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Plot Summary:
15 international directors reunite to re-tell Edgar Allan Poe's most popular terror tales.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, stylized, serious, surreal, anthology, disturbing
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Fantasmi (2011)
Plot Summary:
The dead never forget.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, anthology, dark fairy tale
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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Plot Summary:
The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, psychotronic, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina, New Zealand, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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The Pyramid (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology, splatter
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Village of the Vampire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca is searching for her sister, a young journalist who went missing while investigating a series of unfortunate events. The trail leads her to Timere, a remote place far from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where amidst the tight lipped silence of the town's inhabitants there's an ever growing fear of dark forces at work and no-one dares to leave their home at night. Here Rebecca meets an extravagant writer, the church warden of the town and above all Caleb, a charming, rich and elegant man whose dark gaze hides a chilling secret. It's in this town, where time appears to move between the shadows and danger lurks around every corner that Rebecca learns of the terrible truth and the battle between good and evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Stitches (2001)
Plot Summary:
Combining the body parts and skin from her victims, a wicked sorceress stitches together her subjects.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense, independent film, semi serious
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Unborn But Forgotten (2002)
Plot Summary:
A website is seemingly killing every woman who views it within fifteen days. While investigating the phenomenon, a female reporter begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of the site known only as The White Room.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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P.O.E.: Project of Evil (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following up the successful "P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie", some of the original filmmakers regrouped for this newest experiment which aims to bring the tales of Edgar Allen Poe to life through the distinct lens of Italian horror with spoken English. While the original film's focus was the poetic and macabre dimension of the infamous Boston author, this sequel focuses instead on the bloody, violent and disturbing. Stories include 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'Solo', 'Loss of Breath', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The System of Dr. Tar and Prof. Feather', and 'The Premature Burial'... Like you've never seen before!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, rough, bleak, disturbing, stylized
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Drive In Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychotronic, detective, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
Plot Summary:
Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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Before Someone Gets Hurt (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master prank or if the house is actually haunted. Unfortunately, they don't find the answer until it is far too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Fox Trap (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a terrible accident leaves a young girl disabled, five years later, the group responsible are invited to a remote manor house in the countryside for a class reunion. Little do they know, they are being targeted by a masked maniac hell bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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A Real Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire. Angela has an unresolved trauma and has kink sex with strangers in the hospital or with the gatekeeper of her building. When a detective meets Angela and tells her that a man that raped her had not died as she thought, the frightening Angela gets Estrella at the bus stop and once at home she prepares a pizza for them. However, Estrella invites her friend Vampire to join them, and when Angela sees her daughter's friend, she feels scary, haunted by her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, suspense, grindhouse, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, spooky, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, asian horror
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Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic, surreal, grindhouse, slasher, sexy
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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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Under the Salt (2008)
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A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, twisted, serious
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Silk (2006)
Plot Summary:
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, mystical, clever, surreal, disturbing, splatter
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Flashback (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, realistic, teen horror
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Altar (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, demonic, esoteric, offbeat, surprise ending
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File 253 (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 2013 a psychiatric clinic which served for more than 50 years caring for patients in Mexico City was demolished. A few months before its demolition, four young men came to investigate the clinic, determined to discover the truth about rumors of strange and paranormal events, recording everything with which they encounter. Today, the whereabouts of these four young men are unknown, remaining only fragments of their recordings.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary
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Il nascondiglio (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
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The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal, slasher, suspense, disturbing, controversial, scary
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
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Three (2002)
Plot Summary:
Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and discovers her mutilated body in a large bag in his home (Korea). The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires, deaths, physical pain and a little girl to be possessed (Thailand). Going Home: A father goes in search of his missing son and is abducted by a strange man. The strangers wife has died of cancer three years prior but he keeps her in his apartment under the impression she will 'wake up' (Hong Kong).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, surreal, dark fairy tale, serious
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Plot Summary:
An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town except our young heroes Scott and Jessie who rediscover their love for each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, cult horror, spooky
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The Ring Two (2005)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, creepy, stylized, suspenseful, intense, psychological thriller, demonic, spooky
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Episode 50 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Unaired (2010)
Plot Summary:
S.P.I is entering its third season as the most watched Paranormal Hunting program with its Halloween premiere. The team is investigating a haunted garage/basement on secluded property and prepping to create some soaring ratings with scary content. Upon investigation however, they see that what they all fabricate, may in fact be very real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film