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Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, controversial, perverse, scary
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The Afflicted (2011)
Plot Summary:
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother (imdb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, scary, controversial, independent film, suspense
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Organ (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group's surgical headquarters. Numata barely escapes, while a wounded Tosaka gets left behind. Through a series of surreal and gory events, the identities of the organ dealers are revealed as Numata plans his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, scary, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, surreal, stylized
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Chain Reaction (2006)
Plot Summary:
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, independent film
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A Bloody Aria (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a day trip through the countryside, aspiring opera singer In-jeong flees to the woods to escape the advances of her lecherous professor and mentor, Yeong-sun. When a seemingly harmless local man offers her a ride to the bus station, In-jeong thinks she's been saved - until he insists that they stop to meet his friends, a disturbed group of country-bred thugs. In-jeong finds herself reunited with Yeong-sun and it slowly becomes clear that the pair is being held captive to participate in the gang's sadistic mind games. This film examines the power struggles that exist even at the lowest rung of society.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychedelic, suspense, black comedy, twisted, realistic
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Killers 2: The Beast (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
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Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
“Hunt for the I-5 Killer” is a dramatization based on the haunting true story of the yearlong manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. As Detective Dave Kominek (John Corbett) starts to discover similarities in the cases, he becomes determined to prove the seemingly unrelated killings are the work of one man. As the case unfolds and more victims come to light, a shocking twist comes into play – could the sadistic mass murderer possibly be a handsome, all-American athlete? The movie is from Ann Rule’s book, and also stars Sara Canning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Trauma (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, erotic, brutal, slasher
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Missing (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hyeon-jeong's sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister's cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help. Hyeong-jeong then finds a witness who thinks she saw her missing sister near the home of an elderly man Pan-kon. When Hyeong-jeong eventually arrives at the elderly man's home, her worst nightmares are to begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, splatter, twisted, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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The Unforgiving (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two survivors, who appear unwilling to answer questions, are the only links authorities have to a spate of attacks that have hit rural South Africa.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, psychedelic, bloody, disturbing, disgusting, independent film
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Hell's Highway (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off anyone who is foolish enough to stray into their deadly territory.Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak, road movie, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, awful
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Backwoods (2008)
Plot Summary:
While camping in Jasper Park up North California, the couple Tom Alan Smithee and Gwen Marie Holden are attacked by a group of strangers; Tom is immediately killed and Gwen is abducted by the men to an underground facility to breed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, scary, suspense
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Villa Captive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, serious, realistic, rough
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War Games (2010)
Plot Summary:
A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target and no one is safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, intelligent, scary, exciting, realistic
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Trigger Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, mumblecore, retro, scary, exciting, serious, realistic
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Scrapbook (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, controversial, bloody, suspense, dark, intense
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Zee-Oui (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1946 a young man from China named Zee-Oui immigrated to Thailand in hope of a better life. His only possession was the knife inherited from his mother. However, everything did not turn out as he had thought. He was bullied and humiliated from everyone around him. He tried desperately to survive in this world. He became ill. He missed his mother... At the same time, his instincts increasingly oppressed his thoughts and behaviors. He began killing children, consuming their heart and liver in the believe that it would make him stronger. Whenever he felt weak, he would kill again and again just to avoid the insecure feelings. At the end, he was caught and confessed to all the killings he had done. He was sentenced to the death penalty as the society returned to serenity. But why there were still missing and murdered children?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious
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Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Strange Circus (2005)
Plot Summary:
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary, mind bending, surprise ending, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological thriller
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Chaos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the psychotic Chaos. The girls are abused, tortured and raped in a night of nightmare and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: rough, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, dark, controversial, cult classic
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Bedevilled (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, slasher, bloody, psychological thriller, dark, splatter, scary
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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Path (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ana is a young woman who has just been given a scholarship to study in a foreign country. She decides to celebrate with their friends out of the city. On the road, after helping an injured woman, they are kidnapped by a weird family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" Leatherface, the story of real life serial killer Ed Gein is told once again. Nicknamed "The Butcher Of Plainfield," Gein was responsible for a rash of gory murders that sent shock waves through his rural Wisconsin town, and across America, in the late 1950's. Prepare to enter the evil mind and twisted world of "The Butcher Of Plainfield.".
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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The Seasoning House (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, spooky
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
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We Are What We Are (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, serious, intense
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The Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, twisted, controversial, psychological thriller, bloody
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Frontier(s) (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing, brutal, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, grindhouse
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led by Johnny, the town's service station owner, his two co-workers, Andy and Stanley, who along with their socially and mentally challenged friend Matthew, set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, bloody, controversial, harsh