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Plot Summary:
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak (Winai Kraibutr) is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Romance, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period piece, scary, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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Buppah Rahtree 3.1: Rahtree Reborn (2009)
Plot Summary:
Surrounded by tranquility of the apartment, a horrible spirit in the room 609 is lurking, and going to be awaken. This time the terrors are triplex. It is time for Oscar apartment to renovate after the death of the former owner. Now, it's J'Sam who takes over the whole business and stealthily turns the third floor into an illegal casino. Meanwhile, Rang, a handsome guy who has a job as horror cartoonist moves in for a personal reason. As Rang has a supernatural ability to see ghost, he finally meets Buppha, a mysterious girl who lives in the room 609. Soon, He falls in love with her. When love is blind, Rang isn't aware that his crush indeed is the haunting and dangerous spirit that he needs to avoid. But he is too late when his sweet dream turns to nightmare as Buppha is now on the rage again. And the bloody horror love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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Resurrection Mary (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a dark and creepy road, teenager Jeff Pryce nearly runs down a beautiful, yet mysterious young girl walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. Jeff offers to give her a ride and by the time he drops her off, a mutual attraction is obvious. But Jeff's life begins to spin out of control shortly after he asks "Mary" to be his date at Homecoming -- as one by one, his friends are brutally murdered. Having spent time in juvenile hall, Jeff becomes the prime suspect. Who is Mary? Why is everyone around him dying? And will Jeff's desperate measures to clear his name put him face-to-face with the real killer?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, slasher, independent film, serious, gloomy, psychotronic
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Pee Nak 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Peace has returned to ThammaNakanimitr Temple after Monk Nong, Monk First and Monk Balloon completed the mission to fulfill their pledges and won the battle with the ghost of Nak Nont.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ghost of Mae Nak (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mak and Nak are a young couple who have just moved into their first home as a married couple. But the house they own has a history much older than them and spirits who won't rest until they get what they want. And this time, love won't conquer all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher, asian horror
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Pee Mak (2013)
Plot Summary:
Some time during the Rattanakosin Kingdom, Mak becomes a soldier and has to leave his pregnant wife Nak at home in Phra Khanong. In the distant frontline he meets four soldiers who become his best friends. Menwhile his wife Nak struggles to give birth to their baby alone. When the war is over, Mak invites his friends to go to his home and meet his beautiful wife Nak. But in Phra Khanong the rumor goes around town that Nak is a ghost. After a series of uncanny events his four friends and some villagers try to tell Mak that his wife is already dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, touching, suspense, funny, disturbing, mystic, horror comedy, terrifying, twisted
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The Stick (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Unseeable (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualjin who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, surprise ending, asian horror
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Ghost Train (2006)
Plot Summary:
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mind bending, lovecraft
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Blood Stained Shoes (2012)
Plot Summary:
This film is set in the 1930s, and starts with a strange murder in a beautiful Jiangnan river delta. At the scene, all that is left is an exquisite pair of embroidered shoes. An innocent seamstress is suspected and put to death, but the bloody murders do not stop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Horror
Country: China
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Asian Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a dead Chinese railway worker seeking revenge possesses the body of a lethal assassin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Still 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
4 sleazy ghost stories inspired by pulpy true-crime cases. Each segment is themed according to numbers, 14, 16, 15 and 13, which are referenced by such things as a button worn by a brothel worker, the room number in a run-down hotel or a record spinning a lullaby to lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Walking the Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
His latest offering from serial horror movie director, Melanie Ansley is sure to send a chill down your spine. Charles, a western reporter, is exiled to a small village in south china where he discovers the most extraordinary story... He finds a small town whose folk move in an eerily slow manner, carrying out the strangest of deeds. Weirdly enough, the town cemetery is entirely barren. With only his wits about him, he must survive this, quite literally, dead town... and break the story to the rest of the world. The answers he finds will take him on an epic journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Big Monster War (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bizarre
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The Lost Platoon (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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R-Point (2004)
Plot Summary:
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, clever, suspense, disturbing, mind blowing
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The Sanctuary (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, the “Poisoned Knife” clan broke into the royal palace of Thailand to steal the Royal Antiques which the King intended to give to America as a reward for its help in negotiations that avoided Thai territorial cuts. The clan succeeded in stealing the antiques, but the thieves didn’t escape with their lives. Before their deaths, they hid the antiques somewhere close to the palace. During his interrogation, the last bandit chose to end his life by Master Sawang’s sword and let the place where the Royal Antiques were hidden die with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
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Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Plot Summary:
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, touching, scary, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Incubus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Things are starting to change when a group of mysterious teens move into the small town of Spoon River. All of a sudden, people in the neighborhood are starting to come down with an unexplained disease. In spite of this, one girl is intrigued by the spirits that embraces the newcomers. Will her curiosity be the death of her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, gothic, captivating, independent film, vintage
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The Child's Eye (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of breaking up, Ling (Elanne Kwong) and her brother Rex (Rex Ho), and Ciwi (Ciwi Lam) and her boyfriend Hei (Izz Xu). Their driver takes them to the old Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen (Lam Ka-tung), where strange things start happening as soon as they arrive: Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling a disembodied hand. At dinner that night, the three men mysteriously disappear. Under Rainie's leadership, the three girls - helped by the young Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang - set out to try and find them in the hotel's underground passages, in between being haunted by the female ghost and a strange monster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense, saga, scary, atmospheric
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Kaidan (2007)
Plot Summary:
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Grey Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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Blood Curse (2006)
Plot Summary:
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, suspense
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The Unborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on an urban legend that became the talk of the town in the year 2000. The story begins when Por wakes up in hospital, after being brutally beaten by a drug dealer, to find herself going to give birth. Frightened and confused, Por finds herself confronting strange and disturbing events. She hears the weird voice of a child, she can't see but whose doll moves around by it. As well, she has to deal with the appearance of a mysterious woman who she has never met before. Danger is all around her and she gets caught up in a series of life-threatening situations. Trapped between reality and illusion, Por faces the most terrifying experience of her life!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, surreal
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Banshee!!! (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. "Banshee!!!" takes the idea of the legendary Irish myth and spins it around into a terrifying and unstoppable monster!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious
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Red Sands (2009)
Plot Summary:
During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, demonic, spooky, surprise ending, disaster movie
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Bang Rajan (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the Royal army, the villagers drives the invading Burmese away many times until their names have become legendary during the time. As each subsequent battles becomes fiercer, the villagers tries to forge a canon to battle the enemy in a final battle where everyone, women and children included, die in combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, captivating, epic
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Morlocks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, psychotronic
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Bangkok Haunted (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not listed in the order from the truck of Transportation Company owned by Mr. Anake. She calls her former Professor Arkom, who identifies the markings for good luck that she describes and tells the story of the orphan Paga. In 1917, the renowned music teacher Jangwah-Chuem and his wife Peng raise the beautiful Paga with their deformed son Gnod. Paga is a good and loving sister and daughter and becomes a great beautiful dancer. When Paga falls in love for the handsome Fond, the jealous Gnod and she vanish from their village. Jieb investigates the mystery of their disappearance and discloses the eerie truth with tragic consequences. The second tale: The gorgeous Pam receives a sample from her next-door neighbor of a love potion that makes the user irresistible to men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, mind bending
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic