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Plot Summary:
A rural sheriff (Kevin Sorbo) faces a seemingly impossible battle when he is forced to defend his small town from a demon riding bolts of lightning and causing mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killer High (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sabrina's perfectly planned high school reunion goes south when a monster keeps killing all the guests.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing, horror comedy
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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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The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is opened by a dying woman, she enters into a deal with the demon within that would see her illness cured in return for helping it claim six innocent victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
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The Cursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this movie spinoff of "The Cursed", reporter Im Jin-Hee receives a mysterious call while on a live radio program - the strange voice warning her about a murder happening soon. After the call, people begin to be murdered left and right. The murderers are "jaechaui" - corpses that can walk and talk like just like humans. One thing separates them from humans, though: they are just puppets being manipulated by someone far scarier than themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Painted in Blood (2022)
Plot Summary:
Malik, an aspiring painter, takes a job as a security guard at an art museum to make extra cash. However things quickly become terrifying when the figure inside one of the paintings starts speaking to him and walking around at night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ghost Game (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ghost Game tells the story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They're brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge prison twenty years before. Thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed there during the Cambodian war in the 1970s. Now the museum is abandoned, an.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heebie Jeebies (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Makmum (2019)
Plot Summary:
While in the dormitory, the resident of the dormitory is terrorized by a supernatural creature. There is a kind of supernatural creature called "Makmum" (the follower) that follows them during prayer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Devil's Tail (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young nurse begins her shift at an old city hospital. After a strange apparition one of the oldest nurse tells her that a patient, Mr. Moore, entered the hospital a few years ago. His body was completely burned after a fire. Mr. Moore was operated urgently by the doctors. But no one wanted to assist him. The pain and drugs had driven him mad... One night one of the nurses went to his room but his bed was empty ... Nothing was heard from him anymore. A bell interrupts the story. The call comes from Mr. Moore´s room….
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Plot Summary:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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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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The Watcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and that someone -- or something -- is determined to drive them out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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General Cemetery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of his father. With the help of his friends from school, encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lost at War (2007)
Plot Summary:
This is a Twilight Zone type story that involves five soldiers out on a mission. And they soon find themselves stuck in a foxhole in an apparently deserted camp. Then strange things begin to happen. For one they are surrounded by strange creatures shrouded in black who do not fire on them or attempt to hurt them in any way but still they stay out there watching, almost as if waiting for something. And this, along with other things that happen, cause these men to question weather they are alive or dead. And that is where their struggle begins. Exploring the age old question of fate and if it is something that is written in stone or is it something we as people can affect. One by one, four of these five men give in to fate as it were and walk off into the woods never to be seen again, but Captain Jason Briggs will not give up for any reason and in the end it is up to him alone to fine out if he can truly change his own fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Unlit (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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The Accursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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El Regreso de La Llorona (2021)
Plot Summary:
La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach after they accidentally kill a young girl.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country:
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Korean Ghost Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
A series of 8 one-act dramas. It is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which aired first on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. This marks the return of the series after nine years.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Reaptown (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this supernatural horror film, Carrie Baldwin is freed from prison under the conditions of a work-release program in Reaptown, Nevada. As she struggles to find her missing sister while working the night shift as a security guard for the Reaptown Railway Museum, Carrie soon finds herself in the presence of evil. Could the Railway hold the clues to her sister's mysterious disappearance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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Terra Formars (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, psychological, manga
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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Death Valley (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse
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Ghosthunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of their own loses his wife and daughter at the hands of a serial killer, a team of ghost hunters is determined to capture the spirits of the loved ones so their spirits can finally rest in peace. But as the team goes deeper into the house, the ghosts become more hostile, and the group discovers the true secrets of the house and its murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, serious, psychological, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a cult of old witch ladies, he embarks on a mission to exorcise the body of Julie from the evil soul of La Llorona.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, tense, mockumentary, weird
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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Morlocks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, psychotronic