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Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller. A police profiler who quit after a horrific case is terrorised by the escaped serial killer she sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Amuse Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Captives find themselves at the mercy of a lunatic who dresses like a clown. He does not seem to be aware that his amusement is terrifying to the victims who are forced to participate in his games of degradation. As frightening as his lack of empathy may be, he has an even scarier personality when he gets angry.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Simon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Legend of DarkHorse County (2014)
Plot Summary:
As Jon (Shawn Welling / Michael Biehn) and Joy Ford (Tory Tompkins) move into the small town of DarkHorse, mysterious and supernatural occurrences threaten to tear the town apart. Teenage girl abductions and a chain of serial killings force good-ol'-boy Sheriff McElroy (Lee Majors / Larry Wade Carrell), the town's rugged symbol of justice, to use any means necessary to keep his beloved town from tumbling into chaos, and when Joy's nieces (Olivia 'ChaChi' Gonzales and Presley Bishop) are kidnapped, they must race to find the abductor and in turn come face to face with a monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Primal Shift (2015)
Plot Summary:
A naive and socially repressed June hits the road with her new boyfriend, Max, on their first romantic trip down the coast. When a hitchhiker suddenly winds up dead in their RV, June can't deny the overwhelming thrill and lust for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, road movie
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Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, detective
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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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Evil Never Dies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful
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Del Playa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with a horrific past, Claire Rhodes must confront a stalker turned murderer of her youth in order to win her life - but will her own demons help the killer exact his vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Joker's Wild (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a clown-masked assailant guns down Aurora's Place, the resident theater owner fights to re-open her business.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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A.M.I. (2019)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen year old girl forms a co-dependent relationship with an artificial intelligence on her phone and goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
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Intrusion: Disconnected (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nearly a year after the events of Intrusion the mysterious death of the rose bud killer leaves questions unresolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Eritrea, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, tension, twisted, cult film
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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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Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. Sam Loomis once treated unstoppable killer Michael Myers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Captured (2017)
Plot Summary:
A weekend getaway to shoot a music video turns into a nightmare for a rock'n roll band when they become the crazed obsession of an escaped convict that is purposely targeting the female lead of the band.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Forest (2015)
Plot Summary:
A weekend camping trip turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deep Sleep (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this electrifying giallo, a killer traumatized by the memories of his childhood receives a mysterious envelope pushed underneath his door.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial
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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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Taught in Cold Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police Service Investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, psychotronic
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Final Move (2013)
Plot Summary:
To save his daughter's life and restore his reputation, disgraced ex-detective Nick Mathers must catch the sadistic Grand Master killer before time runs out, and the final piece is taken in the deadly game of chess.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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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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Demons Never Die (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die on by one, Archie realises that they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves. But who's the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, teen horror
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Manhole (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young girl (Kim Sae-Ron) is kidnapped by a serial killer (Jung Kyoung-Ho). The serial killer uses manholes to kidnap and kill his victims. The young girl's older sister (Jung Yu-Mi) tries to save her before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, disturbing
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KILD TV (2016)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a local horror movie showcase, used to broadcasting creepy stories of heinous killers, finds themselves trapped with a real killer among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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After Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring break for seven college students is derailed with one wrong turn. A flat tire on a deserted road leaves them stranded after dark in the company of a menacing drifter who may or may not be trying to help.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Deep Web: Murdershow (2023)
Plot Summary:
A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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Clownface (2019)
Plot Summary:
A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Death Trip (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four friends take a cottage vacation in the dead of winter, seeking refuge from their busy urban lives, if only for one weekend. However, the few residents who remain in the secluded cottage town of Rideau Ferry don’t seem to take kindly to strangers… From the moment they reach their destination, the visitors, a group of twenty-something artist types, are confronted by the ominous gaze of neighbouring cottagers, all of whom have no choice but to tough out the cold winter in this small, rural town. Over the course of their stay, the friends begin to uncover dark details about the inhabitants of the houses around them. After one of the friends is found mutilated on the front porch of a nearby cottage, the friends quickly discover that nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful