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Plot Summary:
On October 31st, two preteens in a small town accidentally awaken an evil that has lain dormant for decades. They are forced to survive through a terrifying Halloween night of cat-and-mouse, from the monster known as "Bloody Bobby.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, spooky, slasher horror
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The Devil's Machine (2019)
Plot Summary:
Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess. In the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered, Brendon soon finds himself the victim of the automaton’s legendary curse as the malevolent forces surrounding it are terrifyingly awakened.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, gothic
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The Raking (2017)
Plot Summary:
THE RAKING tells the story of a group of college students who set out to debunk an urban legend in Joshua Tree, California for their anthropology thesis, only to find that they become part of the legend themselves.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Evil Little Things (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young boy finds a mystical toymaker with stories to tell. The first is of a leprechaun seeking revenge on a defenseless family. The second is of a doll who works evil on her fragile owner. The toymaker gives the boy a clown named Giggles. Clowns are supposed to be the guardians of happiness, right? These Evil Little Things will cause you many sleepless nights.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dolls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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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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Mansion of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire Mason Murphy renovates the haunted Mayhew mansion. He plans a tremendous lunar eclipse viewing party to celebrate his return to his hometown of River Ridge Iowa. At the party, magic runs out of control and the party guests are murdered one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic
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American Horror House (2012)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, 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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Savage Creatures (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two bloodthirsty vampires begin to realize that their food source is in jeopardy now that alien creatures have landed on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Know Fear (2021)
Plot Summary:
After discovering an ancient book of the occult, a family activates a dangerous ritual forcing each of them to communicate with and fight a demonic force in their own unique way: to see it, hear it or speak to it.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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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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Infernum (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ancient literature has referred to the sound of hell as "the wailing and gnashing of teeth." Many people believe that may be the explanation behind a paranormal phenomenon that has been heard around the world. Camille Williams (Suziey Block) believes this haunting sound is responsible for the disappearance of her parents when she was a young girl. Now a grown woman, Camille sets out with her friend James (Clinton Roper Elledge) to hopefully find some answers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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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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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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Dark, Deadly & Dreadful (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fun Size Horror Presents "Dark, Deadly & Dreadful", an anthology of short films from Fun Size Horror's community of filmmakers. Each film explores different themes in the horror genre all from the unique perspective of its creator. Featuring work from a diverse group of filmmakers, shorts include submissions to Fun Size Horror, world premiers, and festival winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, horror spoof
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Chupacabra Territory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Deep Rooted Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six friends plan a weekend getaway to "Camp Happy Dream" despite the campsite being plagued by a deadly urban legend. As legend has it, a machete-wielding park ranger named Sparrow, brutally murdered two people in fit of jealous rage, and is said to continue to roam the forest to this day. The friends's disbelief in this urban legend is soon changed when strange happenings begin to occur to each of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror
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Queen of Spades (2021)
Plot Summary:
According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. Four teenagers summon the Queen of Spades, but they could never imagine the horrors that await them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Encounter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a séance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Last Revenant (2017)
Plot Summary:
A great plague has eradicated all vampires from the planet except for four lone female survivors of the species. They must integrate into society or risk extinction.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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A Brilliant Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
Where do you get those brilliant ideas? A question which plagues all creators. They say success comes with a price, but for the story of Mitch Stockridge, an author of self-help books, that price feeds a bigger monster inside of us all. Into the stressful depths of the creative mind, the lengths that one goes through for success, and the anxiety to keep on producing while on top.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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When Death Calls (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween, and an elementary school teacher is being stalked by a mysterious caller. Meanwhile, sexy DJ Roxy Richards is making her scariest broadcast yet - but she may not realize how scary things are going to get when an old friend calls in.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology
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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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Hell Hole (2013)
Plot Summary:
When two of the world's biggest slackers accidentally open the door to hell, they have to figure out a way to close it before hell's monsters destroy the earth, and their babes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Skookum: The Hunt for Bigfoot (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Louisiana swamp lives a legend. In the fall of 2013, the legend comes to life. Many have seen, some have heard, and none have forgotten: the giant hairy creature with glowing red eyes that locals refer to as the Beast of Bayou Dorcheat. When the long dormant Bigfoot monster seemingly begins a brutal reign of terror, a glamorous talk show host, Dr. Anna Rock, must leave her highly coveted position to search for her younger sister Megan, a Bigfoot researcher, in the swampy wilderness of northern Louisiana.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dead Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple – Anne and Harold – moves into a new home without knowing it was a site of horrific murders, Anne's loneliness and strange behavior makes their relationship complicated, especially after Anne meets 'Mary', a dark presence from which she can't escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, 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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Sleep No More (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic