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Plot Summary:
A hardened criminal fresh out of the joint takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? And why are so many people drawn to Penance Lane?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing
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The Devil's Hour (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Triune, a dark and Unspeakable Secret... remembers. Percy Pullman is a successful author and pastor who has become the infatuation of a killer hell bent on terror. Meanwhile, Raymond Fisk, a young local teacher, exhibits signs of demonic possession that tempt him to brutally murder his entire family. Pullman must quickly confront this two front horror or be swept up in the event horizon of his own collapse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, slasher
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The Wailer 3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Daniel and Alice take their two young children to Alice's mother's house after the tragic and mysterious death of her father. Once there, Daniel learns about several unresolved murder and missing people cases. Daniel and his family also become victims of this town's dark faith when his wife mysteriously dies and his children go missing. Soon after this tragedy he begins to investigate what's haunting the town and its residents. In his research he discovers that his wife is a direct descendant of a women known as "La Llorona", the troubled mother who drowned her children after her husband's infidelity centuries ago. "La Llorona's" tortured should haunts everyone and her insatiable thirst for blood will destroy everyone in her path.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Definition of Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four beautiful girls spend the weekend at a charming holiday cabin. But all is not how it seems. They quickly discover that maybe they are not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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The House That Screamed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed writer rents a haunted house in which to write his latest novel and is soon beset by the various ghosts in the house bent on claiming him as their next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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The Sacrifice (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of his father, 16-year-old Jonathan Kelly moves with his mother to the small New Hampshire town of Dunkirk. He is immediately drawn to David, a boy who shares his interest in the occult, and a tentative romance begins to develop between them. But when the boys try to learn the truth behind a local ghost story, they discover that someone is digging up graves in the oldest part of the cemetery, collecting human remains for a dark ritual...a ritual that will end in human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, disturbing
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One Way Trip (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Horror
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surprise ending, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychedelic, bleak, disturbing
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Bill Huckstabelle: Serial Rapist (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the Bill Cosby rape allegations. The shockingly disturbing stories you only heard about on the news. Now you can see it… uncut… in all of it’s horrifying terror!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer (2001)
Plot Summary:
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Record of Sweet Murder (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sang-joon has recently escaped from a mental institution and managed to amass a kill count in the high teens, all while spewing nonsense about “the power of love”.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, mockumentary
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My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence (2015)
Plot Summary:
My Master Satan: 3 Tales of Drug Fueled Violence is an anthology horror film that features three tales that revolve around serial killer/druggie Alister (Dakota Bailey) & his equally demented serial killer friends Woody, Charlie and Bubba & takes the viewer deep into a seedy underworld of crime, drugs, depravity & murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology
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The Super (2010)
Plot Summary:
George Rossi, who immigrated to the US and served in the Vietnam war, is now a Superintendent of a Queens apartment building. He finds himself quickly slipping into a depraved world which is fueled by the tenants of the building.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, controversial, slasher
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Skagit (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape begins to warp their minds, plunging each of them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, experimental
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The Haunting of La Llorona (2019)
Plot Summary:
The screams of the children echo throughout the night as a violent reminder of a demon of the past. La Llorona, a paranormal force has returned and seeks the blood of the innocent, proving that the legend is real.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Scientist (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unconventional scientist, struggling to care for his terminally-ill wife, embarks on a journey to develop a cure for her. However, his methods of treatment and tampering with human DNA, could lead to the extinction of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, low-budget
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Tomato Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a small quite city in Indiana Lora comes up missing. Someone starts stalking women in the city in an attempt to calm his desires for the local news anchor Ann Marie. What starts as stalking soon becomes kidnapping which leads to the news mentioning about the Tomato Man. Tomato Man now sets his sights on Ann Marie. The Detectives are in a race to stop this Tomato Man before he Kills again.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Fear Footage: 3AM (2021)
Plot Summary:
Dennis Rosen disappeared on September 19th, 2020, while filming an episode for his urban exploration channel 'Dennis the explorer'. He was exploring Darkbluff, Maryland, a town that authorities discovered abandoned during their search for Dennis. They also discovered a camera. This footage was on that camera.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Barrio Tales (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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1st Summoning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four student filmmakers set out to explore an abandoned building famous for its connection with the occult, but as their journey becomes littered with strange behavior and unexplained phenomena, it becomes clear the horror they are attempting to document may already be lurking among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, enigmatic
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The Ouija Exorcism (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, a celebrated exorcist trapped a horrific demon inside a ouija board. Thinking the board to be a game, his son played without obeying the rules, and let the demon loose. In order to save his son, the exorcist sent him far away until the demon could be destroyed. Thirty years later, and after his death, his grandson finds the board and makes the same mistake his father did. Now the evil is back and roaming the earth to terrorize those responsible for its imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Terrified (2017)
Plot Summary:
Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky, psychological horror, psychological, atmospheric, dark, slasher
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Atomic Zombies!!! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two weeks after a local nuclear power plant explosion (which totally wasn't an evil secret Nazi research laboratory), zombies have taken over the town!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Condo Hell (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer stalks guests during an open house weekend at a giant secluded luxury condominium estate.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Bring Me a Dream (2020)
Plot Summary:
on the run for murder, Avery Quinn bursts into Alpha Omega Pi house looking for help. Desperate to prove her innocence and her sanity, she holds a handful of people hostage and forces them into the reality of her ongoing nightmare. As a last resort, she summons the legendary Sandman and from that point on, all of the unfortunate souls inside have two choices: Face their worst nightmares...or...face the Sandman.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy
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Pig (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, extreme horror, weird
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Heart of the Home (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life turns into a living nightmare when she takes in a roommate who makes wigs from human hair.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Halloween II (2009)
Plot Summary:
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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Abigail Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Halloween (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, suspense, creepy, stylized, rough