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Plot Summary:
Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. He and his girlfriend Penny (Sarah Jones) move into a desolate house hoping to make a breakthrough. Then they discover their neighbor, the elusive Mr. Jones. Famous for his haunting sculptures, Mr. Jones has remained a mystery to the world. Scott and Penny, convinced that they have found the perfect film subject, sneak into his workshop and realize that their curiosity may have chilling consequences. Who is Mr. Jones?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, surreal, mockumentary, grindhouse, psychological horror, creepy, lovecraft, spooky
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The Final Patient (2005)
Plot Summary:
When retired physician Daniel Green (Bill Cobbs, Night at the Museum) lifts a 5-ton farm tractor off a boy trapped beneath, the enigma of his supernatural strength piques the curiosity of two med students passing through town. Visiting the old doctor at his isolated farmhouse, they soon learn his bizarre secret: he has uncovered the key to eternal youth. But sometimes the lust for immortality has deadly consequences. The night takes a twisted turn as the young men discover Dr. Green's "miracle" has come with a horrifying price - and a fate far worse than growing old.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, depressing, tense, psychotronic
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Blood River (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger who seems to know decidedly more than he is sharing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, spaghetti western, creepy, twisted, scary
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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Animus (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by a blood thirsty maniac.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Sam's Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions and memories of the past deep within an isolated forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, independent film
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Darkest Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
A family gathers for a happy reunion and marriage announcement on Christmas Day at an isolated mansion in the Philippine mountains only to encounter a series of bizarre, demonic, and tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, christmas horror, psychological, serious, dark, mockumentary
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The Crying Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2008 a cast and crew set out to shoot a pilot for a paranormal reality show. During the first night vague apparitions became violent hauntings. One by one they lost their lives. The Whispering Dead is a diary of the final tortured moments of real people in an unthinkable situation.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, psychotronic, fake documentary
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It's in the Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
One year after a tragic incident tore their family apart, a grieving son and his estranged father embark on a journey into the wild to reconcile their past. When a horrifying accident leaves Russell badly injured, and strands them in the wild, it is up to October to save them both. However, this wilderness is not what it seems, and as they deteriorate, so to does their concept of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, lovecraft, mindfuck, scary, serious
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Entity (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eugene, a man dealing with the tragedy of his family's death by living at the vacation cabin that they last stayed, discovers he's completely snowbound. During Eugene's desperate attempts to dig himself out, he discovers he's not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, twisted, psychotronic
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Feng shui (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the most unfortunate day of her life, Joy picks up a package left by a stranger in a bus. It is called ‘ba-gua’, (feng shui mirror) an item that drives bad luck away. Joy could not refuse the luck that continues to come her way until everything appears too good to be true. Unexplained events disturb her family’s peace . People start to die as well. Having been advised by the geomancer to simply say no to the next form of luck, all Joy could do now is wait. But what painful decision awaits her? Will Joy prevail or be consumed by the curse of the bagua mirror?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky, terrifying, realistic
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Arbor Demon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists they go for a romantic camping trip in a remote wood to reconnect and share some quality time. But their idyll is shockingly cut short after a group of nearby hunters are brutally killed by a mysterious creature. Trapped inside their tent, the couple is forced to help one of the injured hunters and together they plan their escape. Is there really something supernatural hidden in the forest? Or is it just their imaginations running riot. Soon they must determine if the real threat is inside or outside their enclosure.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, fairy tale, spooky
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Long Weekend (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mother Nature gets revenge on some careless campers in this remastered version of the Australian horror classic.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, depressing, mystic, romantic drama, weird
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Deadline (2009)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, satanic, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological horror
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The Presence (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surreal, spooky, independent film
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Greystone Park (2012)
Plot Summary:
In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers quickly discovered that they were not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary, grindhouse, 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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Hollow (2011)
Plot Summary:
An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, mockumentary, spooky, psychological, serious
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YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological horror, lovecraft, slasher, surreal, demonic, grindhouse
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Delivery: The Beast Within (2013)
Plot Summary:
Delivery tells the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading Rachel to believe that a malevolent spirit has possessed their unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, demonic, mockumentary, mystic, realistic
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Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
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Wake Wood (2009)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, captivating, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, suspense, surreal, apocalyptic, grindhouse
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Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, queer horror, erotic, scary, mind bending
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Under the Bed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mystical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Jug Face (2013)
Plot Summary:
The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, disturbing, psychological thriller, slasher, southern gothic, grindhouse, dark comedy
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Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
He’s one of the hardest working filmmakers in the genre business.......So what’s HATCHET man Adam Green been up to this past year apart from working on his sit-com ‘Holliston’, writing KILLER PIZZA and prepping EXORCISM ON CROOKED LAKE? The answer is this documentary starting out exploring genre-based monster art and then taking an odd turn into the blurring of fantasy and reality. Because halfway through producing this treatise with cinematographer Will Barratt at his L.A. ArieScope Pictures offices, they are contacted by former policeman William Dekker who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. That they live in world just below our own named The Marrow and he knows where one of the entrances to this dark hidden universe is. Green of course is intrigued and so the monster hunting expedition begins… to become something else far more frightening than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, scary
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Dead Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Entity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, grindhouse, spooky
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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
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Exists (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, grindhouse, teen horror, mythical, powerful, natural horror
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Resolution (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mumblecore, disturbing, lovecraft, mindfuck, psychological