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Plot Summary:
Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, bleak, philosophical, mind bending, retro, road movie, ambiguous ending, minimal cast, weird
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Lung (2016)
Plot Summary:
A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, dark, disturbing
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Dreamcatcher (2021)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, talky, scary, surprise ending, bleak, brutal
Similar in 80%
Held (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, brutal, bleak, unusual plot structure
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Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing
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Hideout (2021)
Plot Summary:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological
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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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Capps Crossing (2017)
Plot Summary:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Return (2005)
Plot Summary:
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, enigmatic, serious, tense, grindhouse, spectacular, gloomy
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Home Sweet Home (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, minimal cast
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Malevolence (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, bloody, creepy, scary, realistic
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Fender Bender (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to — a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, dark drama, hispanic, retro, crying
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In Fear (2013)
Plot Summary:
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, realistic, intense, minimal cast, psychological, psychological thriller, mind bending
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Psycho II (1983)
Plot Summary:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" demands and begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, bloody, splatter, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Carl (2012)
Plot Summary:
A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, independent film, sinister, ambiguous ending
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
Plot Summary:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, neo noir, detective, rough, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, satanic, religious horror
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Psycho (1998)
Plot Summary:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister and a private investigator. They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious "mother" at the Bates Motel.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak, cult classic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mystical, brutal
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The Prowler (1981)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, gothic horror
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The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of winter, Kat and Rose, two very different girls, find themselves spending winter break at their prestigious prep school. What they don't know is that Kat is being stalked by an evil entity, and their lives are about to change forever. Meanwhile, Joan, a young, troubled woman, makes her way across a frozen landscape towards the school. But why?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, demonic, enigmatic, psychological horror, creepy, bleak, psychological thriller, gothic, dark
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The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, stylized, experimental, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, postmodern, dark
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The Den (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber, mockumentary, creepy, rough, psychological
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The Void (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, lovecraft, creepy, suspense, surreal, stylized, satanic, scary, psychological, atmospheric
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot Summary:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, brutal, splatter
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Urban Legend (1998)
Plot Summary:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, teen, scary, splatter, cult classic, psychological thriller
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough
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Saw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, splatter
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Identity (2003)
Plot Summary:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, twisted, tricky, serious
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, rough, slasher, scary, psychological, controversial, creepy, suspense, stylized
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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Plot Summary:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, scary, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, splatter, disturbing, tense
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Barbarian (2022)
Plot Summary:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but soon discovers that there is much more to be afraid of in the house than the other guest.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, disturbing, spooky, psychological, rough, enigmatic, bleak, serious