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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
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Plot Summary:
After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Not Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin on the East Coast. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspense, dark, disturbing, stylized, controversial, dark fantasy
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The Last House on Cemetery Lane (2015)
Plot Summary:
Screenwriter John Davies has grown tired of living in London and moves to an old manor house in a sleepy West Wales village to get out of the rat race. At first he enjoys himself, embracing the quieter pace of life and starting a relationship with his beautiful neighbour Cassie Konrad. But strange, unexplained occurrences begin to occur in the manor house. John discovers he is surrounded by a supernatural presence and begins to research the house's past, discovering secrets more terrible than he ever imagined. It is now up to John to right the injustices of the past and finally lay to rest the spirits which haunt the Last House on Cemetery Lane.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary
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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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Cursed (2004)
Plot Summary:
Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher
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The Shock Labyrinth (2009)
Plot Summary:
The horror-thriller follows a group of teenagers dealing with the disappearance of one of them, Yuki, at an amusement park s ghost house. On a rainy day 10 years later, Yuki inexplicably returns. However, no sooner is she united with her former friends than she collapses, and the group rushes Yuki to a nearby hospital. But after checking in, they discover that things are not quite as they seem at the medical center. As the night wears on, the group sinks deeper and deeper into the events from a decade ago that led to Yuki's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, post modern
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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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Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki household who tells her about what happened to her sister. Mai will now uncover the dark secrets of Ju-on and will try to end the curse once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, enigmatic
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, spooky, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, asian horror
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The Child's Eye (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of breaking up, Ling (Elanne Kwong) and her brother Rex (Rex Ho), and Ciwi (Ciwi Lam) and her boyfriend Hei (Izz Xu). Their driver takes them to the old Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen (Lam Ka-tung), where strange things start happening as soon as they arrive: Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling a disembodied hand. At dinner that night, the three men mysteriously disappear. Under Rainie's leadership, the three girls - helped by the young Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang - set out to try and find them in the hotel's underground passages, in between being haunted by the female ghost and a strange monster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense, saga, scary, atmospheric
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The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Complex (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. ¶ Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, enigmatic, mind bending
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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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The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Fear House (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests Samantha's pledge, the remaining guests sink into horror. If they want to leave Fear House alive, this desperate group must act fast in writer-director Michael R. Morris's claustrophobic spook fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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1st Summoning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four student filmmakers set out to explore an abandoned building famous for its connection with the occult, but as their journey becomes littered with strange behavior and unexplained phenomena, it becomes clear the horror they are attempting to document may already be lurking among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, enigmatic
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Something Sinister (2014)
Plot Summary:
Amelia's claustrophobic life with Aunt Helen is disrupted when her past tries to push through to her present.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic
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666: The Devil's Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vanessa, a documentary filmmaker, and she is making a film about folklore. Her best friend Brad was meant to help her, but he instead decides to go on a date with new love Jessica, who he met online. His new girlfriend persuades Vanessa to join him by telling her the house is haunted and would be a good subject for her film, but it turns out she has been lured into a trap and she is a creature from Hell. Quite how she will be impregnated by a female demon will be revealed in the movie.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, dark
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The Blackwell Ghost 4 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Turner returns to the light foot house to continue his investigation. This time he researched into the first victim Susan. He finds out from the detective there was a note left when light foot committed suicide. It ended up being a map to the first victim (Susan) body. The map is encrypted and turner has to find a way to decode it. While crazy things happen at the light foot house.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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Beyond Remedy (2009)
Plot Summary:
An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Plot Summary:
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in apartment 1303. She finds a book telling the tragic story of the Yukiyo and her mother, the first tenants of the apartment and uncovers the truth behind the suicides.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, detective
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The Open Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
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An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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In the Trap (2019)
Plot Summary:
Philip, a solitary proof reader, is trapped in his apartment, too afraid to leave and tortured by an unknown evil force that has kept him prisoner for the last two years.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, cult horror, spooky
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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, splatter
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic