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Plot Summary:
Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yu-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky, realistic, sinister, asian horror
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Room 205 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Wanting to start a fresh, Katrine moves from the province into a dormitory in Copenhagen and enrolls at the University. But when she crosses conniving Sanne by getting together with Sanne's ex, all hell breaks loose. Sanne and her friends frighten Katrine with an old myth surrounding the ghost of a former resident. Yet the myth very soon becomes reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, underground film, realistic, surprise ending
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Arang (2006)
Plot Summary:
A salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensics. Min has nightmares: a sexual assault that haunts her. She and Lee work well together, but soon two more deaths occur - each mysteriously poisoned, both friends of the ex-con. A fourth friend, a newly married doctor, is a suspect. But what has all this to do with the salt storehouse, a death ten years ago, and a missing girl? Can Min and Lee get to the bottom of it, or is the supernatural beyond a cop's reach?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, detective, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending
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Nightmare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, slasher, bloody, queer horror, psychotronic
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Cubbyhouse (2001)
Plot Summary:
Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder and satanic ritual. Before long, her two youngest kids have fallen under the spell of an evil force emanating from a sinister cubbyhouse in the back garden, and bloody past events look set to repeat themselves.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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The Tattooist (2007)
Plot Summary:
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, psychological, underground film, mystic, psychotronic
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Behind the Wall (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, mind bending, enigmatic, suspense, scary, serious
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The Unleashed (2011)
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Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. Lindsay, a childhood friend of Madisons with an adventurous nature, hears of Madison's arrival and has every intention of reconnecting a friendship once had. Bizarre and unexplainable events occur within the house after old friends come together and dabble with the infamous Ouija board. Lindsay, being all too curious of the board and its undeniable power, gives into the persuasion of an unknown entity and allows it to possess her. Madison must overpower her deepest fears and find a way to release Lindsay and abolish the presence that haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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Coming Soon (2008)
Plot Summary:
What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja-vu.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, spooky, terrifying, twisted
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Conjurer (2008)
Plot Summary:
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who once lived there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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Killer Instinct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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The Locker (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, asian horror
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Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, captivating
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Whispering Corridors (1998)
Plot Summary:
While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher Mrs. Park startles and calls the young teacher Eun-young Hur, telling her that the deceased Jin-ju Jang is back. The line dies and Mrs. Park is attacked and killed by a ghost. On the next morning, the teenager Jae-yi Yoon waits for her friend Ji-oh Lim, who has the ability to call the spirits, and they begin a close friendship. The abusive and aggressive Mr. Oh, a.k.a. Mad Dog, is the substitute of Mrs. Park and prohibits Ji-oh to paint and compares the performances of the pretty So-young Park and the weird Jung-sook Kim, raising a barrier between the two former friends. Miss Hur misses her former friend Jin-ju, who committed suicide, and while trying to contact her, she discloses a dark secret about the past of her friend and Mrs. Park.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, serious
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I Am ZoZo (2012)
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I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that attaches itself to people exclusively through Ouija boards. I Am ZoZo was shot on location on San Juan Island, WA and Seattle entirely on Kodak Super 8mm negative film stock.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mind bending, psychotronic
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Killer Toon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders resembling Ji-yoon’s horror webcomic drawings occur and detective Ki-chul unravels the terrifying truth of the comics himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, dark fantasy, detective, suspense, sinister
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Nine Lives (2002)
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Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
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By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Ouija House (2018)
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A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the house part of its game….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, melancholic, intense, psychotronic
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Long Time Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, bloody
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Phone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some investigating and discovers that of the people before her who had the same number, almost all of them died suddenly under unusual circumstances. As Yeong-ju's behavior becomes increasingly alarming, Ji-won digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the number's first owner, a high school girl named Jin-hie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, splatter, art house, creepy, atmospheric
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Lizzie (2012)
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Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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Cassadaga (2011)
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A deaf girl attempts to contact her sister during a séance, only to connect with the ghost of a murdered woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, touching, independent film
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Spirit Trap (2005)
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When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, suspense, sexy, tense
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The Cradle (2007)
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When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 761
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Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
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A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013)
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A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find the killer is very close to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, scenic
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Dark House (2009)
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A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Playback (2012)
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While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
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College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to examine their "treasure," they unleash the vengeful spirit of an Irish servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners throughout the generations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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The Grudge 3 (2009)
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Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
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In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher