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Plot Summary:
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, manga, touching, visual, cult classic, aesthetic
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Game of Death (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one's head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, splatter, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, awful
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Tempus Tormentum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, suspense, psychotronic, psycho film
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Devilman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira (Hisato Izaki) and Ryo (Yusuke Izaki) wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, manga, romantic, scenic, anime, perverse, futuristic
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The Last Matinee (2020)
Plot Summary:
On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running starts being murdered by a crazed killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, slasher horror, weird
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Sky High (2002)
Plot Summary:
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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Odds Are (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Werewolf Game: Inferno (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hiromi Nonoyama is a 2nd grade high school student. She finds herself confined in a strange place with nine of her classmates. They are forced to take part in a game that risks their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Great Yokai War (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war, where he meets a group of friendly spirits who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the spirits from oppression. The creatures and ghosts are taken directly from Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing. Written by Seikima.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, manga, surreal, anime, shoujo
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The Werewolf Game: The Villagers Side (2013)
Plot Summary:
Airi is a high school student. On the way home from school, Airi is kidnapped by someone. Then, 9 more high school students are all kidnapped like Airi. Those kidnapped students are forced to participate in Jinroh Game, with their lives at stake.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Signal 100 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp (2010)
Plot Summary:
Se-hee is haunted by her step sister Tae-yeon who used to be a promising swimmer but suddenly killed herself in a swimming pool 2 years ago. During the summer vacation, she joins the study camp at school for upcoming college entrance exam with other 30 elite students. On the first night, when Se-hee finds a riddling passage scribbled in the desk, she soon sees a dead girl’s body hung upside down. Then the TV monitors are on and the students watch another friend crushed by his bike in the corridor. Since then, the succession of cruel killings occurs whenever they fail to answer the given questions in time. Meanwhile, the hidden truth behind Tae-yeon’s suicide is slowly revealed and terrified students struggle to death to undo the puzzle before they become the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, bloody, splatter, scary, realistic
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Gantz: O (2016)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal - few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, 3d animation, surreal, manga, grindhouse, perverse, adult animation, weird, post modern
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Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Plot Summary:
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, neo noir
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Death Parade (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling new series where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: your life is on the line.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, manga, suspense, adult anime, adult animation
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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Plot Summary:
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, manga, queer horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, anime, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, captivating, manga, seinen, action thriller
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20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)
Plot Summary:
The final showdown, and the final reveal: who is Friend? How can he be stopped?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, manga, anime, offbeat, serious, weird
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Gantz: The Movie, Part 1 (2010)
Plot Summary:
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, serious, futuristic, anime, manga, surreal, fast
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Cube (2021)
Plot Summary:
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, spooky, surprise ending
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Escape Room (2017)
Plot Summary:
Six friends test their intelligence in a game that takes a dark turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, brutal, suspenseful, surprise ending, entertaining, intense, slasher, splatter, teen horror
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Werewolf Game: Prison Break (2016)
Plot Summary:
Akari Inui and other students are kidnapped and imprisoned. They are forced to take part in a game to kill and survive. The last survivor will receive one hundred million yen.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, controversial, disturbing, splatter, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, psychological
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Battle Royale (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 192000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting, psychological, splatter, epic, futuristic, harsh
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Pulse (2001)
Plot Summary:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, atmospheric, frightening, philosophical, suspense, cerebral
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Plot Summary:
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Hungary, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, thrilling, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, clever, surreal
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The Hunger Games (2012)
Plot Summary:
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 981000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, teen, thought provoking, apocalyptic, suspense, action packed
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Alice in Borderland (2020)
Plot Summary:
With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, dorama, witty, psychotronic, disturbing, dark fantasy, manga, shounen