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Plot Summary:
Six short stories. • Chain Mail • Left Behind • Tattoo • Viewfinder's Memory • Guardian Angel • Mortuary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, anthology, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Gut Instincts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gut Instincts contains four horrific little tales. Call Me is about a man who thinks a night of passion is in store, but when he gets home, what awaits him is far from passion. In Patterson Road, a group of teens ventures to a wooded area rumored to have a hidden cemetery. They should have been careful what they asked for because in this case, that's exactly what they got. Speaking Ill of the Dead has a basic theme that karma is a bitch. And Trip has Terra, a struggling alcoholic looking for anything to decrease her stress. In all of these tales, characters had a bad feeling, a gut instinct, about what they were doing, but they didn't listen and paid the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, anthology, independent film
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Hana-Dama (2014)
Plot Summary:
Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. With a guy named Shibanai (Syun Asada), Mizuki and Kirie decide to stand up to their tormentors. Mizuki though is badly beaten by Aya. Kirie and Shibanai are assaulted by teachers and endure shocking violence. Mizuki decides to get revenge. She wanders the street at night. At that time, Mizuki becomes possessed by a poisonous flower spirit. Madness of the flower spirit begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, weird, 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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Ura Horror (2008)
Plot Summary:
Found footage horror by Shiraishi Kôji.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anthology, mockumentary, bleak, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, fake documentary
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Chronicle of the After-School Wars (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is not Tag. It is not Battle Royale. It is Battle Royale Tag. Sena walks up to the school rooftop to return Yudachi's handkerchief. Yudachi is not there and Sena falls asleep waiting. It is dark, she is confined and locked up at her school when Sena wakes up. The school has turned bloody red and the girls have to fight to the death. Who will survive the carnage is up to the girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, unusual plot structure, asian horror
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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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Terror 66 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chapter One : Motel 666 - This rural desert motel offers the final check-out for many late night Route 66 travelers. Chapter Two : The Road To Hell - A small desert town harbors a dark secret in the form of a serial murderer destined to discover the most brutal and horrifying ways of killing human beings. True to an unspoken community truce, his voracious appetite for torture and death is relegated to outsiders traveling through town via Route 66. Chapter Three : The Grave of Bleu Chambers - Throughout the years, urban legend has it that the ghost of a small boy, killed by a speeding car decades earlier, is responsible for the sporadic disappearances of Route 66 travelers near an adjacent cemetery of which his body is interred.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, suspense, anthology
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The Source of Shadows (2020)
Plot Summary:
This horror anthology film depicts ten tales of horror from twelve visionary directors as they take us on a journey to experience one of humanity’s most carnal fears; the fear of the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, tense, bleak, gothic horror, disturbing, exciting
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Where the Skin Lies (2017)
Plot Summary:
Six people bound together by a traumatic experience decide to round off a year of group therapy in style. They join each other once more, traveling up to the Scottish Lowlands for a reunion weekend in a 1970s holiday let. Soon a number of mysterious and horrifying events start to expose the cracks in their relationships, and one by one they discover that trust runs but skin-deep. A night of closure turns out to be far more final than they could have anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Sanguivorous (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments is horrified to discover that she’s descended from generations of vampires. When with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it’s in her blood….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, black and white, silent, silent film
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Skagit (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape begins to warp their minds, plunging each of them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, experimental
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Sijjin 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. And this beings don't want anyone in the house, but Saadet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, realistic, dark fairy tale, asian horror
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Femmes Fatales (2011)
Plot Summary:
(Japanese with English subtitles) Three tales of jealousy, greed and lust about the most heinous crimes committed in Japan by women.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, anthology
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Barrio Tales (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Against the Devil (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic death of her eldest son, Blanca and her family travel to the coast of Chile. Weird things happen in the new house, Blanca thinks that it is her son trying to communicate with them, but the truth is much worse. An evil spirit with a thirst for revenge is stalking them. Only the town priest can help them, but the man of the cloth is hiding a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror
Country: Chile
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful
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Teke Teke (2009)
Plot Summary:
The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, asian horror
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Tormented (2011)
Plot Summary:
To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, psychological, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, clever, atmospheric, serious
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Teke Teke 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Nightmare in Psycho Town (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three teens are forced to spend the night at the house on Hollow Road. They eventually learn that each one of them has been having recurring nightmares. Nightmares that could only take place in the mind of a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, anthology
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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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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet (2005)
Plot Summary:
When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, anthology, detective, weird
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Death Count (2022)
Plot Summary:
Strangers awaken in individual holding cells with no memory of how they arrived. They realize if they don't acquire enough online "likes" in a timely manner, they'll die horribly at the hands of a sinister executioner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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Undertaker (2012)
Plot Summary:
The dead return to life as cruel predators - the so-called "returners" have spread all over the world. Only a few survivors succeeded in escaping from this madness. They are submerged in remote areas, because the cities were completely occupied by the returners. There is only one person who still daggers in the cities: the Undertaker. A dark hero, a champion of the battlefield and equipped for the world after the apocalypse, starts his own personal revenge campaign.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, manga, asian horror
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 5 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Convinced of the final outcome, a team of scientists travels back in time to stop the spread of a virus turning men into zombified rapists through society and causes them to finally uncover the source of the deadly disease which causes them to attempt to stop it before it happens again.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, splatter
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Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, dark fairy tale, horror musical, psychological
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Premonition (2004)
Plot Summary:
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, scary
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
Plot Summary:
An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, terrifying