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Plot Summary:
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, interesting
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Fear of the Dark (2003)
Plot Summary:
Twelve year old Ryan Billings has been diagnosed with an acute fear of the dark. He spends each night lying awake in torment, waiting and watching as the evil in the darkness grows stronger, feeding off his fear. His older brother Dale, suspects that there is nothing wrong with Ryan and that this is just a ploy for more attention. Regardless, he promises to watch over his little brother as their parents head off to a party for the night. Outside a storm rages and when the power goes out, darkness envelops the house. Ryan knows that tonight the evil has finally come to claim him. Dale desperately tries everything to try and calm him down, until the horrors in the dark make him realize Ryan had good reason to be so afraid!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, demonic, sad, mockbuster, slasher
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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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Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009)
Plot Summary:
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, independent film
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Blood Shack (1971)
Plot Summary:
A woman inherits an abandoned ranch whose estate is said to be haunted by "the Chooper," the sword-wielding ghost of a vengeance-seeking Indian, in this Ray Dennis Steckler shocker.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mindfuck, independent film, slasher, slasher horror, awful
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Seance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over Thanksgiving weekend, all but five students in an old Manhattan building that's now a college dormitory leave for home: staying on one floor are roommates Lauren, Melina, and Alison, plus her boyfriend Diego and Grant, a loner in a room down the hall. Lauren's been seeing things in her bathroom: a silent child of about six. Diego has written a paper on parapsychology, so he holds a séance with the disbelieving co-eds. Something goes awry, because bad things start to happen and the students' only defender is an aging campus cop named Syd. What's the silent ghostly girl's secret, and can Alison discover what's going on before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror, scary, slasher, semi serious
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Torture Chamber (2013)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Jimmy Morgan is possessed by an evil too powerful to be exorcised by any religion. After escaping from a mental institution, Jimmy is back with a vengeance - and an army of children who follow his every murderous desire.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, slasher, bleak, suspense, serious
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Grave Halloween (2013)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, suspense
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Plot Summary:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, psychological, bleak
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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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Death Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she starts to become unhinged and her paranoia overtakes every aspect of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, sexy
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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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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Dead Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends' impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable... or something entirely more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, touching, tense, suspense, slasher
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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Dead Mary (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a fun-filled getaway at a remote lake, teenager Kim (Dominique Swain) and her friends unwittingly unleash a murderous spirit when they make the mistake of playing the game 'Dead Mary' in this horror story. The body count rises as good friends are forced to hack each other to death, or face death themselves. Marie-Josee Colburn, Jefferson Brown, Steve McCarthy, Reagan Pasternak and Maggie Castle co-star.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, bleak, serious, psychotronic
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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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Shattered Lives (2009)
Plot Summary:
Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her adulterous mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, powerful, scary, serious
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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London Voodoo (2004)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family is tearing apart and that his wife's behavior becomes more violent and erratic, he accepts that to save the woman he married he must take a leap of faith. London Voodoo is one of the few films about voodoo to show the belief system in a positive light. Here, it's "work" that's evil. The film shows multicultural voodoo followers in a contemporary urban setting (London). As research for the script, the filmmakers travelled to Cuba, Miami and New Orleans to experience voodoo first hand.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychotronic
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Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Plot Summary:
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) decided to make an appearance. Dead bodies are piling up, and Mary seems to be calling the shots. But there are secrets about her past that have yet to be uncovered. Nate Dushku co-stars in this slasher flick.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, teen horror, independent film
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Spirit Trap (2005)
Plot Summary:
When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, gothic, suspense, sexy, tense
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The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks (2001)
Plot Summary:
John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get back at them using witchcraft - but doesn't realise that the price of his new-found power may be his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, homoerotic, gay cinema, campy
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Plot Summary:
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in apartment 1303. She finds a book telling the tragic story of the Yukiyo and her mother, the first tenants of the apartment and uncovers the truth behind the suicides.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, detective
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Plot Summary:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, spooky, independent film
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The Borderlands (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, lovecraft, suspense, slasher, disturbing