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Plot Summary:
A group of friends get lost in the seedy streets where they encounter a crazed gang of homeless derelicts that seizes them and kills them one by one. The surviving man escapes on foot, naked and unarmed, with a pack of depraved transients in pursuit, and only seconds away from capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, retro
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Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ailing, egotistical and sexually perverted rock-star Bobby Barzell (who sold his soul for wealth and rock and roll stardom) awaits a liver transplant from a psychotic fugitive of the law; as a vengeful, demonic alien tries to collect a past debt.
IMDB Rating: 1.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, neo noir, independent film, exciting
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The Taking (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers must discover a way to escape a sinister family who wishes to sacrifice their souls to an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, weird
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Hell Trip (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young tourists arrive at an abandoned lodge in Africa that holds an ominous and deadly secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Corbin Nash (2018)
Plot Summary:
A rogue police detective in search of his parents killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, tense, suspenseful, queer horror, independent film
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VFW (2019)
Plot Summary:
A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychological, bloody, experimental, mumblecore, disturbing, grindhouse, hood, dark comedy
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She Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Escape from Marwin (2018)
Plot Summary:
In life, we all deserve second chances. It doesn't matter what we have done. What if we were given a second opportunity in the form of an "escape room"? Annually, prisoners sentenced to the death penalty have the option to play this game and be able to get the great prize that they desire, their freedom.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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The Demolisher (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bruce is a repairman tormented by a crippling sense of responsibility for his disabled wife Samantha, an ex-policewoman. Bruce’s increasing hypersensitivity to the injustice suffered by his wife steers him down a dark path of vigilantism. His disintegrating mental health, paranoia and overwhelming sense of doom causes Bruce to channel his rage towards a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, weird, psycho film
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Malibu Horror Story (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 2012, four Malibu teenagers disappeared without a trace. This documentary narrative takes a look inside one of the most bizarre and disturbing unsolved missing persons cases in Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, teen horror
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Evil Deeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Thief encounters a strange old Hermit who tells him tales of Evil Deeds - including a Detective's search for a escaped mental patient, a tale of young lady and her new beau who arrange to have her abusive father killed and the body disposed of - unfortunately he doesn't stay dead, and a babysitter is tormented by phone calls from a demented man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Downrange (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stranded at the side of the road after a tire blowout, a group of friends become targets for an enigmatic sniper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, cliffhanger, mumblecore, disturbing, splatter, corny
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The Maze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, slasher
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Prom Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the school year for a group of high school friends. Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, he is determined to have them Dead On Arrival. The teens are tortured while being held hostage, and soon turn on each other for survival. By the end, we learn that one of the teens had been keeping a secret that played a bigger role in their demise.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Furies (2019)
Plot Summary:
A gripping female-driven horror film where a young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game. A game that can only have one winner. The film burrows into universal themes of survival, revenge and redemption, and reveals the darkness lurking within us all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, psychological, brutal, exciting, tense, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hunted (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Ireland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, fairy tale, weird
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
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Stag Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, disturbing, dark, underground film, serious
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Code Name Banshee (2022)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, serious, bloody, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing
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Skull Forest (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four female friends embark on a weekend camping expedition into the woods. Things go horribly awry when the quartet runs afoul of a group of wicked rich folks who enjoy hunting humans for sport. Will any of these ladies make it out of the forest alive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Home Invasion (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an eerie voice of someone outside of the room. Throughout, they use their minds to try to think as to why they are there. As time elapses the stakes and chances for survival are slim, but the question remains: who is behind this - the end reveals a startling answer.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Odds Are (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Shark Season (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dozens of great white sharks attack the sleepy coastal town of Goldcoast, CA, resulting in several deaths and forcing the town council to bring in a group of marine biologists and shark hunters to solve the problem. But when one shark in particular refuses to go down without a fight, it will take all of the biologists’ and hunters’ knowhow to defeat the creature for good.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, intense
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The Last Heist (2016)
Plot Summary:
A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer. Trapping the well-organized team of bank robbers in the building, the killer is now picking them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, psycho film
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Sickness (2017)
Plot Summary:
On this ill-fated day when many in this sector of the world go completely insane, a group of virtual strangers left with sanity have to fight to stay alive by fending off those out for blood. The heart and courage of different individuals are tested, as they have to figure out how to survive this chaotic onslaught of murder and mayhem, all caused by those with a mysterious sickness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic