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Plot Summary:
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher horror
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Terror House (1972)
Plot Summary:
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she'll be, the lodge owners arrange her transport and she soon finds herself with two other young women as guests of a kindly old couple. The place is beautiful and the food is fantastic, but something just doesn't seem right. One of the guests has suddenly vanished, and the hosts are certainly reluctant to have anyone poking around the meat locker. Still, the barbecued ribs are delicious, so what's there to complain about?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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What Lies Ahead (2019)
Plot Summary:
When two young women embark on a road trip from Georgia to New York, an unseen peril emerges that grows stronger with each passing mile.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Despiser (2003)
Plot Summary:
Having just been fired and dumped by his wife, life couldn't possibly be worse for independent artist GORDON HAUGE (Mark Redfield)--until he wrecks his car and finds himself in purgatory that is. Once there, he is attacked by fanatic Shadowmen and legions of Ragmen--souls being enslaved and bent to some dark purpose. Gordon is rescued by an eccentric band of freedom fighters, people from different times of history who lost their lives in noble sacrifice. They recruit the reluctant and befuddled Gordon and set off on a wild adventure through the surreal landscapes of purgatory to battle the Despiser--an evil being who now reigns in this seemingly God-abandoned halfway house north of hell and south of heaven. Dealing with shifting reality, annoying monsters, armies of Ragmen and hair-raising car chases across bridges spanning oceans of lava our heroes battle their way to the dark macabre fortress of the Despiser. Written by Philip Cook [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, 3d animation
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The Chosen One (2009)
Plot Summary:
Witness the psychedelic horror of "THE CHOSEN ONE", a gorgeously shot B+W film featuring music by legendary doom metal band ELECTRIC WIZARD and beautiful classical score by Anthony DiLorenzo! The twisted story follows the tragic end of dreams for a happily married couple and their unfortunate plunge into a fiendish nightmare! A fun and entertaining ride through the annals of art horror, internal medicine, science, superstition, religious fever and politics that you will never forget!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, slasher, independent film
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Wicked Games (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective Gary discovers that his wife is having an affair. Despondent, he drinks and discusses his problem with friend Dan, a police detective. When someone in a copper mask begins slaughtering people connected to Gary's life, Dan begins suspecting Gary, whose cousin Mike had a similar slip of the gears. Dan discusses the case with eminent psychiatrist Dr. Siedow, who has a few sexually slipped gears of his own. Together they try to stop the fiend before more people are killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Dark Silence (2016)
Plot Summary:
Craig moves with his daughter, Jennifer, into a new home after the death of his wife. It’s not long before the pair discover the house is haunted by a dark presence that wants to take over the child. One day Jennifer disappears and Craig must face a terrible truth in order to find his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Face of the Devil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Final Curtain (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of actors are rehearsing a supposedly cursed play- When the body count rises the actors must ask themselves, is the curse real or is there a murderer among them?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Darkest Hour (2005)
Plot Summary:
Several years ago, a sleepy Pacific Northwest town was terrorized by a skull-faced maniac with a thirst for blood. It seemed no man, woman or child was safe from the North Bend Reaper, a crafty serial killer who became infamous for stealing patches of clothing from his bloodied victims. Despite a massive manhunt, the Reaper was never found. Fast forward to the present - a group of actors try to cash in on the town's notoriety by hosting an interactive murder mystery party based on the unsolved killings. After isolating their guests at an abandoned summer camp, they come to the terrifying conclusion that someone in their midst is killing them off one by one. Has someone chosen to continue the North Bend Reaper's bloody legacy? Or has the Reaper himself come back for one last dance with death?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, slasher horror
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Drawing Blood (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bodies begin to pile up the moment George Adam's wife leaves town for the weekend. George's past comes back to him, but its nothing like his current life in a safe, calm suburban home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film
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Huntress: Spirit of the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
Tara returns to her ancestral estate only to have her clothes explode off her body and a white light enter her chest. Afterwards she’s tormented by strange desires and dreams of running through the woods. Her cave-dwelling boyfriend is no help to her. Meanwhile, false friends plot to steal her inheritance and a determined hunter seeks to slay the new werewolf in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, independent film
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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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Sheltered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Awkward, but friendly and handsome bartender Joey allows a group of vacationers to seek refuge in his house on the eve of a big storm. The vacationers soon discover that there's a crazed killer in their midst, but unfortunately are trapped inside the house by the fierce storm that's raging outside.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Maneater (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Death Moon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that's where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn't know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo clan. Every night he transforms into a werewolf and horribly slays young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Death of Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple on holiday on a remote South Pacific island awaken one morning with a hang over and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, splatter
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Twixt (2011)
Plot Summary:
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, captivating, dark, post-horror, touching, detective, meta, horror comedy
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Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
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Grotesque (1988)
Plot Summary:
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher, perverse, independent film, surprise ending, slasher horror
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Double Vision (2002)
Plot Summary:
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective, action thriller, twisted, scary, mind bending
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Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing
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Axeman at Cutter's Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nine vacationing twenty-somethings are hunted by an axe-wielding local legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, suspense
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A House on the Bayou (2021)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to reconnect and mend their relationship, a troubled couple and their preteen daughter seek an idyllic getaway to a remote mansion in rural Louisiana. But when unexpected visitors arrive, their facade of family unity starts to unravel, as terrifying secrets come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Reel Nightmare (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, independent film, dark comedy, esoteric, lovecraft
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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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The Seventh Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, contemplative
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New Nightmare (1994)
Plot Summary:
In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, splatter, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, meta
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Always Shine (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, mumblecore, disturbing, unusual plot structure, contemplative, stylized, twisted, weird
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
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Fantasy Island (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, tense, horror comedy, scary, slasher, splatter