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Plot Summary:
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Jigsaw (2002)
Plot Summary:
A college class tackles a bizarre project - splitting up a mannequin, they each decorate a piece. The net result is an exquisite corpse they name 'Jigsaw'. After a night of drunken confessions, the group burns the lifeless body but their darkest secrets come back to haunt them when their brainchild rises from the ashes, targeting each of the creators for a brutal death that is in keeping with their own fears!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult film
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Cthulhu (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Arkham, Dan Upton (Adam Soames) is worried that his friend Edward Derby (James Payne) is being led into a cult like group by his new girlfriend Asenath Waite (Melissa Georgiou). Meanwhile, Inspector LeGrasse (Paul Douglas)investigates a spate of bizarre killings around the town, in which the victims have been decapitated and drained of blood. LeGrasse believes the murders may be linked to a Cthulhu cult active in the nearby towns of Innsmouth and Dunwich - that was headed by Asenath's late father Ephraim Waite. As Edward begins to behave more and more strangely, Dan and LeGrasse go to Miskatonic University to seek the help of Professor Armitage (Marcel Miller) an expert in weird cults and ancient myths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, independent film
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Unholy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania, comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn't succeed in stopping her child's horrific demise, but the girl's death gradually leads the grieving mother to investigate a conspiracy that involves a legendary local witch, Nazi dabbling with the occult, and secret government experiments, with the story even referencing the fabled Philadelphia Experiment.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing, independent film, scary, slasher
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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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The 7th Dimension (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two young women arrive at a curious penthouse apartment, led by one's crush on her tutor. However, her love interest doesn't live alone. He's part of a trio of computer hackers about to embark on the ultimate job on the world's most mysterious mainframe. Whilst doing so, they unlock more than they bargain for with supernatural and ultimately fatal results. Can this seemingly insignificant chain of events, which have thrown this group together, be construed as fate? Can the beacon provide a signal of hope or is it a web of manipulation, paranoia and ultimately... murder?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, cyber, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
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KatieBird* Certifiable Crazy Person (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the obviously psychotic Katiebird immediately after the death of her father.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, controversial
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Last the Night (2022)
Plot Summary:
During the pandemic, a burned-out teacher on the verge of a breakdown overhears his students making fun of him in a Zoom class and vows revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House (2021)
Plot Summary:
Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, a graduate student unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mystical, tense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, lovecraft
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Deadly Reunion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after graduation, a mini-reunion is organized by Tom and Jill Miller at their home, inviting only the special friends that were in their clique and one fringe member, Bobby Zwick, whom they had done a terrible wrong. Bobby said all was forgiven, but he was not telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Corridor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, lovecraft, scary, tense, suspense, slasher, light, disturbing
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The Secrets of Emily Blair (2016)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp Women, The Wasp Woman, and The Beast with a Million Eyes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, tense, harsh, disturbing, grindhouse, talky
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American Gothic (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Chill (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, awful
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True Fiction (2019)
Plot Summary:
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, dark
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Alien Strain (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a camping trip, Matthew's girlfriend Rachel was abducted by a UFO. A year later Rachel returns to the very spot from which she was taken but the creature she has become has Matthew fearing for his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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The Dunwich Horror (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, psychotronic
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Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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The Last Possession (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young family is forced to relocate to the husband's childhood home and believe they are being terrorized by the ghost of the grandfather who committed suicide there only to find out they are horrifyingly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, light
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Sella Turcica (2010)
Plot Summary:
A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, perverse, independent film, cult film
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The Blazing World (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Housewife (2017)
Plot Summary:
Housewife is centered on Holly whose mother murdered her sister and father when she was seven. 20 years later and slowly losing her grip on the difference between reality and nightmares, she runs into a celebrity psychic who claims that he is destined to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, lovecraft, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, surreal, disturbing
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The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
Plot Summary:
Massena, New York, 1998. A decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a woman who kidnapped five young girls and pretended they were her own. Only one girl, Christina Bowden, managed to get away with her life, the other four found buried behind Caulfield's decrepit home... 20 years later, Caulfield has escaped from prison and launches a deadly pursuit to finish what she began. Christina's seemingly perfect life comes crashing down around her as the secrets of her past come back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, mindfuck
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Banshee Chapter (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs run by the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, lovecraft, disturbing, psychological, spooky, suspense, surreal, satanic, splatter, psychological horror
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Intersect (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Take Shelter (2011)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, disturbing, stylized, independent film
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Altered States (1980)
Plot Summary:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, mind bending, scary, suspense, philosophical, suspenseful
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The Deep Ones (2020)
Plot Summary:
A married couple rents a beachside Airbnb, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover they are in the grip of a mysterious cult and their ancient sea god.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic