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Plot Summary:
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the "modern mythology" of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about. All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, independent film, scary, serious
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Respire (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one's body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930's, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes it's contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary
Similar in 81%
Infection (2005)
Plot Summary:
A meteor carrying an unknown infection, lands outside a Small Californian community, bringing terror and death. Just after midnight, a local rancher named Larry Jenkins discovers the meteor and calls the police. Inspector Bardo is sent to the scene to investigate. The small Lawton police department is short-handed, as it is the night of the high school prom. Arriving at a desolate forest road miles out of town, Bardo discovers that Jenkins has been infected by the alien organism. The officer is savagely attacked and infected. Both men head towards Lawton, terrorizing and contaminating everyone they encounter. Meanwhile, Cheryl and Timmy have left the prom and are parked atop Lover's Lane. Bardo comes upon the lovebirds and attacks them, infecting Timmy. Now Cheryl must run for her life through the pitch-black forest, escaping her pursuers and trying to reach the authorities before the infection spreads to L.A.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, psychotronic, mockumentary
Similar in 87%
Chill (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, awful
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Lost Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
After leaving a doctor visit with the worst news, Valerie Dreyfuss and her sister Melissa come to a stop on a lonely stretch of road. Their car is engulfed by a blinding light....12 hours later Valerie wakes to the horror that her sister is gone, nowhere to be found.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, serious
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Area 51 Confidential (2011)
Plot Summary:
People from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
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Alien Abduction (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, independent film
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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Attack of the Unknown (2020)
Plot Summary:
A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Silent Warnings (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer joins his girlfriend and four friends of them to visit and clean the inherited farm in the country. The local Sheriff Bill Willingham is an old friend of Layne, and also grieves the death of Joe. When the group arrives in the farm, some weird and mysterious signs appear in the cornfield, but they believe the other locals are joking with them. When Iris Doyle vanishes, the rest of the group realizes that there is a serious menace jeopardizing that place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Progeny (1998)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, slasher, mystic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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51 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, exciting, psychological, creepy, scary, interesting, dystopian
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Prisoner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
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Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
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Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Not Forgotten (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
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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Alien Origin (2012)
Plot Summary:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Happy Camp (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to the childhood town where his brother was abducted 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, mockumentary, scary, independent film, fake documentary
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Unaware (2010)
Plot Summary:
In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic, mockumentary, tense, suspense, scary, exciting, rough
Similar in 88%
Altered (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
Similar in 88%
Night Skies (2007)
Plot Summary:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, depressing, suspense
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Absence (2013)
Plot Summary:
Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockumentary, psychological horror, independent film, fake documentary
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Infection (2011)
Plot Summary:
A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of the "Modern Plague", and the reporter soon realizes that the truth may be harder to uncover than the lies.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, independent film
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Plot Summary:
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
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Communion (1989)
Plot Summary:
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating, spiritual, christmas horror, mindfuck
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful