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Plot Summary:
Three young musicians think they have luck on their side when they score the keys to a beautiful villa outside of Rome for the weekend. Unfortunately, they soon discover that they are not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Savages Crossing (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Human Zoo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Contestants on a reality TV show must stay in solitary confinement to win a $1 million prize.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, non fiction
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Cold Sweat (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. An unconditional friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside await two brutal murderers, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives that were lost since the last military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, rough
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Shelter in Place (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a global pandemic limits the possibility of travel, a honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where a skeleton staff of two employees tend to them. As tensions escalate amidst a forced lockdown, it becomes apparent there is more to fear at the storied hotel than just cabin fever.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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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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Stay Out Stay Alive (2019)
Plot Summary:
After an earthquake uncovers an abandoned goldmine, a hiker falls in and is trapped, forcing friends to grapple with a moral dilemma that spirals into madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Red Room (2019)
Plot Summary:
Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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Fractured (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film follows "Dylan White" who works as a cook in Baton Rouge. He is also in a solid relationship with his girlfriend "Brandy". Things are great until strange events prompt him to seek out the truth about himself -- following clues, Dylan discovers a dark past in New Orleans. Can he right his past wrongs and find redemption for his sins?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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New Terminal Hotel (2010)
Plot Summary:
Don Malek (Stephen Geoffreys) isn't the usual tenant found in the skid row hotels of downtown L.A. Grief-stricken since the murder of his fiancee Katherin, the successful screenwriter-turned murderous vigilante is bent on revenge against studio head Stanley Glissberg, the man cleared of murder charges in Katherin's death. Don can't forget - and Glissberg's going to pay. Enter Don's tenacious literary agent, Ava Collins (Tiffany Shepis), who tracks him down and wants to sell his manuscript - if there is one - or cut him loose. He assures her he's holed-up in the cheap room to write, and his story's a work-in-progress. Adding to his slippery slope, Don calls in a favor from a neighbor, and in doing so, uncovers despicable abuses down the hall. Spitz (Ezra Buzzington) is a hard-drinking former Marine and paraplegic, with a penchant for hookers and a violent streak. When he demands a return of the favor, Don must choose between turning a blind eye, or quickening his own destructive spiral.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Island of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on a deserted island, a group of people struggle to survive against a swarm of supernatural flies.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, dark, independent film, psychotronic
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Prisoner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
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Detour (2009)
Plot Summary:
Driving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one creepy incident after another leaves them stranded in the dark woods and everything seems much too bizarre to be accidental.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, realistic
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Candy House (2011)
Plot Summary:
Maria (Annika Strauß) is happy. Her little sister Kira (Alex Anasuya) returns after being gone for a bunch of months, caused by the death of their beloved mother. When Maria and Kira stayed at their family's house for the first night after a long time, strangers enter the house and start a night full of fear, horror and torture. Everyone who enters the family's house has to fight for his life... What do the strangers want? And what is the secret behind the family's past?.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, splatter
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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani's jaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspense, disturbing, controversial, offbeat
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Darkroom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, slasher, serious, realistic
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Romina (2018)
Plot Summary:
A shocking assault inspires horrific violence when a group of teens encounters a girl from their school while camping in a remote spot.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Farm (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young couple gets kidnapped and treated like farm animals after stopping at a roadside diner to eat meat.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, enigmatic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, weird
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After... (2006)
Plot Summary:
Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark, closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow, and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces him to confront it head-on, with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, independent film
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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Basement (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary, offbeat, serious
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Lost Signal (2006)
Plot Summary:
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, serious, scary, dark, slasher, psychological
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Deadly Weekend (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film, bloody
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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Farm House (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in the modern day mid-west, the film focuses on a young couple trying to establish a new life. They become stranded in a very isolated vineyard. They are forced to face secrets from their own pasts and the malicous intents of the vineyard's inhabitant who turn out to be demons from hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, twist ending, extreme horror, tense, independent film
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Tempus Tormentum (2018)
Plot Summary:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, suspense, psychotronic, psycho film
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
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Entity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, grindhouse, spooky
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Kill Theory (2009)
Plot Summary:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspense, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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The Executioners (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four female friends spend the night in a mansion. Their joy is quickly shattered when three men break in and cruelly attack them. As the night takes a darker turn, they find themselves relishing in the violence they had once suffered.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, surprise ending, disturbing
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Timber Falls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bleak, slasher, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, splatter