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Plot Summary:
A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, twist ending, cerebral, spooky, psychotronic
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The Fear of Darkness (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
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Clinical (2017)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, psychological, scary, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twist ending
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Cold Sweat (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. An unconditional friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside await two brutal murderers, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives that were lost since the last military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, rough
Similar in 79%
American Gothic (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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*69 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, uncovers that these events are somehow linked to her past. Now, she must find a way to unlock the truth that is buried deep within in order to put an end to the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Human Resources (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a woman takes a new job, she discovers the skyscraper she works in is haunted by victims of a corporation's pursuit of profit. Unable to ignore injustice embodied by the disembodied, she sets out to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sad, political thriller, independent film
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I Am ZoZo (2012)
Plot Summary:
I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that attaches itself to people exclusively through Ouija boards. I Am ZoZo was shot on location on San Juan Island, WA and Seattle entirely on Kodak Super 8mm negative film stock.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mind bending, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Sella Turcica (2010)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, perverse, independent film, cult film
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Camera Obscura (2017)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mumblecore, psychological horror
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The Monitor (2011)
Plot Summary:
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, social, grindhouse, cult horror
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The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A brutal serial killer is finally gunned down in the middle of carrying out one last heinous act of bloody murder. In the maniac’s possession, a box of Guatemalan talismans, which mistakenly end up being sold as charm jewelry in Chloe’s Collectables thrift shop. Soon those who bought the Worry Dolls begin to act strangely out of character and cause another rash of senseless slaughter. An ancient curse is consuming the city and pits a hardened detective against the clock to save his 8 year-old daughter’s life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychotronic, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, spooky
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Grindstone Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly purchased farmhouse, strange occurrences begin to happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, serious, realistic
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Day 13 (2020)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Colton is left at home to babysit his little sister for the summer, he develops a crush on Heather, the beautiful girl who just moved into a mysterious old house across the street. He falls in love with her from afar — but also witnesses her foster father grow increasingly threatening towards her. When Colton suspects the man belongs to a Satanic cult, and is preparing to ritually murder her, he resorts to desperate measures to intervene, and learns that the truth of the situation is more horrifying than anything he had ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Harvesting (2019)
Plot Summary:
To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Unspoken (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1997 the close-knit Anderson family vanished from their home without a trace. No bodies were ever found and no explanation satisfied curiosity. For 17 years the house has remained undisturbed...until now. This eerily expert frightener is further enlivened by terrific performances from ‘Suits’/’Arrow’ star Neal McDonough and SILENT HILL/THE TALL MAN/TIDELAND’s Jodelle Ferland.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, dark, queer horror, psychotronic
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The Blazing World (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Darker than Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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Tabula Rasa (2017)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, disturbing, detective, twisted, tense, surprise ending, captivating, suspenseful, epic, suspense
Similar in 89%
Tag (2015)
Plot Summary:
Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, surreal, tense, captivating, splatter, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, bloody
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Deadly Still (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, surprise ending, rough
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The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
Plot Summary:
Massena, New York, 1998. A decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a woman who kidnapped five young girls and pretended they were her own. Only one girl, Christina Bowden, managed to get away with her life, the other four found buried behind Caulfield's decrepit home... 20 years later, Caulfield has escaped from prison and launches a deadly pursuit to finish what she began. Christina's seemingly perfect life comes crashing down around her as the secrets of her past come back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, mindfuck
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Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
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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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The Kindred (2021)
Plot Summary:
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Choke (2020)
Plot Summary:
The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer's affairs with a mysterious girl overlap.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Tempus Tormentum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, suspense, psychotronic, psycho film
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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense