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Plot Summary:
In the summer of 2012, four Malibu teenagers disappeared without a trace. This documentary narrative takes a look inside one of the most bizarre and disturbing unsolved missing persons cases in Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, teen horror
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The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their private tour is interrupted, the group sneaks back in at night, unaware of the otherworldly terror that awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Bloody Crayons (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends goes to an island for a short film project when they are attacked by a mysterious killer after playing a game of bloody crayons.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic
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Masked Mutilator (2019)
Plot Summary:
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, splatter
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The Devil Within (2016)
Plot Summary:
In November 2012 Rachel Kusza and her team of film makers travelled to Transylvania to document the Baciu forest. A forest with a dark history of strange occurrences, ghost sightings and countless cases of missing people. The film crew were never heard from again. After searching for the film crew for two years Howard Redman, Rachels teacher, found the crews camera buried in the snow.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Another Kind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of unprepared weekend hikers go missing while snowshoeing in the Catskill Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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But Deliver Us from Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A demon (Succubus) wreaks havoc on a U.S city. Lilith, Adams first wife according to Jewish mysticism seeks revenge against all of God's creation. God expelled Lilith from the Garden of Eden because of her refusal to obey Adam, the man. Scorned she returns present day with a vengeance against man and his offspring.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: crying, detective
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The Witch Files (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Friends head off to the remote island of Martha's Vineyard to celebrate New Year's Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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College Pranks (2018)
Plot Summary:
College students are invited to play a game sponsored by a website. When students start the game in the mountains of Colorado, they discover that the stakes they are playing for are not just a cash prize.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Thrill Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three seemingly normal teenagers commit a heinous murder for the sheer excitement of the act & their master ploy slowly crumbles to pieces... Thrill Kill is a dark, suspenseful tale which explores the cynical relationship between three lost teenagers left drifting alone in a foreclosed corner of Small Town America feeding on booze, pop culture, drugs, violent video games & plotting the unthinkable... a gruesome murder for the thrill of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Capps Crossing (2017)
Plot Summary:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Bloody Slumber Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
After Kelly broke up with Rick, her abusive boyfriend, her friends had a slumber party to cheer her up. As they are telling horror stories, there is a killer in the house coming for them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. Sam Loomis once treated unstoppable killer Michael Myers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Captured (2017)
Plot Summary:
A weekend getaway to shoot a music video turns into a nightmare for a rock'n roll band when they become the crazed obsession of an escaped convict that is purposely targeting the female lead of the band.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Prom Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the school year for a group of high school friends. Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, he is determined to have them Dead On Arrival. The teens are tortured while being held hostage, and soon turn on each other for survival. By the end, we learn that one of the teens had been keeping a secret that played a bigger role in their demise.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
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Claws (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Claws!' is about a grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters one year. From then on, the bear goes on a killing spree in the woods, trying to take revenge on humans as a whole for its brush with the hunters. Jason and Chris Monroe, estranged husband and wife, go in search of the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Happy Camp (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to the childhood town where his brother was abducted 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, mockumentary, scary, independent film, fake documentary
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Delirium (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense
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Varsity Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jocks and cheerleaders head out to a remote farmhouse for a raucous Halloween party, but someone dressed as their school mascot intends to slaughter them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, rough, captivating, suspense, bloody, scary, humorous
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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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After Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring break for seven college students is derailed with one wrong turn. A flat tire on a deserted road leaves them stranded after dark in the company of a menacing drifter who may or may not be trying to help.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Entity Project (2019)
Plot Summary:
A director and her friends renting a haunted house to capture paranormal events in order to prove it and become popular.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film
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Death Trip (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four friends take a cottage vacation in the dead of winter, seeking refuge from their busy urban lives, if only for one weekend. However, the few residents who remain in the secluded cottage town of Rideau Ferry don’t seem to take kindly to strangers… From the moment they reach their destination, the visitors, a group of twenty-something artist types, are confronted by the ominous gaze of neighbouring cottagers, all of whom have no choice but to tough out the cold winter in this small, rural town. Over the course of their stay, the friends begin to uncover dark details about the inhabitants of the houses around them. After one of the friends is found mutilated on the front porch of a nearby cottage, the friends quickly discover that nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
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