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Plot Summary:
Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Tunnel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ki-Chul drives his friends out to a resort situated by an abandoned coal mine. His father owns the resort. When they get there, they cross paths with a spooky man who warns them about the coal mine. Later, the friends find themselves in a desperate situation and enter the tunnels of the abandoned coal mine. Will they ever see the light of day again?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Coco (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is haunted by memories of her childhood, slowly tries to put the pieces of her past together, but in doing so, she awakens a horror she had long since forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Gnome Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a dying old woman gives Zoe a cursed amulet, all of her enemies begin dying tragic deaths at the hands of a GNOME. Now, she must try to stop it before he kills those she loves.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dark Amazon (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film crew tracks a group of researchers and their breakthrough disease research. While battling through the rain-forest, things turn deadly leaving them fighting to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Witches of Amityville Academy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jessica accepts an invitation to study at the private and exclusive Amityville Academy. After her induction, she realizes that it's a coven of evil witches trying to summon and unleash the demon Botis in order to spread terror throughout the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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Leah Smock, the Legend Awakens (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a hollow, deep in the back woods of Kentucky, there is an unassuming grave of a young woman who died at the young age of twenty-two. Folklore tells that a beautiful and intelligent woman with long flowing black hair is buried here on this peaceful spot of the woods. However, folklore also tells of a more sinister secret about this seemly innocent young woman, and the circumstances that surrounds her death as an evil witch named Leah Smock.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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A Chinese Fairy Tale (2011)
Plot Summary:
Government official Ling Choi Sin journeys to the parched Black Mountain Village, to help its inhabitants find water. As he leads a group of volunteers up the haunted mountain, he encounters a bevy of sexy demons as well as a lovely girl named Siu Sin. After wooing her with some candy, he falls for her... and then realises that he is caught in a deadly triangle; another guy, a demon-hunter named Yan Chek Ha is also in love with Siu Sin. However, before the two men can settle their differences, they have to contend with the evil Tree Demon as well as a one-armed demon hunter who is determined to kill all the supernatural beings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lurking Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
An evil entity is set free just as a group of scavenger hunters is about to enter the area.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Apparition (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns that he is not alone in this quaint home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Afterimages (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of film students burn paper effigy cameras for the wandering spirits during the ghost month in Singapore and receive a collection of horror movies in return.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, enigmatic
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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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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 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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I Know You're in There (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Necronomicon – The Book of Hell (2018)
Plot Summary:
A librarian founds a copy of the fabled Necronomicon, only unleash hell on earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Whooper Returns (2021)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting their family home, four estranged siblings find themselves in the grip of demonic possession. When an eccentric stranger arrives, claiming the house was left to her, they start experiencing strange, inexplicable manifestations, which has malevolent effects on everyone in the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense
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The Hand (2020)
Plot Summary:
One night, the main character “Bongsoo” and his wife, encounter a grotesque looking hand sticking out from the toilet in their bathroom. The “hand” protruded out of the toilet seems to be very still, like a severed limb hanging low. The wife, security guard and 911 crew gather in the bathroom, one after another, to identify this strange looking “thing” but all of a sudden find themselves struggling for their lives as they try to fight against it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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The Haunting of Alice Bowles (2020)
Plot Summary:
When two YouTubers uncover a mysterious grave in an abandoned churchyard, what starts as harmless entertainment soon turns darker when their discovery begins to unwrap a mystery which has lain dormant for over a century.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Tooth Fairy: The Last Extraction (2021)
Plot Summary:
Corey and his daughter, Sally, decide to go on a summer break with friends, Diane, Christy, Toby and Benny. Little do they know, Corey's past is going to catch up to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, stylized, psychotronic
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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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Humanoid Monster, Bem the Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one more powerful than they have ever encountered. The story will also focus on Belo's first love, and his increasing desire to become human. In the meantime, Bem and Bela have found a way to become human, but are conflicted about whether to let just Belo turn human, or along with Belo, become humans themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, anime
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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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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The Toll (2020)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger they try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, gay cinema, weird
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Seven Hells (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven festival-winning shorts. Seven horrifying and hilarious tales of people trapped in their own special hells. The perfect Halloween movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Haunted Road 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Young couple enter a wrong hotel when they travel to Malaysia and horrible things occur.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Horror
Country: China, Thailand, Malaysia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Brimstone Incorporated (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone Incorporated features three ghoulish tales of terror and a wraparound, the latter centering around a law firm that serves as the gateway to Hell. Stories include Mama's Boy, First Date and Skunk Weed,.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Cryptid (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a chain of horrific and inexplicable events start to unfold in their small town on the northern hemisphere, an ensemble of high school students will be forced to face their darkest fears in order to overcome a supernatural force feeding on chaos and the misery of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky