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Plot Summary:
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by Zsa Zsa. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to get the troubled girl to lead them to Zsa Zsa's missing diamond necklace.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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The Manor (2018)
Plot Summary:
"The Manor," is the macabre tale of mental patient, Amy Hunter and the horrific events that follow her release from Psychiatrist, Dr. Tryvniak . Amy's mother, Jane feels it best to immerse her daughter in the warm, family atmosphere of Anders Manor, inviting Amy's long lost family to join them at the manor. The Manor, however, has deeper plans for the Hunter Family, as gatecrashers and cultists arrive as the nefarious and ancient demonic force, goes to work, in short order, to sew madness and reap blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Playroom (1990)
Plot Summary:
An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending, lovecraft, cult film
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A Taste of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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When Michael Calls (1972)
Plot Summary:
Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her nephew Michael - but Michael died 15 years ago! In these calls he scolds on acquaintances, who then die in suspicious accidents. Soon Helen has to fear to be the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychotronic, suspense, crime thriller, disgusting
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The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
Plot Summary:
Relatives (Helen Waren, Margot Hartman) die as they feared and the maid loses her head soon after a millionaire (Roy Scheider) is buried alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic
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The Ice House (1969)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer who works in an ice house murders women, then brings their bodies back to the ice house and stores them there. He also murders his brother, who is a cop, and takes his place in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Midnight's Child (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kate and her artist husband are busy working parents. Everything seems to be going fine, going about their daily lives. Then, Anna, the Swedish nanny that Kate hired to care for their daughter, comes into their lives. She tells Christina odd stories, and dazzles her with gifts and her strange picture book. Kate is having awful visions, her husband is acting weird, and her daughter is slowly drawing away from her. Her investigation of Anna only leads to a bizzare Satanic plot. Is there anyone she can trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, tension, suspense, iconic
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How Awful About Allan (1970)
Plot Summary:
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, spooky, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Feral (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this terrifying tale, a young couple goes on a desperate search for their daughter who's disappeared without a trace into the nearby woods -- the same woods that have recently claimed and released the mutilated bodies of several animals. Their frantic hunt leads them to a horrific creature, and their attempt to shoot it accidentally leaves their neighbor dead. As the body count rises, the couple's nightmare reaches a shocking conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, wild
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Fortune Cookie (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cryptic fortune cookie messages become death omens for a group of friends. Director: Rob Pallatina.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)
Plot Summary:
A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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19 Doors (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a producer suggests that screenwriter Grace Mitchel pen a horror story set in an old hotel, the lond-abandoned Lyndora seems theperfect inspiration. The turn-of-the-century hotel is known for its rough and seedy past - the doors to its rooms sealed 50 years ago following a series of gruesome murders - and local lore says it's haunted. Despite the reservations of family and friends, an undaunted Grace takes up residence in the eerie inn to immerse herself in writing ... But now that the doors are open, the secrets of the past begin to emerge. As disturbing, but seemingly explicable, events begin to escalate, Grace struggles to define reality from insanity and begins a descent into darkness from which some will never return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, scary, suspense
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Hex (2018)
Plot Summary:
A couple's holiday romance is thrown into chaos as they are afflicted by a malicious force.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, scenic, colorful, psychological thriller, demonic, psychotronic, colourful
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S.I.C.K. Serial Insane Clown Killer (2003)
Plot Summary:
A couple of friends are chased by a killer clown in the woods during a weekend.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, ridiculous
Similar in 76%
Death Cast (2022)
Plot Summary:
Six young and hopeful actors land roles in an experimental horror film shooting on a remote location. Their performances will be captured without any crew present in a single, uninterrupted take by cameras and drones positioned around the set. As the day progresses, the line between the film they are shooting and actual terror is blurred as they find themselves in a real life-or-death situation.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense
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School of Horror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring filmmaker Rocky Horror (Robert Baldassari) devises a dangerous plan to create a surefire terror hit when he lures several film school classmates to a haunted tavern, hoping to capture footage of them being attacked by a legendary monster. But when the creature finally appears, Rocky and his fellow students realize that the blood and corpses are real, not special effects, and that the action may not stop when the director yells "cut.".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film
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The Doll (2016)
Plot Summary:
Anya and Daniel just moved to their new house in Bandung. Daniel brings home a doll from his workplace. Anya, who is a dollmaker, welcomes the doll happily to their house. They later learned that the doll belonged to a little girl named Uci, who died when she and her family were brutally murdered in a robbery. Strange things begin to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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St. Agatha (2018)
Plot Summary:
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing, spooky, odd
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Scream of Fear (1961)
Plot Summary:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic
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Trilogy of Terror II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, psychological, controversial, dark fairy tale, scary, mind bending, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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Wake Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A brutal serial killer is finally gunned down in the middle of carrying out one last heinous act of bloody murder. In the maniac’s possession, a box of Guatemalan talismans, which mistakenly end up being sold as charm jewelry in Chloe’s Collectables thrift shop. Soon those who bought the Worry Dolls begin to act strangely out of character and cause another rash of senseless slaughter. An ancient curse is consuming the city and pits a hardened detective against the clock to save his 8 year-old daughter’s life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychotronic, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, spooky
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The Terrible Two (2018)
Plot Summary:
Albert and Rose Poe bought their dream house seven years ago in Greenfield, NC. They had no idea of the unspeakable horrors that took place in the house before they moved in. If they had known, then their children, Addi and Jade would still be alive. Instead the Poes now find themselves imprisoned in the house they thought was their safe place, and battling their two daughters for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Devil's Candy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, disturbing, creepy, rough, bleak, suspenseful, post-horror, psychological, atmospheric
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The Terror (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes him to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. How can he save the mysterious girl?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, serious, cult classic, classic horror, scary, stylized
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Blood Craft (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters who suffered abuse as children at the hands of their sadistic father decide, after his death, to use witchcraft to bring his spirit back to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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Rift (2011)
Plot Summary:
Several college students are brutally murdered in a small college town an the killer is still on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, intense, creepy, teen horror, twist ending