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Plot Summary:
Isaac and his pregnant wife visit a remote Norwegian village to claim an unexpected inheritance. The couple finds themselves caught in a nightmare when they encounter a sinister cult that worships a sea-dwelling deity.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, lovecraft, enigmatic, captivating, mysterious, suspenseful
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Estranged (2015)
Plot Summary:
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, dark, psychological thriller
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Z (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, disturbing, bleak, tense, scary, suspenseful, splatter, spooky, exciting
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Ghosts of the Ozarks (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Block Island Sound (2020)
Plot Summary:
What’s controlling the town on Block Island? There’s a force lurking off the coast and the wildlife and people are all behaving strangely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, lovecraft, weird
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The Ex (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of how social networks and instant messengers are changing the life of a modern person. It has been several years since a 16-year-old teenager posted a photo of his girlfriend in the general chat, hoping to boast to friends. Now he has a happy adult life: work, friends, fiance Katya, who is about to become his wife. But the Internet makes you remember teenage love, after which a chain of inexplicable mystical events occurs with the future wife of a young man. The girl receives mysterious messages from her fiance's past. Because of them, her life turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, spooky
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The Privilege (2022)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse, tense, mystical, enigmatic
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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The Call (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, dark, splatter
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House of the Disappeared (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, dark, disturbing, mumblecore, horror comedy, sinister
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Octane (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker (Bijou Phillips), their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to find her daughter, Senga learns that Nat has been drawn into an evil cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, controversial, hood, offbeat
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The Similars (2015)
Plot Summary:
A science fiction thriller that takes place in 1968's Mexico and deals with identity in a metaphorical way, as the plot involves a mysterious condition that makes all persons locked inside a bus station on a rainy night to adopt the same face and features.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, mind bending, clever, psychedelic
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After She Wakes (2019)
Plot Summary:
After tragic death of her baby son, a narcoleptic mother with young daughter suffers from terrifying sleep disruptions as they try to deal with ongoing pain and grief. They begin experiencing different episodes of parasomnia including night terrors and sleep paralysis, leaving them unable to move and only able to witness horrific visions. These nightmares become too disturbing as they create a rift in their own realities causing the mother to believe someone or something is watching her sleep every night. Soon the terrifying visions from their dreams begin to manifest into a sinister reality, leaving the mother vulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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Evil Eye (2020)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly perfect romance turns dark when a mother becomes convinced her daughter’s new boyfriend has a sinister connection to her own past.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark
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Don't Knock Twice (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, mystical, suspense, spooky, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, tense, rough, disturbing
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Roseville (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the early autumn of 1985 the police are seeing the consequences of a shocking and mysterious incident that took place in an isolated mountain hut in the Balkan Mountains. The film "Roseville " is artistic interpretations inspired by eyewitness accounts and clues found within the cabin.Vasil ( Kalin Vratchanski ) and Nadia ( Lydia Indjova ) are a young couple who arrive on holiday in "Roseville". There they meet the keeper George ( Plamen Manassiev ) and his best friend Dora ( Elena Petrova ). Later joining the gang is Stephen Court ( David Chokachi ) - an old associate of George. The presence of Vasil unlocked " storm " of unexplained events that will test the sanity of all. Everyone faces the the horror of their own fears and the invisible force that wants to control them, lurking in the dark and quietly knocks on the door to their minds.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, mysterious
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Aftermath (2021)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal to move into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the house's troubled history.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, scary, psychological thriller
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The Banishing (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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Dark Harbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ivanna (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ambar & Dika have just begun with a new chapter of life when years-old grudge of a malicious entity unfolds before their eyes. With a gift she unwillingly has, Ambar is now forced to finish the vengeance of the entity, a headless Dutch spirit, Ivanna.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Wicker Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, scary, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, surreal
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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: satanic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, horror musical, scary, tense, mind bending
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The Appearing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
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V/H/S/94 (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious VHS tape leads a police S.W.A.T. team to the discovery of a sinister cult whose collection of pre-recorded material reveals a nightmarish conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, enigmatic, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, mockumentary, psychological, slasher
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Sinister (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, twist ending, rough, dark, creepy, sinister
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Plot Summary:
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, bad ending, suspenseful, spooky, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy