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Plot Summary:
Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gore and the atmospheric Hammer films. Chiyo, an old woman and her granddaughter, Yuki, are the sole survivors of a horrendous crime which wipes out an entire family. They find solace under the roof of far-removed relatives. The family's son, confined to a wheelchair, has a terrible premonition when the two women arrive, which will be verified in the most horrifying way. Because, when the house is empty, the boy is made to suffer sadistic games at the women mercy, which become more and more violent making his life a living hell... Written by Leo Urbina.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, scary, serious, realistic
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Ghost of Mae Nak (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mak and Nak are a young couple who have just moved into their first home as a married couple. But the house they own has a history much older than them and spirits who won't rest until they get what they want. And this time, love won't conquer all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher, asian horror
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The Devil's Chair (2007)
Plot Summary:
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, rough, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, splatter, grindhouse, surprise ending
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Tomie: Replay (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her name is Tomie, and she is in the process of regenerating herself. Though you may try, Tomie cannot be killed. She will return to seduce and to kill. Infected with Tomie's blood, the surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, tense
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Unspeakable (2000)
Plot Summary:
Impotent and unhappy middle-aged James Fhelleps goes murderously around the bend after an automobile accident claims the life of his beloved daughter Heather and turns his nagging wife Alice into a pathetic grotesquely disfigured cripple. James embarks on a savage killing spree, brutally butchering such low-life scum as hookers and drug dealers so he can reach Heather from the other side.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, controversial, realistic, sexual, slasher horror, sexy
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Family Demons (2009)
Plot Summary:
When an abused teenage girl murders her alcoholic mother, the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, scary
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Seed (2006)
Plot Summary:
After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, serious, suspense, twisted, psychological, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Cradle of Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A gruesome homage to the cult Amicus anthology Asylum, Cradle of Fear unfolds four screamplays all linked by the unspeakable need of an incarcerated child killer to wreak vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. Helped by deranged angel Dani Filth, who leaves a trail of charnel house death in his crimson wake, the cannibal convict forces two Goth vamps to endure a one night stand from hell, two tough female robbers to see through each other, an obscenely rich coke-head to chop up more than a few lines and an internet surfer to descend into madness when he uncovers the ultimate web depravity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, gothic, scary, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, splatter, slasher, controversial
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The Undertow (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, terrifying secrets of the town surface. A seven-foot-tall deformed maniac, known by the townsfolk as The Boy is kept under lock and key by the town's mayor. The Boy's purpose is simple: kill outsiders. The Mayor of Old Mines releases The Boy and the maniac's hunt begins. One by one, the campers on their float trip are ripped to gory shreds by the enraged, deformed, hulking Boy. But there is great mystery to the Boy. Who is his father? Who is his mother? How did he become so dangerous? In the end, the answers to these questions will put the entire town of Old Mines in danger. The Boy is an unstoppable killing machine, and anyone in his path won't be in one piece for long!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, independent film, atmospheric, serious, splatter
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The Ghouls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eric Hayes is a stringer. One notch below the lowest rung of the journalistic ladder. A video vulture preying on police chases, ambulance runs, and random street violence, selling his footage to the highest bidder and living on a steady diet of cigarettes and bloodlust. For years, Eric has lived off of other people's pain and misery. But he's about to discover something beneath the streets of Los Angeles even hungrier for blood than he is. He's about to discover THE GHOULS.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, crying, cult film
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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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Tomie vs Tomie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Partially based on "The Gathering" in the Tomie manga. A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attention of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, perhaps a genetic one-off, in that he feels no particular attraction to Tomie. This of course intrigues Tomie, and she begins to become obsessed with him. Soon, he is caught in a vicious struggle between two rival Tomies. And neither Tomie will die.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, corny
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground. Soon Hideo winds up a bloody mess in the bathroom stall, and his two compatriots are assaulted with a series of bizarre events in which Tomie possesses other girls' bodies, winds up a yammering severed head with claw-like arms, and taunts them no matter how often they kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, surprise ending
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Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Plot Summary:
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, crying
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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The Orphan Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister Audrey what it means to have family loyalty. His lessons are taught in massive doses of vulgar and unimaginable pain. Throughout her brutal torture we learn that Marcus is not the only Miller with Killer in the bloodline as Audrey proves to be a formidable adversary.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, independent film
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Don't Go in the House (1979)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, retro, bloody, gothic horror
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Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, bleak
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Slaughtered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, scary, realistic
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100 Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, bloody, suspense
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Offspring (2009)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire's despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, rough, psychological, suspense, underground film, grindhouse, atmospheric, bleak
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Halloween II (2009)
Plot Summary:
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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Carver (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, brutal, serious, suspense, psychological horror, perverse, suspense thriller
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Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Plot Summary:
Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, bloody, disturbing, surreal, controversial, psychological horror
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Live Feed (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults are about to find themselves in a fight for their lives, pitted against evil itself! While on vacation in a foreign city, one of the five makes a seemingly innocent albeit ignorant mistake and soon all of them will realize the cost of such an inconsequential action. A stranger appears to help them, but is this too little, too late?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, avant garde, suspense, erotic
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Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006)
Plot Summary:
The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, satanic, psychological, rough, bleak, brutal, bloody, independent film, suspense
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Red Room (1999)
Plot Summary:
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychological, splatter, extreme horror, heavy, terrifying, scary, rough, bleak
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Hostel: Part III (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, brutal, sexy
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
Plot Summary:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, demonic, splatter, stylized, rough, psychological, slasher
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, bleak, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense