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Plot Summary:
When baby Sebastian is born on 12/12/12 everyone around him starts to die. Soon, his mother realizes that her son is the spawn of Hell.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, tense
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Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, suspense, dark, mystic, serious
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Mask Maker (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, realistic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, entertaining, creepy
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Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009)
Plot Summary:
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, independent film
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Cataclysm (1980)
Plot Summary:
Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, demonic, cult film
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Sharon's Baby (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, satanic, supernatural thriller, psychotronic, independent film
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The Final Wish (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother and to confront his past demons. Sifting through his father’s belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary
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1313: Cougar Cult (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rufus, Darwin, and Coopersmith are three nerdy, but hunky young college students who score themselves a dream summer job working at a swanky mansion owned by wealthy and sexy middle-aged babes Clara, Victoria, and Edwina. However, the gals turn out to be a coven of deadly witches who transform into flesh-eating cougars who need fresh young man meat in order to live forever.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, serious, suspenseful, independent film, homoerotic, campy
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Satan's Playground (2006)
Plot Summary:
SATAN'S PLAYGROUND is a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, panic sets in. Then the marooned family stumbles upon an ancient and seemingly abandoned house. And it is here that they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds who lives there with her equally unhinged children. Offering no assistance, she warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves. SATAN'S PLAYGROUND...a place where deadly myth becomes gruesome reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, serious, suspense, dark, independent film
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Shapeshifter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat Glazer and A.J. Hammond make up the ensemble cast of this independent horror thriller from director Gregory Lemkin, who also shares screenwriting credits.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Born (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty one year old virgin, and wakes up the next morning pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill, for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth's dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child's deadly evil cravings.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mystic, serious, surprise ending, dark, twist ending, slasher
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Demon Wind (1990)
Plot Summary:
We are introduced to 1931. A body is being burned on a cross, a woman named Regina is at a farm, and attempting to barricade a door, from where beyond, demons try to enter. Her husband George transforms into a demon instead and kills her.Sixty-years-later, after the suicide of his father, a young man named cory, the grandson of Regina and George, and his girlfriend Elaine, along with a group of ther friends, travel up to the farm, where the events took place sixty years before, so that Cory can figure out what happened to his grandparents. They sooon come under attack by a band of vicious demons and when the kids try to escape a mysteirous fog brings them back to the farm. The only good thing is that they are protected by a shield that prevents the demons from entering the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, demonic, creepy, cult horror, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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Death Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she starts to become unhinged and her paranoia overtakes every aspect of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Ritual (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls Tom to help but now they've found a VHS tape that depicts a satanic ritual in which a woman is murdered. Lovely desperately wants to leave and they do, but Tom forgot his engraved lighter in the room, and when they go back to find it, the dead body appears missing.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, mumblecore, realistic
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Aunt Rose (2005)
Plot Summary:
A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but what they didn't realize was that they had entered into the home of a truly terrifying family. But the folks downstairs are the least of their worries, because by the time these sadistic beasts discover the unearthly powers of the woman who dwells on the third floor, it's already too late for any hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, offbeat
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Witchouse (1999)
Plot Summary:
On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky, slasher, independent film, serious, gay cinema
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The Club (1994)
Plot Summary:
Time stops at midnight at the Senior Prom for five students, one murderous counselor, and John. They must find the courage to face themselves or, when time starts again, they may find that they are joining John's Club. All you have to do is commit murder... or suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends unleash a demonic Pirate from a treasure chest.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, semi serious, mockbuster, offbeat, surprise ending, splatter
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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666: The Child (2006)
Plot Summary:
A jet liner plummets from the sky and crashes into the earth. From the burning embers rises one lone survivor - a small boy! But the childless couple that adopts him will soon discover he is no helpless child, but rather something very powerful, something very dark. This small boy is the Beast and with him he carries the Beginning of the End.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockbuster, independent film
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666: The Beast (2007)
Plot Summary:
Donald Lawson, the devil child from "666: The Child", is now an adult and is determined to fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, independent film
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Offspring (2009)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire's despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, rough, psychological, suspense, underground film, grindhouse, atmospheric, bleak
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Primitive (2011)
Plot Summary:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory monster - convince the local police that Martin is somehow responsible, and soon he comes to believe it too, as all the victims are connected to the evil within him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Zombie Nation (2004)
Plot Summary:
A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective
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Damien (2016)
Plot Summary:
After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, spooky, psychological thriller, demonic, scary, bleak, satanic
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized, tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense