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Plot Summary:
Courtney Snow, an author with writer's block, still haunted by the suicide of her best friend while they were in prep school, finds herself teaching at the very same school while trying to get back on her feet. She encounters a young student, Laurel, who seems in every way to be the reincarnation of her best friend from years ago. Laurel seems to know things about Courtney that only dead friend would have known. Is she losing her mind or is it all a cruel hoax?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, serious
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Dead Innocent (1997)
Plot Summary:
Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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They Come Back (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who mysteriously disappeared. And the shrink worries that if she can't unravel the workings of the 10-year-old's psyche (and soon!), this little girl is destined for the same unknown fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, offbeat
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House of Bad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family house, its painful memories quickly become too real to fight off. Three sisters with a history, a suitcase full of stolen drugs, and a family house with a dark secret is the recipe for terror in House of Bad.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological, realistic
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Hush Little Baby (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young mother suffers her worst nightmare -the drowning of her young daughter. Two years later, Jamie gives birth to another girl. After a series of suspicious accidents, Jamie becomes haunted by fears that her dead daughter's vengeful spirit has returned in her new baby. Is she right, or is guilt over her daughter's death pushing her sanity over the edge? Written by Anonymous.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, realistic, cult film
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Child's Play (1972)
Plot Summary:
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, suspense, mind bending, clever, realistic, talky
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The Unleashed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. Lindsay, a childhood friend of Madisons with an adventurous nature, hears of Madison's arrival and has every intention of reconnecting a friendship once had. Bizarre and unexplainable events occur within the house after old friends come together and dabble with the infamous Ouija board. Lindsay, being all too curious of the board and its undeniable power, gives into the persuasion of an unknown entity and allows it to possess her. Madison must overpower her deepest fears and find a way to release Lindsay and abolish the presence that haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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Urban Ghost Story (1998)
Plot Summary:
After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead, something latched on to her and came back into her world. The nightmares and visions that follow only crystallize her belief that she should have died in the crash... Then the disturbances start, at first merely tappings and bad smells - but soon the activity escalates. Lizzie seems to be the focus, but according to others, she's just playing games for attention. Only when Kate, her mother, is confronted with inexplicable events does she face the possibility that they may be the victims of a poltergeist infestation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Wishing Stairs (2003)
Plot Summary:
A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark drama
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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
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Asylum (1997)
Plot Summary:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Turn of the Screw (1999)
Plot Summary:
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, spiritual, slasher, costume drama, psychological horror, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious
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Drowning Ghost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity. Sara, a student, is writting an essay based on the legend and uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows on the family name of one of the school's main benificiaries. On the night of the hundreth anniversary, the festivities go awry, students disappear and something dark and unknown is moving through the schools corridors.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, mind bending, realistic, teen horror
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Hurt (2009)
Plot Summary:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, scary, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Blood Pledge (2009)
Plot Summary:
Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un finds out that on the night of the incident, Soy, Eugene, Eun-young, Unjoo, the four of them had tried to commit a joint suicide after making a vow on blood. But the three are still alive, and only Unjoo had died. the desire, jealousy, and lies behind the pledge of death between the four girls are revealed, along with the hidden truth behind Unjoo’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Matrimony (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary, serious, realistic, asian horror
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They're Watching Us (2002)
Plot Summary:
Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Presence of Mind (1999)
Plot Summary:
Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella Jones). She is hired by their uncle, the Master (Harvey Keitel), who became the guardian of the youngsters after the death of their parents. While the governess is initially enthusiastic about her job, Miles and Flora soon prove to be quite a handful, and the housekeeper Mrs. Grose (Lauren Bacall), who oversees most of the activities at the Master's estate, is openly antagonistic to her. Before long, the governess discovers the house bears a dark secret involving Miss Jessel (Dayne Danika), the previous governess, and Fosc (Agusti Villaronga), the Master's former valet. El Celo was the first feature from director Antoni Aloy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, stylized, psychotronic
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The Disappeared (2008)
Plot Summary:
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, mysterious, thrilling, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Hipnos (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, scary, clever, unpredictable, realistic, weird
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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13 Curses (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, offbeat, realistic
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Inheritance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one fateful night Lillian passes away in her sleep. Abigail is obviously upset & attends Lillian's funeral to say her goodbyes, it soon comes to light that Lillian has left Abigail her large house & it's entire contents a situation which Lillian's daughter Joan (Kathryn Mesney-Hetter) is unhappy with. The reason for Lillian's generosity becomes clear as her spirit starts to possess Abigail & take complete control of her body.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary
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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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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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Daddy's Girl (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, terrifying, independent film, mind bending, slasher
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Soft for Digging (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man wanders into the woods in search of his cat and witnesses a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, spooky
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Forget Me Not (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, mind twisting, suspense, dark, mind bending, creepy
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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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Vampire (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy, gothic, bleak, gloomy
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The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic, slasher, costume drama, psychotronic, mind bending, period drama