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Plot Summary:
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, lovecraft, teen horror, psychological horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Airborne (2013)
Plot Summary:
As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychedelic, slasher, mysterious, disaster movie
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The Bone Snatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, natural horror, enigmatic, disturbing, serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful
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Living Hell (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, natural horror, scary
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Unearthed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense, grindhouse, serious, psychotronic, independent film, corny
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Strange Nature (2018)
Plot Summary:
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Flight 7500 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychedelic, psychological, mind blowing, independent film, twisted
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Eye of the Beast (2007)
Plot Summary:
This menacing monster yarn stars James Van Der Beek as government scientist Dan Leland, who's sent to investigate reported sightings of a giant squidlike beast that's put the entire population of a fishing village on edge. Though Leland starts his journey confident that this sea creature with an insatiable appetite is the stuff of old legends, a string of horrific occurrences soon begins to change his mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A blazing fire rips its way through Bear Valley National Park. As the firefighters try to contain it, the animals are being forced out of their habitat including a beast that was better left undiscovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Animal (2014)
Plot Summary:
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark drama, natural horror, independent film
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Altered (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, suspense, spooky, independent film, dark, supernatural thriller
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The Relic (1997)
Plot Summary:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, splatter, tense, art house, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult horror
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, tense
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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The Boogens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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Project Viper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle Olympus is on a routine mission, but with a far-from-routine payload: "Project Viper," an experimental hybrid of human genes and computer chips, designed to adapt to any environment, particularly that of Mars. But as the shuttle crew prepares to launch the prototype into space, something unexpected occurs. Soon the astronauts are dead, and the Secretary of Defense orders the remaining prototype destroyed. To do the job, he calls on devil-may-care special agent Mike Connors (Patrick Muldoon).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Starflight One, the world's first "hypersonic plane," which flies faster and higher than any other commercial jet. On the night of its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, a freak accident incolving an unauthorized rocket launch sends Starflight One out of the atmosphere and into a decaying orbit around the Earth. With no heat shielding and limited oxygen, it is up to the bravery of the crew and the ingenuity of NASA and the plane's designers to save the passengers trapped on board.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, suspense
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Leviathan (1989)
Plot Summary:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, cult classic, natural horror, atmospheric, captivating, slasher
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Threshold (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, disaster movie
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Phantoms (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, lovecraft, serious, retro, dark, slasher
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Isolation (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, rough, serious, natural horror, weird
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The Langoliers (1995)
Plot Summary:
On a red eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But its like the world is dead. No one is there, the air is still, sound doesn't echo, the food is tasteless. A distant sound is getting louder, something is coming closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, cult horror, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, intellectual, dark
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Tape 407 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, surprise ending, fake documentary
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mockumentary, scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, space horror, atmospheric, spooky
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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, psychotronic
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Devil's Pass (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual, creepy, mockumentary, harsh, natural horror, psychological
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Afflicted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, dark, intense, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, bloody, mockumentary
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Final Destination (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, tense, bloody, creepy, splatter, teen, entertaining