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Plot Summary:
To fulfill the last wish of her deceased mother, grieving Holly seeks out love and finds it in Matthew; their relationship swiftly becomes very close and all-encompassing. After receiving the news of Matthew’s ailing mother, both arrive to provide care in her final days, only to be faced with a nightmarish reality spiraling out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, rough, suspenseful, independent film, creepy
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Persecution (1974)
Plot Summary:
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Yulenka (2009)
Plot Summary:
A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide a secret. As it turns out, these girls don't play with dolls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
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Beast (2017)
Plot Summary:
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, twist ending, dark, dramatic, disturbing
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The Unwanted (2014)
Plot Summary:
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, psychotronic, dark drama, southern gothic
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Delusion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of Frank's wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir, neorealism, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Home for the Holidays (1972)
Plot Summary:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, suspense, spooky, crime thriller, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Guests (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young Katya meets a merry company of visiting guys who have a specific entertainment - to organize parties in other people's empty houses. And Katya knows the right place: an old country house on the coast, the owner of which left for a long time. The secluded house, in which the spiritualist salon was at the beginning of the last century, seems to everyone an excellent option. Alarming, even the terrible abandonment of this place does not frighten anyone ... In the midst of the party, someone whom Katya never expected to see appears: the mysterious master of the house ... The man she loved. A man in the grip of otherworldly forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, splatter, enigmatic
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Jack Goes Home (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, surreal, disturbing, rough, bleak, captivating, suspense, natural horror, queer cinema, extraordinary
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Sleep Has Her House (2017)
Plot Summary:
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, slow cinema, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, surreal, art house
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Mad Cowgirl (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, rough, serious, retro, slasher, experimental, independent film, offbeat
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The Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, exciting, surprise ending, suspense
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Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, humorous, dark, disturbing, splatter, twisted
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The Long Walk (2019)
Plot Summary:
An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Laos
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Lake Alice (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last….
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, slasher, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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The House That Never Dies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Haunt (2013)
Plot Summary:
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that is family has unknowingly just purchased.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, serious
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Laddaland (2011)
Plot Summary:
A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, dark, disturbing, terrifying, scary, serious
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Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
Plot Summary:
The sequel picks up eight years since the opening night tragedy of HELL HOUSE LLC and still many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel - evidence that will shed light on the hotel's mysteries and many unsolved deaths and disappearances. She assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, brutal, bleak, spooky, dark, mockumentary, dark drama, fake documentary
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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Cruel Peter (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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The Wyvern Mystery (2000)
Plot Summary:
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, erotic, period piece, scary, tense
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The Hole in the Ground (2019)
Plot Summary:
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, atmospheric, scary, spooky, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending, clever
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Dark Waters (1993)
Plot Summary:
A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, gothic horror, dark, satanic, creepy
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The Other Lamb (2019)
Plot Summary:
A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as Shepherd. Selah, a daughter who is on the cusp of teenage-hood, is given the great honor of participating in the sacred ritual of the birthing of the lambs – upon which they depend for survival – where she has a shocking and otherworldly experience. She begins to have strange visions that make her question her own reality, and everything the Shepherd has taught her and her sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, art house, dark, erotic, scary
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The Purging Hour (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the hopes of a new life for his family, Bruce Diaz left the harsh city for the serene and majestic mountains of California. The Diaz family's first day in their new house would go down as one of the most violent 24 hours any family could ever imagine. With no serviceable evidence being retrieved and no witnesses to speak, the case was eventually dismissed. Several years later, the family's personal home movie footage was released by anonymous source. "Home Video" tells the family's story, through their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, anthology, psychotronic, allegory, post modern
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Gates of Darkness (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Lodge (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, tense, psychological, mumblecore, atmospheric
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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