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Plot Summary:
A young girl is accidentally run down by a car driven by a careless city slicker. This careless injustice provokes the girl's grandfather into summoning his mystical powers and placing a death curse on the young man. Desperate to stave off the dire consequences of the hex, Barry seeks the counsel of a local psychic medium.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: pastoral, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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From Within (2008)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, demonic, psychological horror, religious horror, psychological, mind bending
Similar in 75%
Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan MacKinlay is a man trapped inside his home by his own mind. Suffering from agoraphobia, caused by a car accident that took his wife's life; his existence has been reduced to a monotonous repetition of identical days. As his dread and self-loathing escalate, an onslaught of gruesome visions and twisted, waking nightmares begins to gnaw away at his last shred of sanity. Are these ghastly visions imaginary, private demons...or is he being victimized by a very real entity of infinite terror and unspeakable evil?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Ruin Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, horror comedy
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Exorcist House of Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, shot in THE REAL EXORCIST HOUSE, a young woman returns to her old family home, the site of an infamous exorcism and discovers the devil never left. This film was shot in THE REAL EXORCIST HOUSE and during filming captured both audible and visible paranormal activity which has been left in the film giving those who dare to watch a unique look into one of the most infamous homes in America and possibly exposing them to the devil still lurking within.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic, psychotronic
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Daughters of Satan (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, satanic, grindhouse, independent film, talky, psychotronic
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The Premonition (1975)
Plot Summary:
This Thriller/horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother will take her away from her beloved foster mother. One day, the crazed real mother attempts to contact the girl at school, but her foster mother has a premonition and gets there in time to protect the girl. Eventually though, the real mother and her boy friend, a carnival clown, succeed and takes her away, leaving the bereaved foster parents to enlist the assistance of a parapsychologist to help them interpret the foster mother's terrifying dreams and psychic connection to the girl and find her before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Dig Two Graves (2014)
Plot Summary:
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, psychological, sexy, disturbing, period piece, 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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Lovers of the Lord of the Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: religious horror, satanic, psychotronic
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Witchboard (1986)
Plot Summary:
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, cult classic, psychological, creepy, suspenseful, terrifying, atmospheric, disturbing, classic horror, queer horror
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The Poltergeist of Borley Forest (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a night of teenage partying in the woods, Paige unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that plunge her into a waking nightmare. Tormented by terrifying and increasingly violent supernatural visitations, Paige starts digging into the past and uncovers a sinister secret, buried for decades. Behind the force that now haunts her is a malevolent entity of unspeakable evil. As its power grows and her friends fall prey to its savagery, can she (or anyone) stop The Poltergeist of Borley Forest?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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The Inhabitants (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple gets more than they bargained for when they buy an historic bed and breakfast in New England only to discover that the old house is hiding a dark secret within its walls.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wraith (2017)
Plot Summary:
After living in an old mansion for almost 10 years a family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them. A super-natural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing
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The Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, weird
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Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Margot, a documentary filmmaker, heads to a secluded Amish community in the hopes of learning about her long-lost mother and extended family. Following a string of strange occurrences and discoveries, she comes to realize this community may not be what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, mockumentary, gay cinema, documentary filmmaking
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The Inherited (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Nesting (1981)
Plot Summary:
A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, gothic horror, grindhouse, pastoral, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspense
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Dark Intruder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, suspense, detective, grindhouse, action thriller, weird
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The Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
After suffering the recent loss of his wife, David Reynolds decides to take his family on a cathartic trip to her home village in Columbia. While en route, they get into a car accident and seek refuge in a secluded inn. While there they find a mysterious young girl, Ana Maria, locked up with cryptic symbols painted on the walls of her cell. Shocked by the treatment of her caretaker, the family sets Ana free only to realize that she is possessed by an evil spirit from centuries past. What’s worse, the spirit can jump from person to person, creating a deadly dynamic amongst the once loving family. Now, David must figure out a way to lock the spirit up for good before it destroys him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, spooky, disturbing, demonic, road movie
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The Monster Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, surprise ending, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Pyewacket (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, demonic, post-horror, captivating, psychological, surprise ending, atmospheric, intellectual
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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: satanic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, horror musical, scary, tense, mind bending
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Night at the Eagle Inn (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fraternal twins spend a hellish night at the remote inn their father disappeared from the night they were born.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
Plot Summary:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, neo noir, detective, rough, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, satanic, religious horror
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Ouija (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, splatter, demonic, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, suspense, dark
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Burnt Offerings (1976)
Plot Summary:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, suspense, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher
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V/H/S (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, creepy
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Oculus (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, frightening, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, creepy, psychological
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Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Plot Summary:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, demonic, psychotronic, disturbing, spooky, serious
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The Conjuring (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 545000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, terrifying, creepy, demonic, splatter