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Plot Summary:
A lone man, trapped and imprisoned in a barren, desolate landscape. His only companions are a village of straw people with which he converses with as neighbours and friends; he even teaches straw children at the local school. Yet, this anchor, this way of habitual living, is about to become unravelled in frightening and disturbing ways. Leading the way to A RECKONING.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, scary, unusual plot structure, disturbing, controversial
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The Righteous (2021)
Plot Summary:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic, art house
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Whispers (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, disturbing, twisted
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Across the River (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a wildlife biologist (Marco Marchese) becomes trapped on the wrong side of the river while collecting data, he comes across an abandoned village. Taking shelter, he begins to suspect he may be sharing the grounds with more than just boar and deer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, powerful, dread, weird
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True Fiction (2019)
Plot Summary:
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, dark
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The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Caged (2021)
Plot Summary:
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark
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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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It's in the Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
One year after a tragic incident tore their family apart, a grieving son and his estranged father embark on a journey into the wild to reconcile their past. When a horrifying accident leaves Russell badly injured, and strands them in the wild, it is up to October to save them both. However, this wilderness is not what it seems, and as they deteriorate, so to does their concept of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, lovecraft, mindfuck, scary, serious
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Door to the Other Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Haunted Boat (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the young Kevin gets the boat of his dead uncle as a gift, he invites five friends of him to a trip to Catalina Island for the weekend. While in the journey, they drink booze, have sex and play games, with each one of them telling his or her greatest fear. Later Kevin drowns in the open sea, the engine stops, and they are haunted and murdered by their greatest innermost fear.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, scary, serious, mind twisting
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Beckoning the Butcher (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beckoning the Butcher explores the night Chris Shaw and his four friends summoned a spirit into their holiday house - then disappeared forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
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The Living and the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, sexy, psychedelic, depressing, suspense
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The Sound (2017)
Plot Summary:
A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Visitors (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense
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Tony (2009)
Plot Summary:
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, twisted, thought provoking, bloody, suspense
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Phobia (2008)
Plot Summary:
4bia or Phobia (Thai: สี่แพร่ง or See Prang) is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange about this new stranger that she is attracted to. "Tit For Tat" spun a tale of black magic and vengeance for a school kid that had been bullied by a school gang. "In The Middle" - a group of friends faced one of their worst camping trip after water kayaking accident. The final segment "Last Fright" takes horror to new heights with a psychological thriller that involves a stewardess flying solo in a cabin with a dead body.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, dark fairy tale, spooky
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Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
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We Go On (2016)
Plot Summary:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, scary, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, psychological, atmospheric, intellectual
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Maid (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, dark fantasy, contemplative
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They Look Like People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing, mumblecore, mind bending, philosophical
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The Watch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, serious
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, spooky, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, creepy
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Saint Maud (2019)
Plot Summary:
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher, art house, tense
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Possum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, suspense, psychological, phantasmagoric, psychological thriller, disturbing, post-horror, scary, tense, captivating
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The Canal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, surreal, psychological thriller, spooky
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The Orphanage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark
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House of 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller, mind bending