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Plot Summary:
Bunka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched a cursed video and her younger sister also did the same out of curiosity.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Horror Stories III (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three horror stories, with each set in the past, present and future.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fantasy
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The Maltese Bippy (1969)
Plot Summary:
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, psychotronic, spoof, parody
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Followers (2021)
Plot Summary:
A struggling social media influencer discovers the house he shares is haunted. The ghost brings him and his friends fame and fortune, but with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, semi serious, demonic, dark comedy
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Too Much (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of friends. But when the day comes for Suzie to return home she finds she's not allowed to take TM with her, so they run away together. However, they must watch out for a rival inventor of Tetsuro's is looking for them so that he can examine TM's programming. Will TM and Suzie manage to escape from his clutches and prove that love conquers all?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018)
Plot Summary:
Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school. While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin’s family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: horror comedy
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Hunger of the Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
In year 20xx, the world was plagued with zombies. Human race was on a verge of extinction and clock was ticking for those who were still alive. When a young male protagonist, Toshiyuki (Ryouta MURAI) was running alone from a horde, he comes across a safe house. The place seemed like a paradise, with endless food supplies and other humans for a company. However, to Toshiyuki's horror, he soon realized that the real nature of the place was to breed humans so zombies won't starve to death! Toshiyuki was paired up with a girl named Mitsue (Nagisa ODAJIMA). Although things are very awkward between them, Toshiyuki is aware that he is slowly falling in love with her. Is this the last sanctuary or sugar-coated hell? As emotions and speculations entwine, the "Human Farm" is facing a bloody fate. The most pleasurable way to survive in the Zombie-filled apocalypse!.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, humorous, suspense, splatter, exciting, asian horror
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Ring: Kanzenban (1995)
Plot Summary:
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time? Written by Jean-Marc Rocher.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Diagnosis: Death (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial.They soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause hallucinations. Or is the clinic really haunted? Struggling with their senses, they must team up to unravel a spooky mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, scary, light, funny, offbeat
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The 16th Episode (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three YouTubers struggling to get more views on their adventure channel, travel to the mythical city of Casablanca, unaware that it hides a terrifying secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, cyber, mystical
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Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspense, dark, disturbing, stylized, controversial, dark fantasy
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The Chanting Revisited (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids agree to explore an abandon house in order to win a reality show contest, which requires them to prove that the stories of the evil Kuntilanak are real. They soon discover that the ghost is very much real when it appears from an old mirror and starts haunting them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at first, but when one of her female students dies after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada's intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, computer animated
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One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
Plot Summary:
Emiri, a timid high school girl, is bullied mercilessly by her classmates, but when her friend, Asuka, stands up for her, Asuka becomes the target of the bullying instead. Emiri, not wanting to be bullied again, avoids Asuka. Worn down, Asuka attempts to commit suicide, but is saved by the school janitor and remains in a comatose state in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, slasher, psychotronic, scary
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, spooky, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, asian horror
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The Complex (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. ¶ Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, enigmatic, mind bending
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Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish they catch – and wolfs it down alive, in the hope that it’ll help keep her skinny! Soon after, and not so unexpectedly in situations like this, zombies show up and begin to complicate things further. After they’re attached by a crowd of poop-covered undead who emerge from an outhouse toilet, the group seeks refuge at the home of strange Dr. Tanaka and his daughter Sachi. But unbeknownst to them, Tanaka has been conducting experiments on the parasites—and the zombies!—and has another fate in mind for the five strangers from the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, suspenseful, splatter, absurd, horror comedy, light, bloody, disgusting, offbeat
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Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
This Japan production spins-off the story of the first Paranormal Activity film by having the ghost from the first film follow a student back to her homeland after a visit to San Diego where she is tragically injured during a car accident. Back home in Japan, she is cared for by her brother, Koichi, who begins to suspect that something is amiss when his sister's wheelchair begins to move on its own. From there, the picture takes on the usual candid cam shocks of the series. Tokyo Night is notable for being an official part of the franchise (it was released in Japan two days before Paranormal Activity 2's release in the States), even though the U.S. has yet to see an official release.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, saga, creepy
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Hubie Halloween (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hubie Dubois who, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, spooky, captivating, entertaining, psychological, suspense, splatter, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Followers (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couple who document their whole life on social media decide to go on a camping trip and share their every move with their followers. What they don t know is that someone is going to prove how easy it is to stalk someone in the digital age. Arriving at the camp site, their followers are close by and are ready to go to extreme and deadly lengths to prove their point.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Reincarnation (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, spooky, surprise ending, mind bending, dark, slasher
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One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, slasher, surprise ending, detective
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, cult horror, spooky
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One Missed Call (2003)
Plot Summary:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark fantasy, creepy, frightening, slasher
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Ring (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy, suspense, psychological, twist ending, intense
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Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
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Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ajin is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises he is a type of immortal known as Ajin (demi-human). Hunted by humans, Ajin is eventually found by the government and used as a subject in cruel experiments. He finds fellow demi-humans along the way as he escapes and goes on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic, exciting, suspense, intense, epic, manga
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Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, splatter, art house, tense, serious
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Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Plot Summary:
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy, bleak
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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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Housebound (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, disturbing, psychological, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, creepy