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Plot Summary:
Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the truth and understand the infernal happenings of which there are many.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968)
Plot Summary:
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror musical, suspense thriller
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Premonition (1972)
Plot Summary:
A student hippie and his friends share deadly premonitions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Two on a Guillotine (1965)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, psychological horror, psychological
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Forever (1992)
Plot Summary:
A hot-shot music video director moves into a haunted house, where he's seduced and possessed by two alluring and sexy women. One, a beautiful ghost, the other his lustful agent. Torn between the here-and-now and the supernatural... will he find true love or forever be alone?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Encounter with the Unknown (1972)
Plot Summary:
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother forecasts the deaths of the three young men she holds responsible, on 7, 14, and 21 days hence. And, one by one, her grim predictions come true. Next, a ghoulish sound emanates from a mist-shrouded hole in the Earth near where a Missouri boy has lost his dog. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! Finally, a senator returning home from a party finds a lost girl on a bridge and learns from her father that she died years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, psychotronic, independent film, anthology
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Fear Has 1000 Eyes (1970)
Plot Summary:
A priest, Sven, and his wife Anna live in a lonely vicarage in northern Sweden. Anna has been suffering from nervous trouble. With them lives her "self-sacrificing" friend Hedvig. Hedvig is a complicated character. At first sight she exposes dark sides. She has sworn her self to the devil, by carving a bloody cross onto her body. Hedvig is successfully performing a lot of sorceries, several of them with a strong erotic meaning Thus she sneaks naked to the priest's bed during night. Leaning over him she kisses his body. Sven is moving uneasily in his sleep but does not wake up. Carefully she sits astride him. There is a night of lust. Anna fins herself soon entangled in a net of wickedness.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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School-Live! (2019)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, manga, psychotronic, asian horror
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Corpse Prison: Part 1 (2017)
Plot Summary:
From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated community? Despite the fact that Mayor Amano and the other all male residents have enthusiastically welcomed her and the other three coeds attending Professor Ashihara’s overnight seminar, Mikoto can’t shake the sense of increasing dread that consumes her. Something horrible has happened here. Something that is about to happen again. Because the town has been waiting for her. And the other girls. From the pages of the hit online manga published in Web Comic Gamma, the nightmare is about to begin!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bizarre, asian horror
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The House of Exorcism (1975)
Plot Summary:
A total re-edit of Mario Bava's gothic classic Lisa and the Devil (1973) for US release in 1975. Cheesy exorcism scenes were shot to try to capitalize on the success of The Exorcist (1973).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychotronic
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Alison's Birthday (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Caveat (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, creepy, weird
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The Covenant (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Revenge of the Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and notices that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who, in the 1950s, discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them. Stefano's investigations bring him into contact with a group of renegade scientists who are still carrying out experiments in an effort to prove Zeder's theories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious
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Remember Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rose awakes in an unknown house following a serious car accident with memory loss and no ability to walk. Her Mother and boyfriend are there to help her. Rose wants to piece together her life before the accident. All is not what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Death Moon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that's where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn't know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo clan. Every night he transforms into a werewolf and horribly slays young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Another (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, anime, weird
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Joker Game (2012)
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All seniors at a high school stay together at a camp, including student Chinatsu. On their first day, the home room teacher announces that all the students must play the card game "Old Maid". In order to reverse the declining academic abilities of its younger generation, the Japanese government planned this camping program. In this card game, the students that lose will meet their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Corpse Party (2015)
Plot Summary:
Facing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to close after a series of gruesome murders. What fate awaits Naomi and her friends at the cursed school...?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, manga
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Pet Peeve (2013)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle accident in the city will be the precursor to a series of bizarre phenomena being revealed consecutively. Meanwhile, a girl named Yoko possesses a second sight which allows her to see strange things invisible to others.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Kitaro and the Millennium Curse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro and his friends investigate these mysterious cases when they meet Kaede Hiramoto, a high school girl who finds herself involved in this mystery. With the help from the librarian of Yokai Library, they find out that the curse was caused by an evil Yokai that was released from 1,000 years of sealing. To save Kaede, they are to gather the 5 ancient musical instruments and perform the ritual to seal the evil Yokai again, which has to be done within 48 hours!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: manga
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Eko Eko Azarak II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to 'Wizard of Darkness' to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. 'Birth of the Wizard' begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches and wizards. I say former, because someone seems to have slaughtered them. Skip to the present day, and an archaeologist discovers a mummy from the village. Blissfully unaware that the mummy is, in fact, possessed by an evil spirit (naturally), he runs off, leaving his assistant alone. The mummy comes to life, kills her, and the evil spirit takes over her body. This evil spirit is now searching for Misa, who is protected by Kyle Reese, It is Misa's destiny to defeat this evil spirit, but she needs Saiga's help to do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Z (2014)
Plot Summary:
A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Tomie (1998)
Plot Summary:
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: manga, detective, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, weird
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Reincarnation (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, spooky, surprise ending, mind bending, dark, slasher
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One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, slasher, surprise ending, detective
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Three (2002)
Plot Summary:
Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and discovers her mutilated body in a large bag in his home (Korea). The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires, deaths, physical pain and a little girl to be possessed (Thailand). Going Home: A father goes in search of his missing son and is abducted by a strange man. The strangers wife has died of cancer three years prior but he keeps her in his apartment under the impression she will 'wake up' (Hong Kong).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, surreal, dark fairy tale, serious
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One Missed Call (2003)
Plot Summary:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark fantasy, creepy, frightening, slasher
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Ring (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy, suspense, psychological, twist ending, intense
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Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ajin is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises he is a type of immortal known as Ajin (demi-human). Hunted by humans, Ajin is eventually found by the government and used as a subject in cruel experiments. He finds fellow demi-humans along the way as he escapes and goes on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic, exciting, suspense, intense, epic, manga