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Get Out (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined
Duration: 104 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 673000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Plot tags: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, survival, interracial romance, brainwashing, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, body swapping, african american protagonist, manipulation, neurosurgeon, psycho, secret society, twists and turns, interracial relations, racist, abduction, satire, psychopath, terror, disappearance
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
After an epic 40-minute one-take zombie-movie we get to watch behind-the-scenes of how it came to be: a comedy of errors with overly dedicated actresses, clumsy crew, arrogant directors and a lots of trials and tribulations
Duration: 96 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Plot tags: zombie, found footage, father daughter relationship, filmmaking, film set, director, blood, producer, zombie attack, walking dead, virus, dark humor, undead, japanese girl, infection, stoner, fear, supernatural being, morality, humour, disease, humanity, asian, infected, guts
It (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 592000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, evil clown, fear, monster, small town, stephen king, villain, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil, children, bullying, school, teenager, murderer, death, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, child killer, balloon, death of brother, asthma
Thelma (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Plot tags: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, university, bird, teenage girl, faith, female student, supernatural power, hysteria, lesbian attraction, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, first lesbian experience, disappearance, epilepsy, psychokinesis, christian family, snake, healing power, religion, adam and eve, loneliness, cigarette smoking, father daughter relationship
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways. Soon, the full scope of Martin's intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long-forgotten transgression that will shatter his domestic bliss forever
Duration: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 173000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Plot tags: psychopath, revenge, blackmail, surgeon, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, recovering alcoholic, desperation, dead father, hospital, heart surgery, father daughter relationship, paralysis, supernatural, superstition, cardiologist, absurdism, refusing to eat, teenager, moral dilemma, torture, cursed
Justice League Dark (2017)
Plot Summary:
Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains
Duration: 75 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: batman, superhero, supernatural, justice league, occult, creature, justice, destiny, anti hero, monster, superman, comic book, good versus evil, superhero team, supernatural power, transformation, superpower, ghost, demon, hallucination, crystal, multiverse, green lantern, hunting, hunter
Marrowbone (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live
Duration: 110 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Plot tags: ghost, mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, abandoned house, sibling relationship, murder, death of mother, schizophrenic, split personality, attic, brother sister relationship, violence, loss of mother, secret, murder of family, haunted house, family tragedy, learning the truth, father, psychopath, family relations, psychiatrist, mentally unstable, isolation
Happy Death Day (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity
Duration: 96 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time loop, time travel, murderer, alternate timeline, college, college student, mystery killer, twists and turns, dying repeatedly, murder, masked killer, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, sorority, suicide by hanging, sorority girl, stalking, hospital, alternate reality, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, characters murdered one by one, multiple outcomes, repeated scene
Mother! (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence
Duration: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Plot tags: surrealism, symbolism, vandalism, uninvited guest, cannibalism, pregnant woman, brutality, riot, husband wife relationship, nightmare, death of son, death, pregnancy, writers, house, baby, blood, writer's block, macabre, poet, violence, brother brother relationship, occult, cruelty, supernatural
Super Dark Times (2017)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: high school, teenager, murder, friendship, nightmare, marijuana, katana, sword, bicycle, coming of age, police, love triangle, neighbor, violence, party, loss of innocence, panic, cycling, insomnia, serial killer, suburbs, psychopath, youth, trap, feud
Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected
Duration: 104 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 247000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: space travel, space, mars, outer space, space station, monster, alien, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, first contact, extraterrestrial life, space exploration, science runs amok, death, research, evil alien, science, deep space, trapped in space, space mission, scientist, danger, space and aliens, space shuttle
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Plot Summary:
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: ghost, evil doll, supernatural horror, supernatural, doll, nun, demonic possession, demon, haunted house, devil, spirit, orphan, missing child, evil spirit, girl, children, priest, loss of daughter, haunted, haunting, exorcism, possession, little girl, hide and seek, pursuit
Gerald's Game (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: stephen king, survival, childhood trauma, hallucination, mind game, alone, perseverance, sex game, death, split personality, childhood memory, symbolism, child abuse, eclipse, escape, memories, survivor, dog attack, psychological torture, necrophiliac, marriage, dog, terror, trapped, corpse
Terrified (2017)
Plot Summary:
Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires
Duration: 87 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina
Plot tags: macabre, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, paranormal phenomena, reanimated corpse, haunted house, dead child, living dead, supernatural, death of boy, fear, zombie, ghost, mythical creature, swimming, freak, swimming pool, supernatural power, suburbs, suburban life, gore, terror, supernatural horror, american horror, haunted
Satan's Slaves (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the death of Rini's mother, something is disturbing her family
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Plot tags: satanic cult, occult, ghost, cemetery, funeral, sign language, money problems, absent parent, radio, supernatural, muslim, living dead, death of mother, death by drowning, brother brother relationship, woman in a wheelchair, repeated scene, rescue, satanism, grave, terror, zombie, teenager, musician, sect
The Endless (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought
Duration: 111 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time loop, brothers, cosmic horror, brother brother relationship, suicide, ufo, supernatural, brother, childhood trauma, camp, danger, human nature, time travel, time, lake, haunted by the past, ghost, violence, tragedy, life is a bitch, life & death, good versus evil, social relations, macabre, sect
Ghost Stories (2017)
Plot Summary:
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life
Duration: 98 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Plot tags: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural horror, religion, dishonesty, supernatural, professor, car accident, storytelling, journalist, mental disorder, atheism, crucifix, adaptation, character study, witch, teenager, exorcism, writers, sad ending, illusion, ghost story, fear, paradox, creature
Creep 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape
Duration: 78 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: serial killer, found footage, female nudity, murder, fear, male nudity, psychopath, obsession, survival, travel, violence, gory, brutality, escapades, danger, locked in a room, terror, fight, painter, massacre, runaway, insanity, stalker, maniac, witch
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: alien, space travel, outer space, creature, robot, extraterrestrial, human versus alien, alien life-form, monster, androids, space exploration, space, expedition, alien technology, creature feature, artificial intelligence, survival, alien parasite, scientist, alien creature, betrayal, psychopath, parasite, spaceship, trapped in space
Mayhem (2017)
Plot Summary:
A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses
Duration: 86 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: infection, virus, quarantine, office, isolation, murder, fired from the job, bare breasts, ceo, epidemic, pandemic, gore, layoff, one day, revenge, plague, disease, office worker, social problems, relationship problems, struggle for survival, coworker, workplace, isolated house, isolated place
Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a Basque folk tale, ”Patxi herrementaria,” collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological diabolic creatures, battling to capture the souls of the unwitting
Duration: 98 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Plot tags: folklore, folk horror, devil, supernatural, blacksmith, supernatural power, medieval, monster, lynch mob, mysticism, recluse, legends and myths, urban legend, lynching, small village, deal with the devil, magical, black magic, moving, evil, spanish history, gore, angry mob, hell, orphan
Revenge (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly — and viciously — intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge
Duration: 108 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Plot tags: revenge, survival, rape, strong female character, rape and revenge, manhunt, female protagonist, brutality, desert, chase, danger, gore, cauterizing a wound, violent woman, male nudity, escape, woman kills a man, hunting, attempted murder, oral sex, female vigilante, falling from height, isolated house, violence, nudity
Radius (2017)
Plot Summary:
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: missing person, police, memory loss, alone, suspicion, suicide, death, amnesia, memory, car accident, boat, radio, murder, parallel universe, amnesiac, supernatural ability, mysticism, paranormal, paranormal activity, memory lapse, uncover truth, serial killer, superhero, robot, monster
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Plot Summary:
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Plot tags: trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, obsession, kidnapping, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman, one night stand, teacher, sex scene, desperation, stalker, tourist, strong female lead, fall in love, woman in danger, exodus, mentally unstable, murder, christmas
The Bar (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers are trapped inside a bar
Duration: 102 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Plot tags: virus, death, trapped, murder, violence, panic, survival, fight, epidemic, dark humor, zombie, apocalypse, distopia, psychology, psychopath, past, undead, fear, disappearance, kidnapped, evacuation, cafe, sewer, locked in, locked in a room
The Babysitter (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet
Duration: 85 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Plot tags: teenager, babysitter, murder, bully, blood, accidental suicide, sacrifice, teenage girl, satanic ritual, satanic cult, rebellious teenager, cheerleader, child in peril, serial killer, babysitting, bullying, coming of age, first kiss, psychopath, ritual, characters killed one by one, corpse, adult filmmaking, book, police officer killed
Cargo (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter
Duration: 105 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Plot tags: zombie, pandemic, survival, post apocalypse, infection, father daughter relationship, boat, apocalypse, infected, baby, aborigine, danger, protection, virus, journey, dystopia, epidemic, post apocalyptic, distopia, desert, plague, living dead, dystopian future, community, end of the world
The Ritual (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them
Duration: 94 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Plot tags: forest, lost in the woods, supernatural, creature, hiking, paganism, ritual, supernatural horror, monster, folk horror, sole survivor, survival, pagan, sacrifice, witchcraft, friends, norse mythology, fear, guilt, murder, nightmare, creature feature, loss of friend, black magic, witch
Shimmer Lake (2017)
Plot Summary:
An inventive crime thriller told backwards -- reversing day by day through a week -- following a local sheriff's quest to unlock the mystery of three small town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong
Duration: 86 min
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Plot tags: murder, investigation, twists and turns, sheriff, heist, crime investigation, robbery, forensics, danger, unsolved crime, police investigation, crime solving, murder investigation, sleuth, fighting crime, secret, mysterious villain, secret revealed, bank robber, bank robbery, thief, ghetto, lgbt, police, gang
1922 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate
Duration: 102 min
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: stephen king, farmer, murder, hallucination, greed, cornfield, farm, guilt, husband murders wife, ghost, psychosis, husband wife relationship, secret, seeing dead people, infection, supernatural, rat, teenager, blood, maniac, monster, winter, mental disorder, experiment, past