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Plot Summary:
Suffering from double vision, a single mother (Cocco) tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist (Tsukamoto) overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, clever, psychedelic, slasher, cult classic, avant garde, weird
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The Suicide Manual (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
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Anguish (2015)
Plot Summary:
A new girl in a quiet town, Tess tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom. After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy, a hit and run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts to question her sanity again. When the spirit possesses Tess’s mind and soul, mother and daughter are at a loss for where to turn next for salvation: religion or medicine? Both institutions have failed them to date but faith leads them to the house of Sarah, Lucy’s mother, who has been despondent since the accident. All together with time working against them, Sarah is desperate to believe that Lucy is still alive in Tess but neither parent wants to give up on their daughter. Now that she understands what is happening to her, ultimately Tess must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb to her affliction.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
After an epic 40-minute one-take zombie-movie we get to watch behind-the-scenes of how it came to be: a comedy of errors with overly dedicated actresses, clumsy crew, arrogant directors and a lots of trials and tribulations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, mockumentary, tense, humorous, captivating, absurd, scary, psychological, funny, inspirational
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Trace (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends experimenting with EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) accidentally open a doorway allowing a powerful demon to enter our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Pretty Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, weird
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Tokyo Fist (1995)
Plot Summary:
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, cult classic, stylized, controversial, deep, atmospheric, serious, experimental, cynical
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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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Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Plot Summary:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, a group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to purge's lair. Among them is Eric's brother JUAN. Eric sets out to save his brother, and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive? Written by Armont Casalle.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, realistic
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Bastard (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, disturbing, perverse, bizarre
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A Snake of June (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, disturbing, black and white, psychological thriller, philosophical, suspense, slasher
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Beckoning the Butcher (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beckoning the Butcher explores the night Chris Shaw and his four friends summoned a spirit into their holiday house - then disappeared forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
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Magic (1978)
Plot Summary:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, classic horror, psychological thriller, emotional
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Blind Beast (1969)
Plot Summary:
A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give way to meat cleavers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, surreal, mind bending, controversial, clever, psychedelic, suspense, slasher
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Bullet Ballet (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white, neo noir, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, controversial, art house, deep, cult classic, psychological
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Pop Skull (2007)
Plot Summary:
Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This hallucinatory horror film leaps off the screen with its disturbingly vivid visuals.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating, retro, surreal, disturbing, controversial, scary
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Repulsion (1965)
Plot Summary:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, black and white, cerebral, atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspense, art house, psychological thriller
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Fires on the Plain (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, rough, bleak, serious, gloomy, cult film
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Hero (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kohei Kuryu returns to Tokyo, reunites with his former colleagues, and goes up against one of the most famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a new case and team up with his best partner, Maiko Amemiya.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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They Look Like People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing, mumblecore, mind bending, philosophical
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Possum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, suspense, psychological, phantasmagoric, psychological thriller, disturbing, post-horror, scary, tense, captivating
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Marebito (2004)
Plot Summary:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, mockumentary, suspense, clever
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
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In My Skin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, sexy, heartbreaking, bloody, suspense, sentimental
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The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic
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Shrill Cries of Summer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, enigmatic, tense, captivating, suspenseful, manga
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, psychedelic, slasher