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Plot Summary:
When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending
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Haunted Office (2002)
Plot Summary:
Employees working at a high rise building begin encountering a series of strange occurrences. Ken, a recent hire who attracts to the lovely, but spiritually harried Shan. Meanwhile, Pat is apparently terrorized by the evil demon who resides in the last stall of the woman's bathroom. And Richard, a mean boss of another company in the same building, wants to get rid of his long-time employee Mary and begins to suspect that his entire staff has become ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending
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New Blood (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young couple engage in a suicide pact, and slit their wrists together. However, only the woman, who is already suffering from cancer, dies. Three donors give her lover a life-saving blood transfusion. Each of the three has a rare blood type, and each has his, or her, own secrets. The trio become a target for the girl's vengeful spirit. Before matters are set right, the three victims will have been forced to donate far more than their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, serious, surprise ending
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3 Doors of Horrors (2013)
Plot Summary:
3 horror shorts from Malaysia I Miss You Two: School life is one of the most interesting moments in a lifetime. Some people, some things, will forever be carved in one’s memory. Floating Sun: The novelist, Fiona Lim, is writing a true story of a teenage girl who drowned in a river many years ago. Horror Mission: A local film crew is shooting a horror film in the suburb when the actress playing the ghost is suddenly possessed by a spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, creepy
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Wake The Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college student called Victor wants to reverse death.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Art of the Devil 3 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Years after teacher Panor's (Napakpapha Nakprasitte) affair with student Ta's (Namo Tongkumnerd) father led to the death of his mother, Daun (Paweena Chariffsakul), other family members use black magician Dis (Supakorn Kitsuwon) to shift Daun's soul into Panor's body. Things go wrong, and soon bloody havoc visits the family. Meanwhile, Dis pursues Panor's three-eyed devil, wanting to possess its powers himself in this gore-filled spine-chiller.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, saga, disturbing, demonic, terrifying, surprise ending
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Ritual (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of one patient. She's facing the possibility of not get any job when she accepts to be the nurse for one young man who suffers of cephallitis called Wesley Claybourne. Aside from the sickness he's suffering Wesley believes he has been "touched" by some voodoo cult. While she stays in Jamaica, Dr. Dodgson will feel uncomfortable as she discovers that voodoo is not only a "state of mind" and could be a real threat to her life and Wesley's. She'll have to discover why she and her patient are targets of the voodoo curse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, erotic, suspense, anthology, horror comedy, creepy
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Sadako (2019)
Plot Summary:
A girl with amnesia and under mysterious police guard is placed under the care of Mayu Akigawa, a psychology counselor. At the same time, Mayu’s younger brother Kazuma Akigawa becomes a YouTuber to try and awaken Sadako’s curse.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, enigmatic, asian horror
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Haunted House on Sorority Row (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling sorority has just purchased their new home, but the inexpensive beat up house has a history no one could imagine. Now as they move in and continue their college lives something evil is making itself known by affecting their minds... and bodies.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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The Spade County Massacre (2011)
Plot Summary:
Years ago "The Order of Attollo" ravaged the small community of Spade County. It was through the brave leadership of Sheriff Stone Williams (Rex Sikes) that eventually brought the end to the order. It was the end to a terrifying era in Spade County. Recently, several teenagers were found dead with no leads and nothing other than several bizarre pieces of evidence. The sole survivor and prime suspect Doug Porter (Mark Mundt) had suffered psychological damage and could not give an account of what happened. The Spade County Massacre, as it came to be called remained a mystery. Sheriff Stone Williams' investigation concluded the murders were committed by Charlie Zorborski, a disturbed teenager who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Doug Porter was no longer considered a suspect by Sheriff Williams and became a free man. However public opinion feels Williams made a mistake and Doug Porter was guilty. Today, Sheriff Stone Williams searches for answers to new bizarre and grizzly.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slasher, psychotronic, scary, independent film, cult film
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Don't Look Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Japan, South Africa
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, terrifying
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Restoration (2016)
Plot Summary:
During home renovations, a young couple release a fiery spirit seeking retribution. To save themselves and set the spirit free, they must uncover the dire truth. But nothing is as simple as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, mysterious
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Tomie: Replay (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her name is Tomie, and she is in the process of regenerating herself. Though you may try, Tomie cannot be killed. She will return to seduce and to kill. Infected with Tomie's blood, the surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, tense
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The Exorcism of Carmen Farias (2021)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, a brave journalist, discovers soon after her mother's death that she has inherited her grandma's house. She decides to move there without knowing it hides dark secrets.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Living Hell (2000)
Plot Summary:
Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gore and the atmospheric Hammer films. Chiyo, an old woman and her granddaughter, Yuki, are the sole survivors of a horrendous crime which wipes out an entire family. They find solace under the roof of far-removed relatives. The family's son, confined to a wheelchair, has a terrible premonition when the two women arrive, which will be verified in the most horrifying way. Because, when the house is empty, the boy is made to suffer sadistic games at the women mercy, which become more and more violent making his life a living hell... Written by Leo Urbina.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, scary, serious, realistic
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It Lives Inside (2018)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Jeff Hall; starring Rett Terrell, Alissa Rose Ford, Liam Rose, Laurie Cummings, Christian R. Black, Philip W. Paz, Justin Hendrix, Bill Brewer, and Briana Looby. A chronic sleepwalker reads from a mysterious book that foretells his impending demonic possession. He then struggles to hold his family together as the ancient evil threatens to consume everything he holds dear.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Demon Mind (2017)
Plot Summary:
An ancient demon head and a pair of demonic battle axes transforms a collector into a hideous and barbaric demon who slaughters any soul caught in his blood thirsty eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film
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Letter from Death (2020)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, gothic
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Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki household who tells her about what happened to her sister. Mai will now uncover the dark secrets of Ju-on and will try to end the curse once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, enigmatic
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Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019)
Plot Summary:
Saki, Anju, Chiaki, Ami, and Kaya reunite for the first time in years. The five of them excitedly decide to go Toshimaen Amusement Park, a place that was very important to them when they were younger. None of them know that they're about to enter a nightmare….
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground. Soon Hideo winds up a bloody mess in the bathroom stall, and his two compatriots are assaulted with a series of bizarre events in which Tomie possesses other girls' bodies, winds up a yammering severed head with claw-like arms, and taunts them no matter how often they kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, surprise ending
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The Ouija Exorcism (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, a celebrated exorcist trapped a horrific demon inside a ouija board. Thinking the board to be a game, his son played without obeying the rules, and let the demon loose. In order to save his son, the exorcist sent him far away until the demon could be destroyed. Thirty years later, and after his death, his grandson finds the board and makes the same mistake his father did. Now the evil is back and roaming the earth to terrorize those responsible for its imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Vatican Exorcisms (2013)
Plot Summary:
Documentary following US film-maker Joe Marino as he heads to Italy to investigate exorcisms and the truth behind rumors of demonic possession.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, demonic, scary, bleak, disturbing
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01 - Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)
Plot Summary:
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama Chika) and cameraman Tashiro (Shiraishi) work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary
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The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Plot Summary:
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a sense that something evil is taking over the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic
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The Entity (2015)
Plot Summary:
THE RING goes ‘found footage’ Peruvian in a terrific example of the continually igniting South American new horror wave. A group of media students embark on a documentary project covering ‘Reaction Videos’ - filming people watching intense shock footage online to monitor their psychological effect. And they find one example so terrifying the viewers have all died in mysterious circumstances. But what exactly is on this gruesome Internet footage? Their search leads to an obscure corner of cyberspace known as the Dark Web, a Quechua curse dating from the Spanish Inquisition and a demonic power they cannot escape from.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, crying, independent film, mockumentary
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Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Devil Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, demonic, suspense, rough, serious, satanic, terrifying, captivating, disturbing
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Beyond the Door II (1977)
Plot Summary:
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, satanic, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, slasher, mystic
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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, splatter
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Chasing the Devil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick McCord doesn't accept the explanation of his sister's mysterious death as suicide, and instead teams up with a team of paranormal investigators to delve deeper into the inexplicable circumstances that surround what he believes to be murder. The team's investigation leads them from one bizarre and frightening clue to another, at the center of which seems to exist something evil and terrifying, a presence well beyond their wildest imaginations and experiences. Before long, they realize this deadly entity has now targeted each of them, and they are confronted with the impossible challenge of defeating it and saving their own lives. In the end, what survives, and is presented here, is the disturbing footage that Patrick and his team shot, footage that if seen by others, likely endangers the viewer, marking them as the next victim of this powerful and evil force. Be careful what you chase - you just might end up catching it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, mockumentary, tense, psychological, suspense, demonic, scary, rough