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Plot Summary:
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, retro, lovecraft
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Dark Paradox (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a writer's unwitting discovery of the history and secret efforts of a cult in Victoria, Canada that has been engaged in a 60 year effort to open a portal between our world and another, letting in a host of vicious inter-dimensional beings. The city of Victoria was rumored in the 1980's to be the second worldwide 'capital of Satanism' after Geneva, Switzerland. Dark Paradox explores the idea that this myth was not only partially true but also partially inaccurate in suggesting the cult activity was 'Satanic' when in fact it was based on the worship of ancient extraterrestrial 'elder gods' in the vein of HP Lovecraft's fiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, lovecraft, scary, bleak, suspense, independent film, detective
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Driven (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emerson Graham's nights as a cab driver are filled with annoyances and inconveniences, but until tonight, never attacks and disappearances. After picking up a mysterious passenger her evening goes from working a job to performing a quest as they must race against the clock to defeat a force of evil. The meter is running.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, horror comedy
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The Mask (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, gothic horror, lovecraft, bizarre
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The Vault (2001)
Plot Summary:
Housed inside a vault in the basement of an abandoned school lurks an evil that has been locked away for over a hundred years. When a teacher and 5 students visit the school to archive any memorabilia before it's torn down, they mistakenly free the horrific spirit, turning the school into a deadly prison. Now they must face the evil and banish it to the vault once again before it kills them and escapes to destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Glimpse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a curse that now haunts him and only can be broken in one special way. But the more he learns about his former Japanese girlfriends family, the more he learns about his own family ... And one tragedy rarely comes alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense
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Blood Hunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
An elevated genre horror film about a single mother who wakes up in a medical facility to find that everyone is dead and she's nine months pregnant. As she struggles to escape she discovers the facility's secret, they've tampered with the boundaries of death and brought people back to life, but those who've returned, have not returned alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Evil Words (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day, for no apparent reason, a cop kills 11 children. The same day, horror novelist Thomas Roy tries to commit suicide after cutting his fingers. At first glance, nothing seems to link the two events – until Dr. Paul Lacasse, a disillusioned psychiatrist, takes over the case. Prompted by his colleague Jeanne, a fan of Thomas Roy, Dr. Lacasse investigates the writer’s past. Hounded by a gossip columnist, Dr. Lacasse uncovers a series of troubling facts that bolster his convictions about the case. As he tries to reassemble the pieces of the puzzle in order to better treat the famous writer, Dr. Lacasse is dragged further and further into a series of events, with terrifying consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychotronic
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Asian Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a dead Chinese railway worker seeking revenge possesses the body of a lethal assassin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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All the Devils Are Here (2014)
Plot Summary:
Five college students on a backwoods excursion encounter a deadly, nocturnal presence. As horrific events unfold, the group joins forces with a town local and a prison escapee and attempt to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Bahamas
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, dark comedy
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Curandero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, suspense, perverse, psychotronic
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Shatterbrain (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, detective, retro, creepy, gothic, suspense, slasher, splatter, psychological horror, cult horror
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Stickman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of isolation she finally has her demons under control and is released.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, melancholic, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, intense, dark fantasy, weird
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Devil's Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge (2020)
Plot Summary:
A military veteran who returns home, works in law enforcement and she's assigned to a supernatural case that's surrounded by urban myth and legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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They Reach (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, awful
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Ekimmu the Dead Lust (2017)
Plot Summary:
The unassuming town of Briar Creek seems to be keeping a nasty secret... On a cross country trip home a young couple, Mike and Beth make a late night stop in this little town, only to stumble across a mysterious girl lying along the dark roadside, The evil lurking inside of her waiting... planning... plotting... When the two girls find that they are somehow psychically connected strange things begin to happen... It's only a matter of time before the two girls cant control the inevitable. The following days will lead them to question everything, from their own existence to whether or not they have somehow opened a doorway to evil. All of their answers can be found in only the darkest of places. Where the sins of the past become the sins of the future. Lost in a strange town, scared as hell and running low on gas... Darkness sets in as events begin to frantically tumble into the void of... THE DEAD LUST.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, mind bending, independent film, cult film
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I Thought You Were a Nice Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman with a horrible secret is protected by a loving family.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, thrilling, independent film
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Djinn (2013)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emirates. Unknown to the couple, their new luxury apartment block, Al Hamra, was built on the site of an old abandoned fishing village of the same name. Legend has it the village was abandoned after manevolant beings haunted its inhabitants. Unsettled by her new surroundings and the eerie hallways of Al Hamra, Khalid worries his wife is failing to battle her personal demons – but could it be something far more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Necronomicon – The Book of Hell (2018)
Plot Summary:
A librarian founds a copy of the fabled Necronomicon, only unleash hell on earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Queen Crab (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl steals her dad's growth experiment infused grapes and feeds them to a pet crab. Years later, the now gigantic crustacean attacks the town!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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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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Wraith (2022)
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IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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A Taste of Blood (2020)
Plot Summary:
After going off to kill a vampire, a man returns home at the magic hour, between night and day. His family has doubts about whether he's still human or whether he's been bitten by the undead. His teenage daughter is determined to defend him, but their doubts and fears grow as the darkness of the night approaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Singapore
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Ice Demon (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ksyusha barely remembers her father: he went missing when she was a child. Incredibly, he is showing signs of life, despite being in a coma. The man is returned home in this condition. His wife has now remarried. The family is thrown into disarray by the return of the former master of the house – terrifying things are happening in the house, and Ksyusha’s mom starts acting weird… Ksyusha begins to suspect that something supernatural, icy, and lifeless has come home with her father. And now Ksyusha and her stepfather are about to find themselves protecting their family from a demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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A House Is Not a Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben (Webb) and Linda Williams move the family into a dream home in a last ditch effort to save their troubled marriage. Despite their good intentions, they cannot shake the feeling that they are being watched by something. Their unimaginable fears are realized when things inside the house take a supernatural and sinister turn. Ben and his family flee for their lives, but it is too late. The house isn't finished with them, trapping the family in its labyrinth. The Williams must come together as never before to fight for their family, their lives and to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Evil Takes Root (2020)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ouija House (2018)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the house part of its game….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, melancholic, intense, psychotronic
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Bonehill Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young couple become stranded in the woods where they encounter a werewolf and a house of horrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Toll (2020)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger they try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, gay cinema, weird
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The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Plot Summary:
While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing