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Plot Summary:
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, minimal cast, lovecraft, spooky, terrifying, independent film, suspenseful
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Muse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, dark, dark fantasy, independent film, mystic
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Downrange (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stranded at the side of the road after a tire blowout, a group of friends become targets for an enigmatic sniper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, cliffhanger, mumblecore, disturbing, splatter, corny
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Dark Floors (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Iceland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, mind twisting, slasher, psychological, mind bending, suspense
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Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, scary, funny, brutal, sensual, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Night Wolf (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, rough, serious, slasher, perverse
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When Animals Dream (2014)
Plot Summary:
The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, dark, social, art house, spooky
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Last Passenger (2013)
Plot Summary:
Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense, action thriller, independent film, fast
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The Relic (1997)
Plot Summary:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, splatter, tense, art house, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult horror
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Dark Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, slasher, humorous, crying, horror comedy, weird, urban fantasy
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The Devil Below (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, weird
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Dracula 2000 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, sexy, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, cult classic, exciting, fairy tale, dark
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Skinwalkers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, erotic, dark, psychotronic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Train to Busan (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, emotional, tense, bloody, psychotronic, suspenseful, dark, scary, touching
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Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, sexy, serious
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The Pyramid (2014)
Plot Summary:
A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become desperate to seek daylight again. They come to realize they aren't just trapped, they are being hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, intense, atmospheric, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, psychological, mystical, mystic
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The Ritual (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, spooky, disturbing, scary, tense, enigmatic, slasher, lovecraft, atmospheric
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Head Count (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a weekend getaway to Joshua Tree, a group of teenagers find themselves under mental and physical assault from a supernatural entity that mimics their appearances as it completes an ancient ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, scary, intense, bloody, grindhouse, brutal, slasher
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Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)
Plot Summary:
The wolves are howling once again, as a terrifying ancient evil emerges in Beacon Hills. Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an Alpha, must gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against this powerful and deadly enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Bad Moon (1996)
Plot Summary:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, retro, psychological horror, creepy, classic horror, serious
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Evil Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the discovery of a Book of the Dead unwittingly summon up dormant demons which possess the youngsters one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, splatter, creepy, demonic, atmospheric, rough
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Wer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, independent film, cult film
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Dog Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, serious, dark, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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The Wolfman (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, dark, period piece, gothic horror, scary, bloody, splatter, cult classic, exciting
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REC (2007)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, disturbing, creepy, frightening, psychological, atmospheric
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The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter
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30 Days of Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, cult classic, suspense, atmospheric, gothic, splatter, bloody, brutal, slasher
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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Plot Summary:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, scary, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, splatter, disturbing, tense
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 443000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, surreal, twist ending, bloody, slasher, suspenseful, horror comedy, surprise ending, suspense