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Plot Summary:
When a mysterious entity manifests itself, a family finds themselves on a scary and dark journey into their own self-created madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Harbinger (2022)
Plot Summary:
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: detective, supernatural thriller
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American Conjuring (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone….
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Devil Beneath (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two estranged brothers come together and discover old family secrets after inheriting their grandfather's property. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by a creature lurking in the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Out of Exile (2022)
Plot Summary:
Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Devil's Workshop (2022)
Plot Summary:
Desperate for a role as a demonologist, struggling actor Clayton contacts Eliza, an expert in devil lore, to help him prepare. As he spends the weekend at her home, Eliza forces Clayton to confront his troubling past, perform dark rituals, and sacrifice a goat. Does she want to help Clayton, seduce him—or destroy him?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Summer of Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
The presence of a malicious stranger threatens to destroy the peace and harmony of a vacationing executive's family life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Island City (2015)
Plot Summary:
Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Willies (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational story told from a Christian perspective about complex characters who resist embracing God's plans for them because they're too wrapped up in what society wants them to be.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Leave (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Welcome to Mercy (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a single mother begins to experience symptoms of the stigmata, she seeks the help of a local priest and nun to help her understand what is seen and unseen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological horror, spooky
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The Ghost Within (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young woman revisits her family home desperate to discover her sister Evie's murderer 20 years before. After a series of terrifying encounters with Evie's ghost at 09:09pm, Margot knows she must fight to learn the truth once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Tigisti (2012)
Plot Summary:
A malicious business partner, Mr. Fissehaye plots to remove his partner Amanual. Fissehaye sees an opportunity through his new employee Tigisti, an orphans and desperately in need of a job. The plot takes an unexpected twist when Zablon, the son of Mr Fissehaye complicates the plan. "Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Eritrea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lost Child (2017)
Plot Summary:
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy's identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, southern gothic
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Roadside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dan Summers and his pregnant wife, Mindy, fight for their lives when they are held hostage in their car by an unseen gunman on the side of a desolate mountain road.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Forgotten Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman with amnesia tries to restart her life until the past comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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The Accursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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After She Wakes (2019)
Plot Summary:
After tragic death of her baby son, a narcoleptic mother with young daughter suffers from terrifying sleep disruptions as they try to deal with ongoing pain and grief. They begin experiencing different episodes of parasomnia including night terrors and sleep paralysis, leaving them unable to move and only able to witness horrific visions. These nightmares become too disturbing as they create a rift in their own realities causing the mother to believe someone or something is watching her sleep every night. Soon the terrifying visions from their dreams begin to manifest into a sinister reality, leaving the mother vulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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I Trapped the Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, christmas horror, psychological, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, mumblecore, satanic
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Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aftermath (2021)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal to move into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the house's troubled history.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, scary, psychological thriller
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Other Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Inhabited (2003)
Plot Summary:
After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil 'fairies' are equally dismissed, but get worse. Self-appointed handyman warns Iver Hagen them for 'things worse than ghosts' and ever scarier things happen. Ma irrationally believes the house bad yet refuses long to have Gina examined by Dr. Werner, who has a patient Olive obsessed by similar trolls. By the time the pieces are fitted, it may be too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense
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Monster Portal (2022)
Plot Summary:
A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, lovecraft
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Wish Upon (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, inspirational
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Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
Plot Summary:
Forced to travel with her boyfriend to a horror festival, Laine begins to experience disturbing visions associated with the urban legend of The Creeper. As the festival arrives and the blood-soaked entertainment builds to a frenzy, she believes that something unearthly has been summoned… and that she is at the center of it.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, bloody, suspense, meta
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The Omen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, intense, stylized, demonic, splatter, religious horror
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Abandoned (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror
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The Guardian (1990)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, creepy, atmospheric, slasher, dark, demonic, psychological