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Plot Summary:
Based on the screenplay by Mario Von Czapiewski (Cannibal Diner), Rootwood follows two students who host "The Spooky Hour," a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by Hollywood film producer Laura Benott to shoot a horror documentary about the curse of The Wooden Devil, they smell their chance to become famous. Together, with their friend Erin, they enter Rootwood Forest and investigate the area to find out the truth about The Wooden Devil and his victims. Elissa Dowling (Tales of Halloween), Tyler Gallant (Alpha Wolf), Sarah French (Ouija House), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Brandon Rhea (Ultimate Justice) and Tiffani Fest (Serena Waits) star in a film that combines the aesthetics of ghost films and the intensity of monster movies to create a unique horror experience with surprising twists and turns.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, twisted
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Cannibal Diner (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, rough, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Blind (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. When a masked stranger named Pretty Boy shows up, Faye will realize that she isn't as alone as she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, sad, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, crying
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Amityville: Mt Misery Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Buzi are ghosts' enthusiasts fascinated by the legend of the scariest road in America, Mt. Misery Road. The couple continues their adventure to the woods until they realize they got into the whirlpool of paranormal activities.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, psychotronic, spooky, low-budget
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Finding Randy (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an old friend's return home is disrupted by his sudden disappearance, what starts as a welcome home film becomes an unsettling search.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, twisted
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The Sadist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dead in the Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Nereus is a fifty-year-old Ice Breaker, salvaged by an idealistic crew on a mission to catch illegal fisherman. On chase, the crew find themselves well off-course and bearing down on a body mysteriously floating in the middle of the Devil’s Sea. Superstitious or not, the team soon discovers they’ve rescued a deadly creature feeding on the lifeless body. Their new mission—kill or be killed and preferably before they hit land.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cut! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is as it seems as an ex-con and aspirant filmmaker set out to manufacture a horror film by scaring real people; however, when it goes too far and someone actually dies, the pair decide that killing for real on film is the way to make a truly terrifying movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, twisted, spooky
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Don't Go to the Reunion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Scott Rantzen (Brady Simenson) is a horror movie loving misfit who is teased by the popular students in school. When a date with the very popular and very beautiful Erica Carpenter (Stephanie Leigh Rose) backfires, he feels as though his life is ruined. Ten years later, the gang reunite for their class reunion. Little do they know that someone is waiting for them and ready to see that they pay for what they did. Is Scott back for revenge and will the old gang survive to tell the tale? It'll be more gore for Class of 04.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film, grindhouse
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Monsters in the Woods (2012)
Plot Summary:
A micro-budget movie crew treks into the wilderness to shoot horror scenes for their unsellable indie-drama. They soon find themselves in the midst of their own real horror movie, as they are hunted by a large group of creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, splatter, meta, weird
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Bloody Slumber Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
After Kelly broke up with Rick, her abusive boyfriend, her friends had a slumber party to cheer her up. As they are telling horror stories, there is a killer in the house coming for them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological
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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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Cryptid (2022)
Plot Summary:
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Rake (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, christmas horror, psychological horror
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, fake documentary
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Hunting the Legend (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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Hollow (2011)
Plot Summary:
An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, mockumentary, spooky, psychological, serious
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Witches in the Woods (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they have become stranded in Stoughton Valley, home of some Witch Trials even more horrendous than Salem, and are being hunted by a supernatural creature determined to keep them there.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, dark, slasher, splatter, scary
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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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Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
Similar in 79%
Willow Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, cult classic, spooky, tense
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The Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, dark, suspenseful, weird
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Devil Below (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, weird
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
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Murder In The Woods (2021)
Plot Summary:
Soon after arriving to a mysterious cabin in the woods, a group of teens discover the dark secret it holds, which forces them to fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror, teen horror
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Blair Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark, suspense, tense, stylized, intense, demonic, spooky, slasher