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Plot Summary:
The story of a girl who is trapped in a generational curse, which does not allow her love & marriage and her lover who vows to conquer this curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, scary, exciting, serious
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Exquisite Corpse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A medical student (Steve Sandvoss) is working on a research project and discovers that he is able to reanimate recently-deceased mice. He takes a break from his work to go on a trip with three friends. He admits to his friend Sophia (Nicole Vicius) that he loves her – but shortly after this she falls into a nearby lake and drowns. Using the methods from his research project he is able to revive her, but the process requires that he extract the hormone Oxytocin from a recently-dead corpse. He murders two women, and attempts to murder a third, in the process of keeping Sophia alive. His actions arouse the suspicion of his friends and the campus police. In a twist at the end of the film, Sophia remembers the circumstances of her death, which changes the audience’s perceptions of the actions of one of the main characters in the story.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, dark, independent film, modern day adaptation
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3G - A Killer Connection (2013)
Plot Summary:
3G is the nightmarish story of Sam Arora and Sheena, a couple, who become victims of a series of events when Sam buys a 3G enabled second hand phone in Fiji islands while on a holiday. One night they receive a Phantom Call which changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic
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Penumbra (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, captivating, surreal, horror comedy, twisted, serious
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Left in Darkness (2006)
Plot Summary:
Celia (Monica Keena, Freddy vs. Jason) has had a rough life, with a mother who died in childbirth and a father who disappeared. Unfortunately for Celia, death is not any easier than life. When she is drugged and raped at a frat party, Celia dies from an overdose, and must battle the terrible Soul Eaters who roam the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing, suspense, light
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Respire (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one's body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930's, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes it's contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary
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The Unleashed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. Lindsay, a childhood friend of Madisons with an adventurous nature, hears of Madison's arrival and has every intention of reconnecting a friendship once had. Bizarre and unexplainable events occur within the house after old friends come together and dabble with the infamous Ouija board. Lindsay, being all too curious of the board and its undeniable power, gives into the persuasion of an unknown entity and allows it to possess her. Madison must overpower her deepest fears and find a way to release Lindsay and abolish the presence that haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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Raaz 3: The Third Dimension (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an ingénue's sudden popularity threatens to shove her out of the spotlight, a movie star uses black magic in an attempt to derail her career.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, entertaining, supernatural thriller
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100 Days (1991)
Plot Summary:
Devi is gifted with Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). Her gift comes to light one day while playing tennis with her friend, Sudha, when she has a vision of her sister, Rama, being shot to death by a man in a black raincoat. She telephones Rama, finds she is safe and is relieved. Shortly thereafter Rama disappears, the police are notified, but are unable to find any trace of her. Devi then meets multi-millionaire, Ram Kumar, both fall in love and get married. She moves into his once abandoned and legally disputed bungalow, and that's when she starts having visions again. These visions lead her to a wall that is loosely plastered.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, psychological thriller, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Secret (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sanjana and Aditya decide to give their marriage one last chance. They plan a holiday in Ooty, but they don't know that a strange figure is waiting for them to come.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, captivating, horror musical
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Haunted - 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Realtor encounters two ghostly entities while attempting to sell a mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, touching, scary, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Plot Summary:
After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dracula's Guest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Bram Stoker's short stories, Dracula's Guest follows the story of two young lovers, Bram and Elizabeth, who are forced by her father, the Admiral Murray, to take a one year probation from their relationship in order to determine whether their love is true. Meanwhile, the Count Dracula is in London searching for a new home and coincidentally, or not, comes across young Elizabeth at the train station after she's run away from home and her father's overbearing ways. Dracula, though, proceeds to kidnap her and take Elizabeth to his castle where he waits for her father's arrival to settle an ancient dispute. Meanwhile, Bram' friend Malcolm sets out to inform Bram of Elizabeth' kidnapping but he soon falls to Dracula's evil ways. And, upon finding his best friend dead Bram sets out across Europe to rescue his true love.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, emotional, suspenseful, suspense, serious, saga, independent film
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Jessie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in an abandoned house, the film follows a team of professional ghost hunters trying to conduct a paranormal investigation to unveil the mystery of two sisters, Jessie and Amy, where Amy shows unusual mental and physical behaviour.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
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Ghost (2003)
Plot Summary:
Manjeet Khosla lives with her widowed mom in Bombay, India. She gets married, gives birth to a son, and separates from her spouse. She goes to live on the 12th floor of an apartment building. Thereafter, she has an affair with Sanjay Thakkar, who is the son of the building Secretary. Shortly thereafter, she and her son fall down from their balcony and die. The building watchman testifies that Manjeet was depressed and suicidal.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, mind bending, scary
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London Voodoo (2004)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family is tearing apart and that his wife's behavior becomes more violent and erratic, he accepts that to save the woman he married he must take a leap of faith. London Voodoo is one of the few films about voodoo to show the belief system in a positive light. Here, it's "work" that's evil. The film shows multicultural voodoo followers in a contemporary urban setting (London). As research for the script, the filmmakers travelled to Cuba, Miami and New Orleans to experience voodoo first hand.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychotronic
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Purgatory (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman must survive the night after she welcomes a neighbor's child into her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Unknown (2009)
Plot Summary:
A film unit goes for a shoot deep into a forestThey settle at a place with bare minimal facilities run by a strange and quirky man called Setu.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, scary
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Plot Summary:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
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Find Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, independent film
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Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, frightening, scary, suspenseful, independent film
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Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Plot Summary:
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. Walking on a deserted beach he finds a ring with a Latin inscription,which translates as Who Is This Who Is Coming. He takes the ring back to the hotel but at night he hears loud banging on his door,even though he is the sole guest,as well as seeing a white-clad apparition on the beach.He is seemingly the victim of ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, christmas horror, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, dark, scary
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Isabelle (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending
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Raavan (2010)
Plot Summary:
This thrilling, allegorical drama follows the intricately interwoven lives of three people, delving into concepts of good and evil, and complex emotions. Ragini re-locates to distant Lal Matti along with her Superintendent of Police husband, Dev Pratap Sharma, in order to enable him to apprehend a bandit, Beera Munda. Shortly thereafter her life is turned upside down when she is abducted by Beera and held captive. It is during this captivity that she is forced to experience myriad complex emotions, with her life in danger of ending within 14 hours. However, she also attempts to the real reason behind her abduction. What will she discover? How will justice be served? Will Ragini's life be spared, and if so, will she be happy to return to the safety of her husband's embrace?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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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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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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Immortally Yours (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coven of Sexy, modern Day vampires ravage the American Midwest with the thirst for blood, while a romantic twist puts the vampires at odds among themselves and with the murderous Illuminati that seek to gain their immortality.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful