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Plot Summary:
A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, eighties, low-budget, cult film
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The Clairvoyant (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, independent film, suspense
Similar in 85%
Delusion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of Frank's wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir, neorealism, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Witchboard 2 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman starts receiving messages through a ouija board, claiming to be from the former occupant of her apartment. The former tenant claims she's been murdered, but there's no record of a murder or even her death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Candie's Harem (2015)
Plot Summary:
Candie is a bisexual who has a perfect setup with multiple partners until everyone starts dying around her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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All Light Will End (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror, awful
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The Dead Ones (2019)
Plot Summary:
For four outcast teens, summer detention means being assigned to clean their high school after a horrific incident. But they are not alone; a macabre gang wearing guises of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - Famine, Pestilence, War and Death - has locked them inside and is hunting them through the school's ravaged hallways. As the four students battle to survive, each must confront the supernatural echoes of past traumas they have struggled to forget - and may be condemned to relive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Scream (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Witchboard (1986)
Plot Summary:
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, cult classic, psychological, creepy, suspenseful, terrifying, atmospheric, disturbing, classic horror, queer horror
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Heebie Jeebies (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts them all in one spot making for easy pickings for the slasher.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
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The Slayer (1982)
Plot Summary:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Pay the Ghost (2015)
Plot Summary:
One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son—and, in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, intense, enigmatic, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, retro, demonic, lovecraft
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Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to try and finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, queer horror, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody
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Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
Plot Summary:
It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense, atmospheric, serious, demonic, creepy, teen
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The Dead Center (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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Body Cam (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cops involved with covering up a murder by getting rid of their body cam video footage find themselves haunted by an evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective, perverse
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Dead & Buried (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense, surreal, cult classic, frightening, suspenseful, scary
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April Fool's Day (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, twist ending, scary, suspenseful, humorous, grindhouse, surprise ending, bloody, tense, atmospheric
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The Changeling (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, disturbing, cerebral, cult classic
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Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
Plot Summary:
Forced to travel with her boyfriend to a horror festival, Laine begins to experience disturbing visions associated with the urban legend of The Creeper. As the festival arrives and the blood-soaked entertainment builds to a frenzy, she believes that something unearthly has been summoned… and that she is at the center of it.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, bloody, suspense, meta
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Visions (2015)
Plot Summary:
After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, exciting, bleak, mind bending, brutal, grindhouse
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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, stylized, serious, suspenseful, demonic
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. It eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is the The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, splatter, detective, cult classic, frightening, religious horror
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The Omen (1976)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, psychological, scary, satanic, creepy, atmospheric, dark, suspense, slasher
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We Are Still Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: dark, atmospheric, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, demonic, romantic, retro, psychological
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
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Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, demonic, splatter
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The Ring (2002)
Plot Summary:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy, dark, frightening, twist ending, psychological, disturbing
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Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Plot Summary:
A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad move! Opening a Pandora's Box of unspeakable evil, the pair must flee for their lives -- with a monstrous "shape" in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, atmospheric, bloody, road movie, suspense, creepy