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Plot Summary:
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after, members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Before returning to England for provisions, leader John White puts his son-in-law Ananais Dare in charge, and Dare realizes the island is haunted by Norse spirits. Enlisting the aid of a friendly Native American, Dare attempts to free the spirits from their earthly captivity before the entire colony is lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, exciting, tense, gloomy, independent film
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Ghost from the Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power and Cody's deepening obsession threaten the safety of his only remaining family: his younger brother, James (Max Hauser). Matt Osterman directs this ghostly sci-fi thriller that also stars Matthew Feeney.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, captivating, tense, suspenseful, independent film, weird
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The Incubus (2010)
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Things are starting to change when a group of mysterious teens move into the small town of Spoon River. All of a sudden, people in the neighborhood are starting to come down with an unexplained disease. In spite of this, one girl is intrigued by the spirits that embraces the newcomers. Will her curiosity be the death of her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, gothic, captivating, independent film, vintage
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Portals (2019)
Plot Summary:
A series of worldwide blackouts cause millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies to appear everywhere across the planet. Some people are drawn into them with horrifying consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mysterious, cerebral
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Closed for the Season (2010)
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Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film
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Find Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, independent film
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, fake documentary
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GhostWatcher (2002)
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Laura Kove is an agoraphobic young woman whose world turns upside down when she discovers that the apartment she's locked herself into is haunted. Turning to the internet for help, she enlists the aid of Elizabeth Dean, a scam artist who passes herself off as a ghost hunter. At first, Elizabeth doesn't buy Laura's story but she soon becomes a true believer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
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Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Plot Summary:
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, christmas horror, scary, exciting, serious, independent film
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House of Bones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, terrifying, surprise ending
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The Axiom (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Haunted Boat (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the young Kevin gets the boat of his dead uncle as a gift, he invites five friends of him to a trip to Catalina Island for the weekend. While in the journey, they drink booze, have sex and play games, with each one of them telling his or her greatest fear. Later Kevin drowns in the open sea, the engine stops, and they are haunted and murdered by their greatest innermost fear.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, scary, serious, mind twisting
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How to Save Us (2014)
Plot Summary:
Brian Everett's younger brother Sam goes missing on the island of Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine forcing Brian to traverse across enemy lines to save his brother from an army of ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, stylized, independent film
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Monster Ark (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
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The Dead Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Good Vampires battle Zombie Vampires while trying to hide their own identity and prevent the infection from spreading.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, independent film
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Unseen Evil (2001)
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A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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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
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
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The Ghostmaker (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
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Dark House (2014)
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A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Appearing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
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Zombex (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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The After (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
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The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
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Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Episode 50 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Psychic Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic