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Plot Summary:
A first person account of Ross Graves, an alcoholic drifter who is constantly hunted by demonic bounty hunters and a spiritual being to whom he sold his soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: neo noir, ambiguous ending, scary, captivating, suspense, contemplative, experimental, independent film, biting
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Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental, splatter, avant garde
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Made Me Do It (2017)
Plot Summary:
College student Ali Hooper and her little brother are attacked by a masked maniac, and the key to them surviving the night lies in unlocking a secret from the killer's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, experimental, bizarre
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Archenemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a powerful champion, no one believes Max’s claims — except for a teenager named Hamster and his sister Indigo. The siblings convince Max to help them take out a local drug gang, where Max’s abilities are put to a violent and harrowing test.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, independent film
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Darling (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: black and white, mumblecore, suspense, psychological, captivating, slasher, art house, tense, scary, psychological thriller
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The Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lucid (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sacrament (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leaving the city behind for a weekend of booze, bud and bonding at the coast, seven friends find themselves stranded en route to South Padre Island when a big storm interferes with their plans. The town of Middle Spring is more than happy to welcome them with open arms, however; located in the rhinestone buckle of the Bible Belt, Middle Spring is smack-dab in the middle of a big barbecue and tent revival and there’s always room at their table for a few more warm bodies. Unfortunately, no one in Middle Spring is exactly who they seem to be— this town takes the Bible quite literally, and the friends have to stick together as time begins to run out and they realize that what’s on the menu may be closer to home than they suspected.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Plot Summary:
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, splatter, apocalyptic, cult classic
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Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vine, a disillusioned demon, is forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl. Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is destroyed. The demon population must rise up and take all necessary steps for survival or their species will cease to exist. The battle for the Earth has begun. Vine, a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl, the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dreamkatcher (2020)
Plot Summary:
Gail is forced to come to terms with Josh, her new stepson, at a remote country home. After stealing an evil talisman from a mysterious neighbor, Josh has sinister dreams of his dead mother, who commands Josh to murder Gail. When Josh's dad returns, he and Gail suspect that their son has been possessed by an ancient, bloodthirsty spirit. Is it too late to save Josh's life — or their own?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, splatter, minimal cast, supernatural thriller
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The Frozen (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a harrowing snowmobile accident, a young couple is stranded in the woods and must survive while waiting for help to arrive. Events take a turn for the worse after the disappearance of Emma's boyfriend, leaving her on her own not only to battle the elements, but also to elude a mysterious hunter who is tracking her through the forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, slasher, minimal cast, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, exciting
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Versus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, bloody, serious, psychotronic, splatter
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The Echo Game (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Wildling (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sentimental, spooky, scary, bloody, twisted, psychotronic
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Skull Forest (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four female friends embark on a weekend camping expedition into the woods. Things go horribly awry when the quartet runs afoul of a group of wicked rich folks who enjoy hunting humans for sport. Will any of these ladies make it out of the forest alive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Muse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A painter's life is forever changed when a mythical and deadly spirit from Celtic lore – a Leannán Sí – becomes his muse and lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, fairy tale
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Cuervo is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on a reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation. With his time nearly finished, he plans to start a new life with his girlfriend Lily , and leave the town for good. But Luc Crash and Lola Byrne head up a local gang of local Satanists who murder Jimmy and Lily in a brutal ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, serious, futuristic, slasher, suspense, neo noir, independent film
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Hideaway (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, light, cult classic, serious, psychological thriller, gothic
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Dread (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, surprise ending, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, slasher
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark fantasy, enigmatic, suspense, twist ending, gothic, surprise ending, psychological, scary, psychological thriller
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Primordial (2015)
Plot Summary:
Valerie Graves, a misanthropic, disillusioned woman in her mid-twenties, is haunted by sadistic urges that she has struggled to repress since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, tense, suspense, independent film, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Craig (2008)
Plot Summary:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, slasher, detective, cult film
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The Ugly (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological horror, slasher, controversial, mindfuck
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. The terrifying truth is that he could be anywhere, or anybody. In this shocking, blood-soaked finale to Jason's carnage-ridden reign of terror, the horrible secret of his unstoppable killing instinct is finally revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, sexy, surprise ending, suspense, retro, controversial, anime, cult horror
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The Empty Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a horrific secret that puts his life—and the lives of those close to him—in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful, detective, scary, slasher, philosophical, atmospheric
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, suspense, psychological, satanic, gothic, dark, creepy
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American Backwoods: Slew Hampshire (2013)
Plot Summary:
In June of 1994, one of the most brutal mass slaughters in history occurred in the backwoods of northern New England. Four months later, history is about to repeat itself. The end of summer signals the brink of manhood for a group of lifelong friends who proudly call New Hampshire their home. But when they embark upon a local rite of passage - traveling north for one final weekend of debauchery together - it just might prove to be their final weekend PERIOD, as this rite is doomed to go frightfully wrong. When they find themselves ensnared in a struggle for survival amongst a sinister hunting party, a bloodthirsty tribe AND a mythical beast, what began as a comedy of errors devolves into an all-out Darwinian duel to the death, and less than 24 hours will pass before a slew of lives have been claimed and the last of the living remains.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, bizarre
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Antichrist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, bleak, art house, minimal cast, sexy, dark