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Plot Summary:
A teen and her mother live simply in a home in the woods, spending their time making metal music. A chance encounter with a fellow teen causes her to uncover a connection between her family and witchcraft, which causes a rift with her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, tense, captivating, disturbing, satanic
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The Fear (1995)
Plot Summary:
A weekend of 'fear therapy' turns into a nightmare of terror when a mannequin comes to life. Only those with the courage to confront their demons will survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, independent film, serious, atmospheric, sexy
Similar in 87%
The Sacrifice (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of his father, 16-year-old Jonathan Kelly moves with his mother to the small New Hampshire town of Dunkirk. He is immediately drawn to David, a boy who shares his interest in the occult, and a tentative romance begins to develop between them. But when the boys try to learn the truth behind a local ghost story, they discover that someone is digging up graves in the oldest part of the cemetery, collecting human remains for a dark ritual...a ritual that will end in human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, disturbing
Similar in 89%
The Grandmother (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who raised her, has had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
Similar in 79%
Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Jakob's Wife (2021)
Plot Summary:
Anne is married to a small-town Minister and feels her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past 30 years. After a brutal and bloody encounter with "The Master", she discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. However, these changes come with a heavy body count and a toll on her marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, psychological, thrilling, spooky, weird
Similar in 81%
Camp Cold Brook (2018)
Plot Summary:
Strange events plague crew members of a reality TV show when they visit an infamous backwoods camp that was the site of a mass murder 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Summer Camp (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go terribly wrong real fast as a terrible game of tag has the campers running for their lives or going after the campers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, spooky, independent film, creepy, awful
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A Banquet (2021)
Plot Summary:
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gwen (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, slasher, demonic, bleak, psychotronic
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Land of the Minotaur (1976)
Plot Summary:
A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satanic, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 81%
The Devil's Hand (1961)
Plot Summary:
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satanic, suspense, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Deeper You Dig (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a roadside accident, the line between the living and the dead collapses for a mother, her daughter, and a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, creepy
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The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Plot Summary:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Medium (2021)
Plot Summary:
A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy, demonic, splatter, mockumentary, weird, fake documentary, asian horror
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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Plot Summary:
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, satanic, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, suspense
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 88%
One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, serious, awful
Similar in 77%
Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, serious
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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Moloch (2022)
Plot Summary:
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, slasher, satanic, creepy, lovecraft
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Return to Blood Fart Lake (2011)
Plot Summary:
Many years have passed since the tragic events at Blood Fart Lake, where Jimmy dispatched a bunch of party going, cabin dwelling kids before he could be stopped by Ben Scrivens & his red neck pal, Leo Dechamp. Now Jimmy has returned, this time preying on a group of "Spirit Hunters" searching for the truth to his killings, & Ben must track down Leo before they're added to his list of victims!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spoof, horror comedy
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The Blood Shed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sweet little tale about your average inbred, hillbilly, cannibal family residing in the northern part of New Jersey and how they deal with the day-to-day annoyances of encroaching suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
Similar in 76%
Children of the Corn (2020)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan, is the town's only hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror
Similar in 85%
The Witches (1966)
Plot Summary:
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, satanic, gothic, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, atmospheric, satanic, grindhouse, creepy
Similar in 85%
You Are Not My Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, intellectual, slasher, weird
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The Open Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
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Satanic (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, satanic, demonic, interesting, weird
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic