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Plot Summary:
AKUMA TANTEI 2 is all about unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated. It is as much a true horror film as it is a psychological drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, dark fantasy
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GhostWatcher 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a young girl begins hearing voices, she hires the "GhostWatcher," Laura Kove, to investigate who the voices belong to and what they want.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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The Curse of Hobbes House (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her Grandmother, Jane Dormant travels to the family’s remote, ancestral home hoping to receive a large inheritance. When Jane’s estranged, half-sister Jennifer arrives at Hobbes House to claim her part of the estate, the sisters’ simmering hate breaks out completely. But then a violent, unexpected storm cuts the estate off from outside help and a wave of bloodthirsty zombies lays siege. Now the sisters have to learn how to fight back together.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, independent film
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Karaoke Terror (2003)
Plot Summary:
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Suicide Manual (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
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Bleeding Through (2012)
Plot Summary:
Months after the brutal car accident that killed her parents, sensitive college student Lindsey still struggles with overwhelming grief. Pressure from her brother to sell the family home, financial stressors and failing grades send Lindsey spiraling into a dark pit of depression, her only resource a new friendship and possibility of romance. But when romance turns into vicious betrayal, Lindsey unearths a capacity for violence and bloody revenge from beyond the grave!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, bleak, suspense, queer horror, realistic
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Visit (2010)
Plot Summary:
For the sake of her son, Paolo, Stella is re-married to another man, Anton, in the hopes of a having a whole and peaceful family life. However, after the wedding, she experiences major haunting that endangers her life and the people around her. All the clues are pointing to her dead husband. Feeling guilty of her ex-husband’s death, Stella tries to save her family from the ghost’s wrath. Along the way, secrets start to unravel and Stella is now unsure of who is haunting her and why she is being haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, rough, offbeat, humorous
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Horse, Woman, Dog (1990)
Plot Summary:
Typically urban pinku-eiga filmmaker Hisayasu Sato switched to a rural local for this graphic descent into softcore sleaze and bestiality. At heart, the film is an extremely perverse rural Gothic reminiscent of Western '70s films like Pets and Dvaergen, in which a necrophilic man lives in a secluded house with a female amnesiac and a woman who murdered her sister. Sato centers his attention on the psycho-sexual deterioration of his protagonists, while Shintoho publicity played on star Kanako Kishi's outrageous sex scenes with canine and equine "lovers," ensuring that an otherwise routine film became a minor succès de scandale.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, surreal, pink cinema, sexploitation film, cult film
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Siberia (2020)
Plot Summary:
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, Germany, Mexico, Greece, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal
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Ghost Lab (2021)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy, anamorphic
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Seance (2007)
Plot Summary:
Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija board from when they were kids. The Ouija board is burned by accident before they are able to finish the ritual, trapping a murderous entity around them. As they begin to realize the terror that they have brought upon themselves, Aileen and Romina's hostile relationship even become more strained, while Lucy's sanity brings a heavy burden on Sandra, and Ruth's boyfriend, Gino, is unknowingly pulled into the danger and horror that await all of them. Confronted by imminent Death, the girls have nowhere to go unless they can identify the spirit and find out where it is buried. It is only by leading the spirit to its burial ground that they will able to release the spirit from the Ouija board and survive its fatal hauntings.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Kotoko (2011)
Plot Summary:
Suffering from double vision, a single mother (Cocco) tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist (Tsukamoto) overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, clever, psychedelic, slasher, cult classic, avant garde, weird
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The Eclipse (2009)
Plot Summary:
Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction (Hjelje). While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own—she’s being jealously pursued by a self-obsessed novelist (Quinn), her one-time lover. As the three adults’ lives converge, the turbulence of the phantom world will soon have nothing on that of the living.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, spooky, psychological
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The Heirloom (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, offbeat, detective
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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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Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
Plot Summary:
This Mexican horror film concerns about a group of college students, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also consists of a hanged woman's body. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the teacher has seen her ghost.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, splatter, creepy, psychotronic, weird
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The Scissors Massacre (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko works at a beauty salon and the youngest, Mayu, is on the track team in high school. Their happy, carefree lives are changed forever when Yukies ex-boyfriend Suzuki commits an atrocious crime with Mayu as the tragic victim. Half-crazed and bent on revenge against the Sawada family, Suzuki mistakes Mayu for Yukie and pours acid all over her face. Overwhelmed by physical and psychological trauma, Mayu sinks deeper into depression and isolation, unresponsive to her sisters encouragement Meanwhile, chilling news of a serial murderer, who preys on the alumni of Mayus high school, sends shockwaves through their small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, slasher, terrifying, asian horror
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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Plot Summary:
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, realistic, scary, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, psychedelic, suspense, dark
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The Broken (2008)
Plot Summary:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, surreal, scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, heartbreaking
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Dorm (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable -- until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, scary, suspense
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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
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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
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Face (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung Sun-young comes to his house bringing the skull of a victim of a serial-killer that had her whole body melted down with acid by the murderer. Hyun-min refuses the assignment, but he is haunted by the ghost of the victim and scared he decides to reconstruct the face of the woman. When Jin has trouble with the transplanted heart, Hyun-min requests the donor case history to Dr. Yoon, but the doctor refuses to give the information, claiming confidentiality issue. Dr. Yoon becomes the prime suspect of Detective Suh, who is in charge of the investigation of the murder cases, and he discloses the identity of the victim based on the reconstructed face.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Der Todesking: The Death King (1990)
Plot Summary:
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, splatter, crying, controversial, psychological, offbeat, bloody, dark, art house
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, inspirational, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Black Cat (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Plot Summary:
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy, bleak
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Ghost Stories (2017)
Plot Summary:
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, spooky, enigmatic, suspense, scary, psychological thriller, dark, splatter, post-horror, realistic
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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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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Dumplings (2004)
Plot Summary:
A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei cooks her some special dumplings which she claims to be effective for rejuvenation, but these dumplings hide a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, surreal, atmospheric, bloody, controversial, intense, creepy