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Plot Summary:
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Evil Below (1989)
Plot Summary:
down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Night Child (1975)
Plot Summary:
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, classic horror, terrifying, psychotronic
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Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Fear No Evil (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, spooky, crime thriller
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Carnage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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The Demon Murder Case (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric
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Glimpse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a curse that now haunts him and only can be broken in one special way. But the more he learns about his former Japanese girlfriends family, the more he learns about his own family ... And one tragedy rarely comes alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense
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Stranger in Our House (1978)
Plot Summary:
A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no good. This TV horror movie had the title "Stranger in Our House" when it was originally released by NBC on Halloween night in 1978. When released on VHS in the late 1980s, the title was changed to "Summer of Fear", which is the title of the Lois Duncan book on which it is based.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, satanic, spooky, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn't know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Secrets of Emily Blair (2016)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Plot Summary:
Meg Alexander and her groom to be Derrick Logan prepare for their wedding day, but as their big day gets closer, paranormal activities soon start when Meg brings her dead mother's wedding dress into their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Plot Summary:
After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Shutter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural stalker pursues a super model to steal her soul with his demonic camera.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Legend of the Mummy (1998)
Plot Summary:
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, gothic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird
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The Possession Experiment (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a student takes on a theology project, he taps into another side that had been hidden away from him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scenic, demonic, religious horror, psychotronic
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Plot Summary:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
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Diary of an Exorcist - Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lucas devotes his life to church work after a tragedy. When an exorcism case gets out of control, he has to figure out who is under the Devil's influence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Harvesting (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Devil's Whisper (2019)
Plot Summary:
Devil's Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it's a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, dark, suspenseful
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Evil Takes Root (2020)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ouija House (2018)
Plot Summary:
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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Incarnate (2016)
Plot Summary:
An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, satanic, rough, exciting, surprise ending, psychological thriller, suspense, demonic
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The Evil (1978)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious
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The Ferryman (2007)
Plot Summary:
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John Rhys-Davies) has been cheating death for countless years. Trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, brutal, suspense, awful
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Exorcism (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the city of angels - Los Angeles - no one is immune from the lurking spirits, neither good nor evil. As the end of time rapidly approaches, both forces have much work to do. Both sides contend for the same souls, but which force will prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: demonic, suspense
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, natural horror, serious
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Death Ship (1980)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, scary, suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, grindhouse, cult classic
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, creepy, demonic, splatter, psychological