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Plot Summary:
Senegalese immigrant Aisha lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film
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My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their little brother Thomas, a sickly child with a mysterious affliction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, slasher, art house, gloomy, weird
Similar in 82%
Two Girls for a Madman (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two young girls in New York City studying to be ballet dancers are chosen by a crazed sex fiend to be his next victims. He rapes one of them at gunpoint and then proceeds to stalk and terrorize both of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
A Taste of Flesh (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two professional assassins take over the home of two women (who happen to be lesbians) and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, queer horror, independent film
Similar in 75%
They Wait in the Dark (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric
Similar in 81%
Anguish (2015)
Plot Summary:
A new girl in a quiet town, Tess tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom. After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy, a hit and run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts to question her sanity again. When the spirit possesses Tess’s mind and soul, mother and daughter are at a loss for where to turn next for salvation: religion or medicine? Both institutions have failed them to date but faith leads them to the house of Sarah, Lucy’s mother, who has been despondent since the accident. All together with time working against them, Sarah is desperate to believe that Lucy is still alive in Tess but neither parent wants to give up on their daughter. Now that she understands what is happening to her, ultimately Tess must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb to her affliction.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
Similar in 82%
It Lives Inside (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sam is desperate to fit in at school, rejecting her Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. When a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage in order to defeat it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, demonic
Similar in 75%
Play Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, brutal, independent film, awful
Similar in 78%
Matriarch (2022)
Plot Summary:
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric
Similar in 80%
The Queen of Black Magic (1981)
Plot Summary:
A woman is seduced by and cast aside by a fickle lover. When the lover marries another woman who starts hallucinating during their wedding, she is accused of being a witch and thrown to her death over a cliff. A strange man rescues her, nurses her back to health, and is told that she must master black magic in order to exact vengeance on her tormentors. She casts a variety of spells over the populace--with the male population as her favorite target, and becomes the queen of black magic. But who, exactly, is the man, and does he have other plans?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, crying, psychotronic
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The Amityville Murders (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, demonic, splatter, psychotronic
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Spirit Lost (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carolina coast. But they quickly discover that their quaint new house already has a long-standing tenant. Built 200 years ago by a philandering sea captain, the house is residence to the spirit of Arabella, an abandoned lover with an insatiable, centuries-old lust and a viciously jealous nature. Spirit Lost welcomes you to the dark side of Ghost - an erotic tale of the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, atmospheric, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, soap opera, sexual
Similar in 84%
Aatma (2013)
Plot Summary:
A single mother fights against the supernatural in order to hold on to her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Violation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, transgressive, weird
Similar in 82%
We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
Plot Summary:
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore, weird
Similar in 77%
Cookers (2001)
Plot Summary:
After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will hear their screams either. Turns out, they may not be alone after all. It seems this farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Now, holed up together with nothing to do but snort, smoke and shoot up, the strung-out "cookers" fall prey to paranoia, private demons and terrifying visions which, whether they are hallucinations or hauntings, are equally terrifying and just as deadly!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, independent film, realistic, cult film
Similar in 82%
Watcher (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, dark, scary, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, neo noir
Similar in 86%
Evil Heritage (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, satanic, demonic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
You Are Not My Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, intellectual, slasher, weird
Similar in 84%
Martyrs Lane (2021)
Plot Summary:
Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, atmospheric
Similar in 89%
The Witch in the Window (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, psychological horror, spooky, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 85%
Martin (1977)
Plot Summary:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, creepy, cult classic, cult horror
Similar in 81%
The Entity (1982)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, splatter, sexual, slasher, terrifying
Similar in 80%
The Stylist (2020)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, psychotronic, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, weird
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 84%
Hungry Wives (1972)
Plot Summary:
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, demonic, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, phantasmagoric, independent film, scary, psychological
Similar in 76%
Nadja (1994)
Plot Summary:
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black and white, art house, cult classic, queer horror, atmospheric, stylized, psychological thriller, retro, philosophical, sensual
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Haunted (1995)
Plot Summary:
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, serious, spiritual
Similar in 77%
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
Similar in 81%
The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic
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Jack & Diane (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, erotic, cult classic, dark drama, profound, queer horror, offbeat, independent film