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Plot Summary:
Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Intruder (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1983 before the giant Suvarnabhumi international airport was built, the neglected and unoccupied area was called "King Cobra Swamp" by the locals. As building commenced, a huge old Banyan tree blocked the constructions path. A work crew call in a mechanical digger to remove the tree. As the roots are torn from the ground 1000s of cobra bones explode from the earth tearing them to pieces. After the passing of the grim massacre, witnesses who survived tell strange stories about and evil Cobra spirit. Years later when a new apartment block was built on the ground, Nin, the buildings owner has to face the horrifying matter when hundreds of Cobra hell bent on killing every living person in the apartment appear. People believe that again it is the vengeance of the Spirit. How will they survive, when being hunted by vengeance without mercy?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Blood Cousins (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the anniversary of their grandmother's death, four cousins, as close as brothers, reconnect on a road trip to the Texas Rio Grande Valley to pay respects to the woman who helped raise them. Hidden beneath their friendship, the truth of their childhood surfaces to reveal a darkness in the family that won't stop until the cousin's lives are changed forever. Blending comedy, Mexican folklore and terror, Blood Cousins puts a new spin on revenge films and defines the word,'retribution'.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, hispanic
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Shake, Rattle & Roll 13 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An old man Lando (Ronnie Lazaro) has buried something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white people. The chieftain (Manu Respall) demands Lando to give back something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely killed him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Tales from the Dark Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Beacon (2017)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned paramour tracks her lover down to a distant lighthouse. When she finds her beyond hope, she must find a way to save a child from the malignant spirit of her deceased father and the madness of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror, queer horror
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The Day of the Lord (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this horror movie, a retired priest haunted by his sins is pulled back into the darkness when a friend begs him to help his possessed daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Ghost Rituals (2014)
Plot Summary:
After incurring debts from his failed business venture in China, Zong Hua (Cheung) returns to Malaysia after a decade's hiatus. The demoralised Zong Hua faces problems finding a job and tries hard to get used to things at home, including his estranged relationship with his step-father, Xiaotian, who runs a Cantonese opera troupe, and half-sister, Jing Jing (Cathryn Lee). Jing Jing is hostile towards Zong Hua as she always has the impression that the death of their mother was caused by the excessive fights between Zong Hua and his step-father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Know Fear (2021)
Plot Summary:
After discovering an ancient book of the occult, a family activates a dangerous ritual forcing each of them to communicate with and fight a demonic force in their own unique way: to see it, hear it or speak to it.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Among Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of their young son, a couple desperately flees to a remote lake house to escape the unrelenting haunting following them only to discover the mysterious entity is still very much a part of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dark Image (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Palace of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following in the footsteps of her late fiancée, who drowned under mysterious circumstances, Rebecca (played by Katie Savoy) and her film crew are in China making a documentary about the Chinese Ghost Festival. There, she learns of a story about a concubine Chan Ju Chi who is violently murdered and thrown into a well by the head concubine Ping Wei (Played by JuJu Chan) within the secret grounds of a palace. Legend has it that the Chan Ju Chi has risen to become a "jiangshi", killing innocent people in the hope of taking over their bodies. Things take a turn when a worker is attacked in a decrepit well within an old palace. Rebecca tries to piece together the mystery behind the legend as one by one the people she knows are gruesomely murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Coldwood (2012)
Plot Summary:
Single mother Ashley travels to Alaska to work with her Uncle Clive, a con man swindling money from people who believe their homes are haunted. As Ashley tackles her own demons the team must face real supernatural forces beyond anything they've ever experienced.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Invited (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided there for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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The Lockdown Hauntings (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers, prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Demon Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marta used to be a recognized and successful psychic, but after a dramatic experience, she loses faith in her gift and develops agoraphobia. She couldn't see the devilish side of her rapper, Mario, and now, Marta is afraid that Mario will stalk her again. As soon as she released from the asylum, she moves to Monica's uncle apartment. There, she feels safe. But soon, she has trouble with her crazy neighbors. And if this wasn't enough, a spectrum starts to haunt her, making her life impossible. Marta will have to fight against all these difficulties and manage to get her gift back before Mario finds her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The House That Never Dies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The House That Never Dies II (2017)
Plot Summary:
A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The bloody events of the past drags everyone working on the project into a dark abyss.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Djinn (2013)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emirates. Unknown to the couple, their new luxury apartment block, Al Hamra, was built on the site of an old abandoned fishing village of the same name. Legend has it the village was abandoned after manevolant beings haunted its inhabitants. Unsettled by her new surroundings and the eerie hallways of Al Hamra, Khalid worries his wife is failing to battle her personal demons – but could it be something far more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Hellcome Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family moves into an old house, unaware of its diabolic, bloody history. The film features two separate stories from different time periods: the Villareal family from the present time, and the Domingo family who lived in the same house back in the 90s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Inhuman Kiss (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a far-away village, lived an innocent teenage girl, "Sai" who later discovered herself inheriting the curse of "Krasue". At night, her head would detach from her body and hunts for flesh and blood. Villagers are terrified by the deaths of their livestocks and that is when the Krasue hunt begins. "Jerd" a friend joined the hunt with an unknown reason while "Noi", the childhood friend who had just came back to the village decided to stand beside Sai despite knowing the horrifying truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy
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Queen of Spades (2021)
Plot Summary:
According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. Four teenagers summon the Queen of Spades, but they could never imagine the horrors that await them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Our Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man with spiritualist powers is told by his mentor that a demonic entity is returning to destroy his daughter's soul, and that he should take drastic measures to prevent this from happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, surreal, psychological horror, psychological
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Occurrence at Mills Creek (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl awakens to a nightmare as her pleas to be seen and heard by her sister are taken as supernatural occurrences in this stylistic and suspenseful short that is now a full-length feature film.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Return (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is freed, relocated to her own flat and given a chance to be independent. Once alone things are not what they all seem and when her nightmares turn real she questions her state of mind before she is left to face her demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
A collection of gut-twisting and nerve-shredding tales, all Frankstein’d together to form a feature-length monster of the best and bloodiest in short-film horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Observance (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Intruders (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the traumatic loss of her mother, a teenaged girl tries to uncover the dark secrets behind her new home, in spite of her father's disbelief.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, spooky