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Plot Summary:
A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, slasher, exciting, tense, suspense
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Are You Scared 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two psychopaths controlled by the sick owner of an underground site that is filming their movements and they have to fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, rough, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Land of Smiles (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the object of a sociopath's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Austria, Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Night Crew (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, perverse, action thriller
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Ten: Murder Island (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids travel to an abandoned island for a party only to discover that they are being stalked and hunted down by a dangerous predator.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Sadist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Toxin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant John Paxton wants revenge against the government he and his men swore their lives to defend. The very government that abandoned and betrayed him, leaving him to die after a secret biological warfare experiment went horribly wrong. John will discover revenge is a journey that will ultimately leave millions infected, countless dead, and the lucky few survivors struggling to find the last safe corner for humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, scary, rough
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Attack of the Morningside Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
When desecrated corpses and ritualistic symbols start appearing, the residents of Morningside, New Jeresey, are thrust into an unreal world of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Redwood Massacre: Annihilation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders, convinces a group of bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in hope of proving the existence of the infamous killer. Their quest for truth sees a sinister turn of events, as the hunters become the hunted. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues when they find that the tales told of the axe-wielding manic is very real.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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The Kiss of a Killer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A true story, Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol. According to rumors, he was still seen decades later, in different parts of the world. He never was found and so the whereabouts of this man are unknown, even today. Almost a century later, five bank robbers search for a hideaway in a remote hotel, as they flee from the police. Brutal and unforeseen events take overhand and build a bridge to the past. The assumed safe house turns into a nightmare... is Bela Kiss still alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, realistic, stylized, independent film
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Basement Jack (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, low-budget
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Greed (2006)
Plot Summary:
Raven (Darlena Tejeiro) and Ashley (Andrea Bogart), two young women returning from a rock-climbing expedition, find themselves harassed by a group of bikers at a dusty bar in the desert. With surprise and guile on their side, the girls escape by stealing the leader's bike. Within minutes the furious biker gang is in hot pursuit through the hazardous terrain. Believing they have evaded the bikers, the girls discover a satchel of cash on their damaged bike and stumble across the desert to a small motel. The owner, Ned (Joe Goodrich), has agreed to drive them into town when suddenly the bikers appear, and they're looking for payback and the money.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, fast
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Bastard (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, disturbing, perverse, bizarre
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The Island (1980)
Plot Summary:
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across Warner and his band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, rough, cult classic, psychotronic, serious, slasher, scary, psychological
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Tag (2015)
Plot Summary:
Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, surreal, tense, captivating, splatter, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, bloody
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Killer Holiday (2013)
Plot Summary:
Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they get farther and farther away from civilization along old Route 66 with a killer in pursuit. Anxiety builds as each stop along the way proves stranger and stranger until the group is lured to an abandoned amusement park with a mysterious past far off the main highway. There the group discovers that the park comes complete with broken down vintage carnival rides, shocking surprises, the smell of death, and an enticing, young tattooed serial killer named Spider.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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Trail of Blood (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic killing spree - leaving Jim and his friends fighting to get out of the forest alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, anime, exciting, realistic, slasher
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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
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War Games (2010)
Plot Summary:
A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target and no one is safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, intelligent, scary, exciting, realistic
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The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Battleground (2012)
Plot Summary:
The war in Vietnam is announced to finish. American troops are withdrawn and the relief of peace echoes through the air. However, as the calm after the storm spreads a sigh of relief, there is something unsettling amidst the forests of North Michigan. A disturbed war veteran remains, but he lives for one reason only - to kill. What would happen if six ruthless men stumbled across him in the eerie deserted forest, after their mass bank-robbery leaves them running from the law with three million dollars? Would they be better off facing the cells of prison or can they escape from the murderer out to get them…?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)
Plot Summary:
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, space horror, captivating, suspense
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary