suspense, retro, controversial, anime, cult horror
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Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, gothic, splatter, frightening, dark, suspenseful, bad ending, atmospheric, intense