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Plot Summary:
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, disturbing, serious, slasher, scary, psychological, stylized, mockumentary
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Paranoid (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are invited to attend a party at the house of a former rock-star named Stan and his weird family who live in the countryside. Chloe awakes the next morning only to find her boyfriend has abandoned her at Stan's house and she has been drugged and handcuffed to the bed.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, gloomy, psychotronic, independent film
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Sanctimony (2000)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, brilliant stock trader, bored with his existence, becomes a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense, erotic, independent film, slasher horror
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The Cohasset Snuff Film (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, the small town of Cohasset, Massachusetts was rocked with tragedy. A 17-year-old high school senior named Collin Mason murdered three classmates. All the murders were videotaped and uploaded to the Internet via bit torrent sites and for three days, the world viewed the murders of these three innocent teens. Through legal action, the parents of the victims were able to remove all footage from the Internet and the town tried to save face by pretending it never happened. Bootleg copies of this footage are still passed around and downloaded through illegal means. The impact of this video is still being felt in Cohasset today. The video has become infamous, and is now referred to as The Cohasset Snuff Film.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary, serious
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The Dead of Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alone and isolated at the family ranch, Tommy and his sister June suddenly find themselves being terrorized and hunted by a pair of nomadic killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Scar (2007)
Plot Summary:
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, realistic, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, bloody, suspense, independent film
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Flashback (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, realistic, teen horror
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Chop Chop (2020)
Plot Summary:
A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Curdled (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, black comedy, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film
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Frenzy (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, detective, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, black comedy, psychological, neo noir, psychosexual thriller
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Anatomy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, and uncovers a gruesome conspiracy perpetrated by an Antihippocratic secret society operating within the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, stylized, rough, medical horror, suspense, creepy
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Pathology (2008)
Plot Summary:
Medical student Ted Grey graduates at the top of his class and quickly joins an elite pathology program, whose top students invite him into their circle. There he uncovers a gruesome secret: They play a game in which one tries to commit the perfect, undetectable murder, then the others compete to determine the victim's cause of death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, suspense, sexy, surprise ending, tense, rough, medical horror, realistic
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Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Romanian filmmaker obsessed with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway goes to shocking extremes to convince Anne to star in his upcoming film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, slasher, meta, mockumentary, suspense, psychological, psychological horror, disturbing, dark comedy, psychological thriller
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Hangman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Returning from vacation, the Miller family find their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, independent film, teen horror, surprise ending, rough
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Dead Calm (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, suspense, sexy, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, rough
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Relative Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective, mystical, terrifying, independent film, mind bending
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Thesis (1996)
Plot Summary:
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, suspense, intense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, cerebral, creepy
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Sara (1997)
Plot Summary:
Forty-something Leon is an alcoholic, ex-special forces barely scraping by when he's hired by a mobster to protect his 16 year old daughter. Not only does Leon have to clean up his act, but also handle the romantic advances of his ward and the keen attention of his dangerous employers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, sincere, serious, realistic
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The Nature of the Beast (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, road movie, independent film
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Plot Summary:
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective, intellectual, bloody, saga, splatter, slasher horror
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Psychosis (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, realistic, psychotronic
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Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
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P2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, creepy, brutal, bloody, psychological thriller
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The Collection (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the hospital by mercenaries hired by Elena's wealthy father. Arkin is blackmailed to team up with the mercenaries and track down The Collector's booby trapped warehouse and save Elena.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing, intense, suspense, splatter, clever
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The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, rough, brutal, suspense, dark comedy, mockumentary
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Vacancy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, creepy, tense
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The Collector (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, sadistic, splatter, bloody
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You're Next (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, rough, disturbing, intense, dark comedy
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Mindhunters (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, slasher, detective, clever, intense