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Plot Summary:
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who is investigating in the mysterious deaths of people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep-paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath, and soon finds herself, and her family suffering from an ancient evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Seeds (2018)
Plot Summary:
When his increasingly depraved behavior spirals out of control, Marcus retreats to his family home along the New England coast. But instead of finding solace, Marcus is haunted by his darkest fears and deepest desires.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Human Resources (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a woman takes a new job, she discovers the skyscraper she works in is haunted by victims of a corporation's pursuit of profit. Unable to ignore injustice embodied by the disembodied, she sets out to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sad, political thriller, independent film
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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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Lampor: The Flying Coffin (2019)
Plot Summary:
Edwin and Netta with their two children, Adam and Sekar going to Netta's hometown at Temanggung. Netta were suspected as the cause of Lampor terror at her hometown, a demon who bring a flying casket.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, twisted
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Paranormal Adoption (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple loses their only child in an accident and subsequently unknowingly adopts an innocent looking little girl with paranormal powers that she uses to fulfill her twisted desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, independent film
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The Whistler: Origins (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is the story of a mysterious specter, which the people of the town have baptized as "El SilbĂłn". In the current age, we know a family made up of Gabriel and Mayra, Ana's parents. Gabriel suspects that his daughter is possessed by the devil since she is trying to kill him. Gabriel asks the priest of his parish for advice, which is the same one Father Giovanni wrote about the SilbĂłn over a hundred years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Venezuela
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense
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I Know You're in There (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Baphomet (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hollow Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Echoes of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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
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I-Lived (2015)
Plot Summary:
Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone... but essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Munafik 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ustaz Adam has to help a friend whose village is corrupted by a group of misguided religionists lead by a sinister sorcerer. To make matter worse, Adam himself is also being mysteriously haunted by evil apparitions that keeps disturbing him from time to time.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Deadly Revisions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Occurrence at Mills Creek (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl awakens to a nightmare as her pleas to be seen and heard by her sister are taken as supernatural occurrences in this stylistic and suspenseful short that is now a full-length feature film.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
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Return (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is freed, relocated to her own flat and given a chance to be independent. Once alone things are not what they all seem and when her nightmares turn real she questions her state of mind before she is left to face her demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
A collection of gut-twisting and nerve-shredding tales, all Frankstein’d together to form a feature-length monster of the best and bloodiest in short-film horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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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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Hell Hole (2013)
Plot Summary:
When two of the world's biggest slackers accidentally open the door to hell, they have to figure out a way to close it before hell's monsters destroy the earth, and their babes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Brimstone Incorporated (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone Incorporated features three ghoulish tales of terror and a wraparound, the latter centering around a law firm that serves as the gateway to Hell. Stories include Mama's Boy, First Date and Skunk Weed,.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Separation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Sleep No More (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Observance (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Gates of Darkness (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Offseason (2021)
Plot Summary:
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, atmospheric, slasher, surreal
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Aaron's Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
Single father Aaron fights to save his 12-year-old hemophiliac son after becoming infected with vampire blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Lurking Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Supernatural Drama about an addictive woman who is given a chance at redemption if she accepts Death's offer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic