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Plot Summary:
The shocking story of Joel Rifkin, a troubled young man whose hidden fantasies of power and control combined with his obsessive dedication to prostitutes led him to embark on one of the New York area’s most notorious murder sprees, claiming seventeen victims in the late eighties and early nineties.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Coyote (2014)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac writer's sleep-deprived hallucinations distort reality as paranoia drives him to extreme violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, controversial, cult horror
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The Yearly Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist named Jin Maddison has traced the origin of many Christmas traditions to a remote town in the Midwest called Selah. Years ago another famous journalist died in an accident there while investigating the same story. Jin travels to Selah hoping to unravel the mystery, suspicious of a darker truth behind the festive holiday. Upon arrival she's stunned by the lack of decorations, lights, and signs, as well as the refusal of most locals to even talk about 'Christmas'. After a violent encounter she's saved by Private Investigator Amy Carson, who is trailing several Missing Persons cases that have led her to Selah. As they continue prying, they realize that the secrets Selah is hiding are far more terrifying than they could've ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, fairy tale, detective
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Purgatory Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father’s modest nest egg, Travis grows up blaming himself for his parents’ suicide. Becoming a priest who operates a highway confessional with his ambivalent brother, Michael, he offers sage advice to chosen sinners while raining death on unrepentant thieves. Into the world of this antagonistic duo comes Mary Francis, a deranged young woman with psychopathic tendencies who kills a thief who threatens to expose the decidedly un-holy siblings. Filled with gratitude, Travis invites the woman into their sacred world which begins a chain of carnage-laced events that threaten to destroy the brothers’ bloody, decades-long partnership.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial, religious horror
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Webcast (2018)
Plot Summary:
Stranded in the suburbs, student filmmaker Chloe begins to make a documentary about her family's troubled past. Whilst filming, she and best friend Ed, witness an hysterical girl appearing to escape from a neighbour's house, only to be quickly dragged back inside again. Is she a recovering drug addict like the neighbours say? Or is she really in danger from those who claim to be caring for her? Chloe and Ed begin to run surveillance, but as they dig deeper, they find themselves caught up in a world of strange beliefs, old religions, and dark witchcraft. Their search for the truth will climax in a live webcast that will terrify and make those watching question the very authenticity of what they are seeing. Webcast is inspired by a wealth of films from both the horror and thriller genres, including Rear Window, The Wicker Man, The Blair Witch Project, Rosemary's Baby, Paranormal Activity, and Race with the Devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Innocent Curse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his girlfriend Naomi.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Day of a Thousand Screams (2012)
Plot Summary:
TV reporter Natasha McGrath is sent to a remote area. Along with her small crew and a couple of campers, they encounter a man who watches, taunts and kills them one by one: repeatedly.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, cult film
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Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains (2018)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling young film crew, shooting a low-budget horror movie in an abandoned orphanage, discovers that a family of sadistic killers has rewritten their script.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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End Trip (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a calm night in an average city a hardworking URYDE driver, Brandon, picks up just another fare, Judd. Using interactions that blur the lines between the technological world and the physical one, Judd explains a messy breakup. Brandon offers an empathetic ear and a sympathetic heart to his new friend to help him pick up the pieces. Aggregated profiles, algorithms, links, likes and comments bring people closer. But how close is too close?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence (2015)
Plot Summary:
My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence is an anthology horror film that features three tales that revolve around serial killer/druggie Alister (Dakota Bailey) & his equally demented serial killer friends Woody, Charlie and Bubba & takes the viewer deep into a seedy underworld of crime, drugs, depravity & murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology
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The Ladies of the House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, interesting
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Deep Evil (2019)
Plot Summary:
Wen and Han. As the duo search for clues to identify the headless victim, they find it all pointing to a top plastic surgeon Kao who seems to have a complex history with Han in the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Tomato Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a small quite city in Indiana Lora comes up missing. Someone starts stalking women in the city in an attempt to calm his desires for the local news anchor Ann Marie. What starts as stalking soon becomes kidnapping which leads to the news mentioning about the Tomato Man. Tomato Man now sets his sights on Ann Marie. The Detectives are in a race to stop this Tomato Man before he Kills again.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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A Dark Foe (2020)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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Heavy Makeup (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal murders occur in their Hollywood neighborhood, two women search for clues to uncover the identity of a serial killer who is targeting struggling young actresses.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror spoof, cult film
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K-Shop (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Creed (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Joker Game (2012)
Plot Summary:
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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Daughter of the Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspectors. The interaction with the Trainee Inspector helps Garcia to better understand his daughter Sara, a 16-year-old teenager who was married to the implacable journalist Jaime.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hole (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is the detective looking for answers. All 3 lives intertwine with horrific consequences when their fears come upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, spiritual, cult film
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Eye Without a Face (2021)
Plot Summary:
Agoraphobic young man Henry, living with a Youtuber and struggling actor Eric, hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, twisted
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Thrill Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three seemingly normal teenagers commit a heinous murder for the sheer excitement of the act & their master ploy slowly crumbles to pieces... Thrill Kill is a dark, suspenseful tale which explores the cynical relationship between three lost teenagers left drifting alone in a foreclosed corner of Small Town America feeding on booze, pop culture, drugs, violent video games & plotting the unthinkable... a gruesome murder for the thrill of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Dead of Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alone and isolated at the family ranch, Tommy and his sister June suddenly find themselves being terrorized and hunted by a pair of nomadic killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, 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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The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Kill That Bitch (2014)
Plot Summary:
A methodical killer is systematically slaughtering a group of women who are connected and bound by the same dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: twist ending, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, controversial, surprise ending
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Chop Chop (2020)
Plot Summary:
A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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The Deep Web: Murdershow (2023)
Plot Summary:
A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Chikatilo (2021)
Plot Summary:
The history of the hunt for the worst serial killer in the USSR.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic