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Plot Summary:
Robertito falls in love with Helen. Gabriel is jealous of his brother being the favorite son of their mother so he makes Helen fall in love to him. Robertito is heartbroken. Aurora asks Julie, who is in love with Robertito, to bring comfort and love to Robertito. When Robertito learns about the arrangement, he speed off, meet an accident and dies. Aurora refuses to accept that his favorite son has died so she made a great pact with Lucio to bring Robertito back to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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Until Death (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Emma catches her husband, Martin, with another woman, she files for divorce. As she begins her new life, Martin stalks her, his anger turning to madness when she looks to their friend John for comfort. After a brutal fight with John, Martin is killed in a car crash as he races away from the scene. But now Emma's true nightmare begins as the ghost of her dead husband haunts her from the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tiyanak (1988)
Plot Summary:
Julie begins to suspect that an abandoned baby she takes in may be a demon in disguise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: mystic
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Shake Rattle and Roll 12 (2010)
Plot Summary:
The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, anthology, exciting
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Be Careful of... Spells (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mira survives a car accident, and awakens without a memory of her past. As she is regaining pieces of her life with husband Paul and blind daughter Sophie, her business associate Dave convinced her to leave her husband as what she promised her before the accident. However, the situations go more weird as strange things start to occur in her home. Mira is forced to confront her past and discover the real story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Woman with Butterfly Tattoo (1978)
Plot Summary:
A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: splatter, psychotronic, asian horror
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The Sign (2007)
Plot Summary:
Louie receives a text message from the province that his father Ulding had a heart attack. Louie rushes to drive home from Manila only to find out that the message was nothing but a prank. Louie then senses something eerie about his hometown. He finds out there have been several killings in the area all done in the same manner. Apparently, the victim first hears some rumbling noise that is before they are found dead all covered with mud. When the killings move closer to home and threatens Louie’s family, he discovers for himself how he had been estranged from his roots and now must face his past with the horror of what is to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, touching, captivating
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Prey (2019)
Plot Summary:
A girl paralyzed. A rabid dog. A duel to death for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, road movie, crying
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What We Did That Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is uncovered by recent digging in the area. Now a lot older and bitter about going to prison Henry has planned revenge on his old friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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White House (2010)
Plot Summary:
6 eager contestants enter a pinoy horror-reality show to survive till daybreak of horror inside the famous Laperal White House in Baguio City. A million pesos is at stake but as the first night draws to a close and each one is being found dead, everyone realizes their lives are also on the line. It is up to spirit medium Jet (Gabby Concepcion) to find out what exactly is going on and who is the real enemy among he many ghosts that haunt the place, which includes a powerful Black Lady who abducted the soul of Jet’s only daughter. A chance of a lifeline with no lifelines… who will survive in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tagalog
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Haunted House (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romano and his men are ambushed in one military operation. Romano almost gets killed but wakes up after staying in coma for several days. His life will never be the same again. He resigns from the military and goes into seclusion in their Baguio ancestral house after realizing that he now has a supernatural gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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TxT (2006)
Plot Summary:
A provocative thriller that will surely raise the fear in you. Proving that no one, not even DEATH can separate us from the living. A story that conquers the old adage "till death do us part", Roman (Oyo Boy Sotto) dies in a car accident. In a restless and unforgiving state he continues to prove his affection for girlfriend Joyce (Angel Locsin) . He then decides to embark in an intrepid and malevolent journey in order to keep Joyce. Joyce then began receiving hair raising text messages and even gets "death photos" of people close to her, including that of her current beau Alex (Dennis Trillo). She ignores these at first, but when the deaths happen under the exact circumstances at which they were predicted, she realizes she must fight the evil behind all these to protect her loved ones from this supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Soul Looting (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him know about that situation. But after a while, she gets to know why those hallucinations became a part of her being.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Asero (1995)
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Hearse (1980)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, psychological, tense
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Dead of Night (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young soldier who was thought to be killed in the line of duty in Vietnam returns home shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of his family. Upon his return, he exhibits strange, withdrawn behavior and begins wandering the streets at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, scary, independent film, disturbing, intellectual, bad ending, suspense, surreal
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Shake, Rattle & Roll 13 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An old man Lando (Ronnie Lazaro) has buried something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white people. The chieftain (Manu Respall) demands Lando to give back something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely killed him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Matrimony (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary, serious, realistic, asian horror
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The White Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
A camping trip for a group of friends turns into an unexpected nightmare when one of them encounters a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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House of Forbidden Secrets (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Hunt has had some very bad breaks in life. His wife left him, his friends have all abandoned him, and his children barely see him! Jacob has been given an amazing gift and the chance he needs to get back on his feet and start anew. Jacob has landed the job of overnight security officer at the old ShadowView Manor. It has now been turned into a commercial office and retail building. Jacob is about to learn nights around the old Manor contains many secrets. A dark past that is breaking through the boundaries of time, leaking into this dimension. As luck would have it, Jacob's first night on the job is the anniversary of a dark tragedy that has stained the building.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, satanic
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Feng shui (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the most unfortunate day of her life, Joy picks up a package left by a stranger in a bus. It is called ‘ba-gua’, (feng shui mirror) an item that drives bad luck away. Joy could not refuse the luck that continues to come her way until everything appears too good to be true. Unexplained events disturb her family’s peace . People start to die as well. Having been advised by the geomancer to simply say no to the next form of luck, all Joy could do now is wait. But what painful decision awaits her? Will Joy prevail or be consumed by the curse of the bagua mirror?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky, terrifying, realistic
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Intrusion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Holly Jensen leads an overly dramatic life. It's one that is spent trying to avoid her problems and forget the past. Best friend Kali has the perfect solution to making Holly feel better. It's a game called "Wrong Number". However, the man on the other end finds the joke less than funny and decides to play a game of his own. A game where Holly will become the pawn. It's a character-driven thriller where everything has consequences and something as beautiful as a rose can be turned into any woman's, worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, tension, cult film
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Depraved (2019)
Plot Summary:
A field surgeon who suffers from PTSD after combat in the Middle East, and creates a living human out of body parts in his Gowanus, Brooklyn lab.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, experimental, mumblecore, horror comedy
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Lost Souls (2000)
Plot Summary:
A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, satanic, gothic, controversial, apocalyptic, twisted, atmospheric
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Dead of Winter (1987)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, neo noir, christmas horror, twisted, serious, realistic
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Clownface (2019)
Plot Summary:
A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Raccoon Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Victimized (2014)
Plot Summary:
Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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The Night Watchman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jack wants to prove to his wife Alma, that he is a new man after his drug abuse and time spend in prison. He is offered new job as a night watchman of an old mine complex, which he accepts without a question. What no one knows that the dark place holds a disturbing secret that will fill their lives with terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful
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Ghost Story (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, light, psychological, exciting, serious
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Contracted (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl contracts what she thinks is a sexually-transmitted disease - but is actually something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough, controversial, slasher