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Plot Summary:
After finding an old storage locker filled with his family's history, James Erikson begins a journey to discover the truth behind a mysterious piece of land in the small town of Solitude.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary
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Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ten college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Creature Lake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five friends embark on a camping trip to sacred Native territory and are warned to stay away. When they choose to ignore the warning they are confronted with strange occurrences, seductive apparitions, vengeful locals and a deadly behemoth. Their weekend of fun becomes a descent into hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, lovecraft, independent film
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Fungicide (2002)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a crazed scientist gets a forced weekend away at a Bed and Breakfast? Mushrooms and mayhem! Death stalks the shocked guests as mushrooms of all shapes and sizes run rampant through the woods!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, splatter, psychotronic
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Trees (2000)
Plot Summary:
All's quiet in the small Vermont town of Hazelville as Memorial Day approaches until a string of mysterious deaths begin plaguing forest ranger Mark Cody. As hikers and campers turn up dead, Cody struggles to figure out what's behind the murders while the Mayor looks to keep the deaths hush-hush, afraid it will affect tourism on the town's biggest money-making day of the year. Botanist Max Cooper arrives and determines them to have been victims of the dreaded "Great White Pine." After the Mayor refuses to close the woods and tragedy ensues on Memorial Day, Cody hires grizzled lumberjack Squint to hunt down and kill the voracious tree leading to Cody, Cooper, and Squint venturing out into the woods in Squint's old beat-up pick-up truck for a final showdown with the monster tree. - Written by Number Two.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, spoof, parody
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Kissing Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of college boys, bored with the every day "gay life" of LA, decide to skip Pride weekend in exchange for a camping trip in the woods. Quickly overcome with boredom in their new surroundings, the boys venture into a game that ultimately unleashes the vengeful spirit of a local legend known as Malice Valeria. Overcome by her deadly plan of tainted love and her thirst to take back what was lost long ago, the boys must now band together before they fall victim to the poisons of a broken heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, teen horror, gay cinema
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Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mystical Sasquatch is on the loose in suburbia and only a Native-American warrior can stop it.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, folk tale, psychotronic, mystical
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Animal Among Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found - but something horrific still waits in those woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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Rootwood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the screenplay by Mario Von Czapiewski (Cannibal Diner), Rootwood follows two students who host "The Spooky Hour," a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by Hollywood film producer Laura Benott to shoot a horror documentary about the curse of The Wooden Devil, they smell their chance to become famous. Together, with their friend Erin, they enter Rootwood Forest and investigate the area to find out the truth about The Wooden Devil and his victims. Elissa Dowling (Tales of Halloween), Tyler Gallant (Alpha Wolf), Sarah French (Ouija House), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Brandon Rhea (Ultimate Justice) and Tiffani Fest (Serena Waits) star in a film that combines the aesthetics of ghost films and the intensity of monster movies to create a unique horror experience with surprising twists and turns.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, twisted
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CreepTales (2004)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, gothic, psychotronic, campy
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Shadow Creature (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detective Brighton investigates a series of unusually gruesome murders and is soon caught in a web of intrigue involving a mad scientist, a beautiful woman, a power mad politician, and one very ferocious monster. Their secret lies in a mysterious formula which could unlock the secrets of immortality... and on a less positive note, also cause the mass mutation of all life on earth! The bodies pile up as everyone scrambles for possession of the formula. It culminates in a climactic showdown whose outcome will determine the fate of all mankind!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Amityville: Mt Misery Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Buzi are ghosts' enthusiasts fascinated by the legend of the scariest road in America, Mt. Misery Road. The couple continues their adventure to the woods until they realize they got into the whirlpool of paranormal activities.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, psychotronic, spooky, low-budget
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Lycan (2017)
Plot Summary:
When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspense, psychotronic
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The Dellville Witch (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Richter and her daughter Michelle move to Aunt Ida's old place in the country they find out her 'hobby' had unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: splatter, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, dark, christmas horror, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sasquatch Mountain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Vicious (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Tar (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychotronic
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Wendigo (2001)
Plot Summary:
George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to take in the winter sights, though the drive up is hardly relaxing for any of them. George accidentally hits and severely injures a deer that ran onto the icy road; after George stops to inspect the damage, he's confronted by an angry local named Otis who flies into a rage, telling George that he and his fellow hunters had been tracking the deer for some time. An argument breaks out, which leaves George feeling deeply shaken.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, psychological, spiritual, psychotronic, spooky, independent film
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Siren (2016)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities. Feature film adapted from the V/H/S (2012) anthology segment 'Amateur Night.'.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, enigmatic, bleak, captivating, atmospheric, slasher, splatter, anime, psychotronic
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Clawed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after the incidents in Black Claw Mountain, a group of students are prey to a monster part human, part bear and part liquid.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surprise ending, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hunting the Legend (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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Bigfoot (2012)
Plot Summary:
1970's pop culture icons Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams face off in the hunt for the legendary mountain creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, tense, enigmatic, absurd, mockbuster, humorous, psychotronic, independent film, disgusting, spoof
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Primal Rage (2018)
Plot Summary:
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, intense, psychotronic
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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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Pig Hunt (2008)
Plot Summary:
When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle's remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns - despite the presence of John's sexy girlfriend Brooks. But as John and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle's demise and the legend of The Ripper -- a murderous three-thousand-pound black boar!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Feast III: The Happy Finish (2009)
Plot Summary:
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus, who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Seagal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called The Hive. Armed with this knowledge, they decide to fight back and destroy the beasts.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, suspense, intense, horror comedy, cult horror, terrifying
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Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
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Willow Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, cult classic, spooky, tense
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Feast (2005)
Plot Summary:
Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, suspenseful, exciting, horror comedy, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, bloody
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Slender Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bad ending, suspense, psychological, psychotronic, dark, slasher, demonic, spooky, thrilling