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Plot Summary:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, suspense
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)
Plot Summary:
Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern, sees something more than just an inbred monster in this new inmate, however. Instead, he sees him as the harbinger of some greater and much darker force. With bodies piling up, his job in jeopardy, and his sanity hanging in the balance he gives in to his obsession with tapping into Joe's hidden power, risking all that he has along the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, bleak, serious, suspenseful, non-linear, suspense, psychological
Similar in 90%
Dead Sleep (1990)
Plot Summary:
A nurse uncovers the terrifying truth about a renowned doctor whose patients have become permanently maimed by his special dose of a drug called "Dead Sleep.".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, bleak, realistic, erotic, medical horror, independent film, scary, tense, serious
Similar in 85%
True True Lie (2006)
Plot Summary:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 79%
Maniac on the Loose (2008)
Plot Summary:
A patient described as "Extremely Dangerous" has escaped from the local psychiatric hospital. Fearing that he'll lose his job if word gets out, the head of the hospital, Dr. Franklin Grimm, desperately attempts to cover up the escape. Meanwhile, there is a Maniac on the Loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Committed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor as the patients' soon turns to panic as she is told that she is a "guest"- not a doctor, and the papers she signed were not job forms, but commitment papers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, scary, mind bending
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The Secret Village (2013)
Plot Summary:
Greg,an unsuccessful screenwriter and Rachel,a beautiful journalist research an outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village. They start to uncover a secret about ergot poisoning that has affected this village for years. But the cult activity has been kept a secret by the locals and when Greg disappears, Rachel is left alone to unravel the mystery and save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disaster movie
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Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
Similar in 86%
Disturbed (1990)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Wake Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Eighteenth Angel (1997)
Plot Summary:
"Satan will no longer be beast... but beauty!" That declaration comes early in The Eighteenth Angel, signaling the kind of horror movie we're in for: thick and cheesy. When that line (and others like it) is uttered by mad monk Maximilian Schell, it's even creamier. Schell is ushering in the return of the Antichrist by genetically engineering Satan's minions, but he needs the transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, anamorphic, independent film, scary, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, disturbing, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, terrifying, independent film, scary, tense
Similar in 76%
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007)
Plot Summary:
A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, esoteric, psychological horror, scary
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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Believers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call find themselves kidnapped by a religious sect whose great obsession is to stop the end of the world by committing suicide and killing people.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological horror, scary
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Roman (2006)
Plot Summary:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, slasher, suspense, spooky, psychotronic, crime thriller
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Alone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister Alex's fear filled stalking leaves behind a trail of dead bodies. Inspector Hannah is the detective who makes a desperate attempt to piece together the mystery as he is drawn into this terrifying journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic
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A Snake of June (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, disturbing, black and white, psychological thriller, philosophical, suspense, slasher
Similar in 81%
Il nascondiglio (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
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Madhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, suspense, dark, psychological horror
Similar in 78%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Plot Summary:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher and the body count mounts. Suddenly, Peter's search becomes a fight for survival in a fairy tale world full of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller
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My Sweet Killer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Sanitarium (2013)
Plot Summary:
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, anthology, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, grindhouse
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Sanatorium (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, dark, rough
Similar in 75%
The Darkroom (2006)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychological, suspense, teen, independent film
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The Ward (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twisted, atmospheric, mind twisting
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Gothika (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending