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Plot Summary:
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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The Pyramid (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology, splatter
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Family Demons (2009)
Plot Summary:
When an abused teenage girl murders her alcoholic mother, the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, scary
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Hotel Inferno 3: The Castle of Screams (2021)
Plot Summary:
Frank, although you have retrieved the Fire element, you are still trapped in the hellish Hotel Inferno. Now you must pass through the Village of the Disease, struggling to survive the frozen horrors that haunt those cursed passages, until you finally reach the Castle of Screams. There you will find your only ally, The Witch, who is being held captive along with the Ice element. But beware. The Castle is guarded by an army of unspeakable horrors. On this cold journey you will face many infernal atrocities, and as you will discover, the demons are not your only enemies. Fight for your sanity, retrieve the Ice element, and take the second step towards your resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, extreme horror, splatter
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Apparition (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of millennials experimenting with a spiritually guided app successfully connect to the other-world and are ultimately guided to The Preston Castle. This ominous, historic site of murder and torture is connected to each of them in ways they’ll soon discover, thanks to the dead. The film is based on the shockingly true events of The Preston School of Industry.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Welcome to the Circle (2020)
Plot Summary:
A random bear attack during a family camping trip leaves Greg (father) and Samantha (daughter) trapped by demon worshiping cult known as The Circle. Unbeknownst to all is that there's an infiltrator in the cults ranks. She is communication with a former member on the outside named Grady. Grady's plan is to lead a small group of rescuers into the heart of The Circle. But will they get there in time to save Greg, Samantha, and others from the demon known as Percy Stephens?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Heiress (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Kandisha (2020)
Plot Summary:
While working on their graffiti pieces in a condemned apartment building, best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana discover a name scribbled on one of the walls — Kandisha. Morjana recognises the name as that of a powerful demon found in Moroccan folklore, summoned by women to exact vengeance on men. When Amélie is later assaulted by her ex, she remembers Morjana's story and, angry and upset, impulsively summons the spirit. The next day, her ex is found dead. The legend is true, and now Kandisha is on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary
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Not Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin on the East Coast. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wolf Cabin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers get dragged in to a deadly cat and mouse game when a masked psychopath decides to live out his sick Christmas fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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Nightmare in Psycho Town (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three teens are forced to spend the night at the house on Hollow Road. They eventually learn that each one of them has been having recurring nightmares. Nightmares that could only take place in the mind of a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, anthology
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Within These Walls (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prisoner in her own home, a captive in her own body. Assaulted and trapped with no one to hear her cries for help... and knowing no one will believe her if they do. This is the terrifying reality Alaina finds herself in when she moves in to the house her mother died in. At first she thinks it's the loss of her mother that is haunting her, but she is soon shown it is something far more malicious and unrelenting. The spirit taunts her as it invades her body, mind, and soul, completely trapping her. Alaina has to fight for answers on what really happened to her mother if she has any hopes of survival. She must find a way to endure this monster who lives and breathes to rob her of her sanity as it demands a savage hold on her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Movie Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the small suburban hood of Nukaville, New Jersey lives the story of young Jerry Rizzo, a 15 year old who can't get enough of horror films. One day after a fatal mistake from one of the bullies at school turns Jerry's path into a brutal serial killer. It just so happens they're having a scary movie week of non-stop horror, horror, horror on the television, while Jerry is killing everyone in his way. Who will survive? Will this be his victims last Movie Night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, cult film
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Giving Up Forever (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Adolf, a 38 year old man with a history of being rejected by women seeks revenge against the people who have bullied him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological horror
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And Then You Die! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right and everything falls apart, everyone is out to get you and there isn't a damn thing you can do....or is there! Life's a bitch!...And then YOU die! A movie about revenge, punishment & showing everyone who screws up your life, that PAYBACKS A BITCH! Follow Sam Wallace as he has the worst day of his entire life! Pray you weren't one of those people who messed up his day or his life, because he is coming back for revenge! And then YOU die!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Ghoulish Tales (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a cold December night Logan's babysitter tells him three tales of unspeakable horror. But the most terrifying tale of all is lurking right outside their door.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, christmas horror, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy
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Hosts (2020)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, an innocent couple become hosts to a malicious entity. Throughout the night they terrorise a family of five in unimaginably violent and disturbing ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, atmospheric, perverse
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Savage Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Mitch decides to take his virgin girl friend Sarah away for Christmas, her friends tag along. What was suppose to be a weekend of fun, turned into a Christmas they will never forget. A group of filmmakers bring back a demon from the beyond, who is in search for virgin flesh to transfer its soul into. Sarah is in for the night of her life, as she is the target of the demons desires.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, folk tale, grindhouse, creepy
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Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Plot Summary:
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. Walking on a deserted beach he finds a ring with a Latin inscription,which translates as Who Is This Who Is Coming. He takes the ring back to the hotel but at night he hears loud banging on his door,even though he is the sole guest,as well as seeing a white-clad apparition on the beach.He is seemingly the victim of ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, christmas horror, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, dark, scary
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A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return (2019)
Plot Summary:
Several years after a deadly struggle with her serial killer aunt, Jordan works to escape her troubled history. But when her aunt's revenge-seeking specter surfaces to join forces with a deranged convict, Jordan must return to the haunted town of Silver Falls for a final showdown with the ghosts of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Exit 14 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Laurie, a good-natured college student, embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith, Joey, and her boyfriend Mick. They get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk and are haunted by the ghost story he shares with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Abigail Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Behind You (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, suspense, dark, suspenseful
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Mother Krampus 2: Slay Ride (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas time in Cleveland, Ohio and four young ladies are on the verge of completing their mandatory thirty days of community service. With only one night to go, they are required to make a series of in-home visits to the older and less fortunate. Upon arriving at their final stop for the night, they become introduced to a pleasant older woman who graciously welcomes them into her home for the evening. However, as darkness falls and the cold settles in, they begin to realize that there is far more to their seemingly innocent host than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill (2013)
Plot Summary:
In March 1963, a black mass was held at a ruined church in Clophill, Bedfordshire by a coven of dark witches. Tombs were looted, animals sacrificed and human bones arranged during a macabre ceremony. Further defilements continued at Clophill in the following years, with cattle in nearby fields found mutilated, evidence of necromancy discovered and perpetual sightings of paranormal activity witnessed at the isolated ruin. 50 years on from the original incident, the Clophill legend remains etched on the psyches of the local populace. In 2010, a documentary team was assembled to investigate the legend of the Clophill witches and to try and uncover the truth behind the paranormal events. What followed during that long weekend at Clophill was a terrifying journey into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film