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Plot Summary:
In the 1970s on the Binlusai islands, a young mother is killed when she was running with her son run from an evil presence in an abandoned Roman Catholic leper colony. In the present day, a group of four young men and women are travelling to the island to take part in a survival game run by TV channel Search Planet headed by Chen Jiadong (Philip Keung). Also on the boat is the television presenter Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam). The eight people have been split into four pairs where they are given a map which leads to a flag; their aim is to survive without any supplies, and the winning duo gets a grand prize of one-million dollars. As they approach the island, their ship is attacked by something unknown under the water and most of their luggage is lost. Shen Yilin (Mini Yang) has preserved her map which she gives to her partner Peng Fei (Jordan Chan).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
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Nightshift (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is stuck in the morgue - on her first day - working as an assistant to a pathologist when the dead begin to manifest signs of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Womb Ghosts (2010)
Plot Summary:
Life after death of a fetus inside a woman’s body exists as a Womb Ghost. Unnatural termination of such life will turn the baby into the evilest and most vicious kind of spirit. A mental hospital is haunted by spirits, the mysterious miscarriage of a young and beautiful inmate causes the authority to investigate. Only one answer can be given to the existence of such an ungodly creature…Womb Ghost.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Accidental Exorcist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fate has dealt Richard Vanuck a very strange hand; he's a natural born exorcist. In fact, he's the best there's ever been, and with possessions on the rise across the city he's booked solid. Eventually he comes to realize that performing exorcisms is the only thing he's truly good at, even though his daily battles with Satanic forces are wearing him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Coven (2020)
Plot Summary:
Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, disturbing, exciting
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Paranormal Island (2014)
Plot Summary:
When 3 college kids take a summer job its a chance of a lifetime to bartend at a bar in the middle of a lake! The bar has been around for over a hundred years and is presumed by many locals to be haunted, after the owner killed himself many years before. Unfortunately they miss the last boat off the island and are stuck trying to find a way off. As darkness falls, they quickly realize things are very different after hours as they are hunted by the paranormal caretaker.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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Antisocial 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Years after having her newborn child stolen from her, Sam searches a world infested with infected users from the Social Redroom website. After befriending a young girl named Bean, Sam is captured and locked in a facility dedicated to finding a cure for the Redroom Virus. Trapped and tortured, Sam tries to escape the facility before an impending update on the Redroom site hits 100% and unleashes its final phase of the attack.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Gnome Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a dying old woman gives Zoe a cursed amulet, all of her enemies begin dying tragic deaths at the hands of a GNOME. Now, she must try to stop it before he kills those she loves.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Tales from the Dark Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Some Be (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mexican feature film.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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Ghost Theater (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hong Kong Ghost Stories (2011)
Plot Summary:
Wong Jing's Classroom follows Ling, the new substitute teacher at a suburban high school. She feels something wrong about her class. The students in her Class 4E are an unruly bunch, except for Don Don, who always sits quietly in the corner. Suspecting that her students Gi Gi, Co Co, and Fong engage in prostitution, Ling reports the problems with her class to the dean, only to be told that there has never been a Class 4E in the school... In Patrick Kong's Travel, a group of friends go on vacation in Mainland, during which Bo gets killed in a road accident. At Bo's funeral, her travel mates meet Bo's estranged lover Ka Ming , with whom Bo had a heated quarrel on the phone just prior to her tragic death. At the hot-pot dinner after the funeral, a pale-faced Ka Ming reveals to the survivors the secret of his relationship with Bo before going on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Z (2014)
Plot Summary:
A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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3 Hours till Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
An AWOL soldier with PTSD goes into hiding along with his brother and a few friends. They retreat into a rural farm area unaware that the outside world has ceased to function. On their way back to civilization, his brother is attacked by an infected farmer. He quickly morphs into a rabid animal and lives for exactly three hours. Realizing they are in grave danger, they head back to the forest trying to outlive the legions of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Year After Infection (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four stories, represented by each season, with diverse groups of people and the challenges they face after a zombie apocalypse. Trying to create a new life under the most dire of circumstances and dealing with letting go of their former lives, while coping with the constant danger of the infected. Will they survive? Will they want to?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Atomic Zombies!!! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two weeks after a local nuclear power plant explosion (which totally wasn't an evil secret Nazi research laboratory), zombies have taken over the town!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Trees Have Eyes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of bounty hunters head into a vast New England forest to track down a dangerous felon. But as they get further into the woods, they begin to realize there is something far deadlier than a murderer on the run. The group suddenly find themselves surrounded by a seemingly endless horde of the undead, and with no shelter, no help and no end to the carnage, survival seems hopeless.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, independent film
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Thr33 Days Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, Jeff, and Justin go to the lake to fish, and their day is ruined when zombies overtake the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Talon Falls (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers on a road trip decide to take a detour and find them selves at at haunted house halloween scream park deep in the woods of southern Kentucky. After witnessing an assortment of torture and gore. they start wondering if what they are experiencing is not a little too realistic. Before they know it each one of hem is captured and made part of the horrific attraction they originally thought was all fun and games.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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Plot Summary:
The deadly adventures of Bunnyman continue in the third and final film in the Bunnyman franchise.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, bloody
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Terror Nation (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a criminal gang botch a heist they find themselves drawn into a terrifying government conspiracy to cull the population.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blackburn Asylum (2015)
Plot Summary:
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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6 Models in Hell (2012)
Plot Summary:
6 models arrive at a warehouse to audition for a fashion show being hosted by the biggest talent agency in the city. Little do they know, the MC hosting the audition knows their innermost demons and intends to judge them for past sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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There's No Such Thing as Vampires (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers encounter vampires in a remote outpost.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Haunted Road 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Young couple enter a wrong hotel when they travel to Malaysia and horrible things occur.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Horror
Country: China, Thailand, Malaysia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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All Hallows' Eve Horror (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's that creepy time of year again...Halloween. And a group of friends have gotten together for a party at an old abandoned and haunted house where an entire family was once murdered. Seems totally safe right? Wrong. Dead wrong. Because not only do the kids decide to play some tricks and have a few treats, they manage to revive a supernatural killer; a killer hell bent on sacrificing them one by one to evil forces possessing the home. Will anyone escape? Or will they all be slain and become permanent residents of the infamous Amityville house? With original music by Nightmare queen Tuesday Knight, this is a night that none of them will ever forget ,for as long as they live.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Last American Horror Show (2018)
Plot Summary:
A trifecta of 80s throwback terror with mauling monsters, home invasions gone haywire and stomach-turning human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse
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Bigfoot Horror Camp (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Bigfoot terrorizes a nudist colony, not a horror camp. Mostly made up of footage from MONSTER OF THE NUDIST COLONY.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Werewolf Game: Prison Break (2016)
Plot Summary:
Akari Inui and other students are kidnapped and imprisoned. They are forced to take part in a game to kill and survive. The last survivor will receive one hundred million yen.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic