Best movies like Sleep No More
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Plot Summary:
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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No 46 (2016)
Plot Summary:
ELISE is a young, fearful woman who escapes her old life to move in with her best friend Miranda across the country following an altercation with a stalker leading to the death of her boyfriend. They find refuge in Malachai's home, a site that saw a serial killer's murder spree several decades earlier. Though not a superstitious person, Elise begins to encounter strange events that begin to test her curiosity, then her mind. Although she holds firm in her resolve not to believe there is a supernatural presence in their home, Elise begins to doubt her sanity, especially when Keith, a murdering stalker from her past has followed her and arrives to save her from an encounter with Owen, a nice guy with a dark secret. Owen and his partner James, a mentally unstable psychic arrive on her doorstep to announce they are there to liberate trapped spirits in the house, only to be hauled away by police. With the threat of Keith's return, the unnatural occurrences in the house and Owen and James'.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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The Dark Sleep (2012)
Plot Summary:
Adaption of H.P Lovecrafts The Dreams in the witchhouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Under The Rainbow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vivi finds herself in a mysterious world and must face an ominous Queen to unlock the secrets of this mystical world, as well as her own existence. Under the Rainbow is a psychedelic dark fantasy/horror adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Dolls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Hellmouth (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gravekeeper is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Visitors (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Daniel is possessed by a strange being it tries to bring back from the other world the rest of its companions in the bodies of Ana, Daniel’s wife, and Sebastian, their six year old son. Ana watches in horror as her family is transformed and sees her own possession, and tries to stop the process that seems to be irreversible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, hispanic
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Tales From The Dark 1 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong horror writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Rope Curse (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to make a viral video by streaming a mysterious rope ritual, a couple falls into a deadly curse instead that turns their lives upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Wicked Within (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst unexplainable events occur. Tension over peculiar circumstances cracks the veneer of cordiality and dark secrets emerge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
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Tales from the Dark Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Witches of Amityville Academy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jessica accepts an invitation to study at the private and exclusive Amityville Academy. After her induction, she realizes that it's a coven of evil witches trying to summon and unleash the demon Botis in order to spread terror throughout the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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Mansion of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire Mason Murphy renovates the haunted Mayhew mansion. He plans a tremendous lunar eclipse viewing party to celebrate his return to his hometown of River Ridge Iowa. At the party, magic runs out of control and the party guests are murdered one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic
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American Horror House (2012)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Leah Smock, the Legend Awakens (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a hollow, deep in the back woods of Kentucky, there is an unassuming grave of a young woman who died at the young age of twenty-two. Folklore tells that a beautiful and intelligent woman with long flowing black hair is buried here on this peaceful spot of the woods. However, folklore also tells of a more sinister secret about this seemly innocent young woman, and the circumstances that surrounds her death as an evil witch named Leah Smock.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Know Fear (2021)
Plot Summary:
After discovering an ancient book of the occult, a family activates a dangerous ritual forcing each of them to communicate with and fight a demonic force in their own unique way: to see it, hear it or speak to it.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Infernum (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ancient literature has referred to the sound of hell as "the wailing and gnashing of teeth." Many people believe that may be the explanation behind a paranormal phenomenon that has been heard around the world. Camille Williams (Suziey Block) believes this haunting sound is responsible for the disappearance of her parents when she was a young girl. Now a grown woman, Camille sets out with her friend James (Clinton Roper Elledge) to hopefully find some answers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Is That You? (2018)
Plot Summary:
When her father goes missing, 13 year old Lili uses a spiritual ritual to find him but she gets it wrong and her life turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Rope Curse 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers. Huo-ge helps Jia-min subdue the spirit when the situation goes out of hand. Huo-ge possesses supernatural powers but lost his will to exorcise demons during a battle with the Thai Demon five years ago. As the wave of suicides continues, the village is thrown into chaos. Another battle is about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, enigmatic
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I Know You're in There (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Haunting of Alice Bowles (2020)
Plot Summary:
When two YouTubers uncover a mysterious grave in an abandoned churchyard, what starts as harmless entertainment soon turns darker when their discovery begins to unwrap a mystery which has lain dormant for over a century.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dark, Deadly & Dreadful (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fun Size Horror Presents "Dark, Deadly & Dreadful", an anthology of short films from Fun Size Horror's community of filmmakers. Each film explores different themes in the horror genre all from the unique perspective of its creator. Featuring work from a diverse group of filmmakers, shorts include submissions to Fun Size Horror, world premiers, and festival winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, horror spoof
Similar in 77%
Echoes of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Encounter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a séance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Seven Hells (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven festival-winning shorts. Seven horrifying and hilarious tales of people trapped in their own special hells. The perfect Halloween movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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When Death Calls (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween, and an elementary school teacher is being stalked by a mysterious caller. Meanwhile, sexy DJ Roxy Richards is making her scariest broadcast yet - but she may not realize how scary things are going to get when an old friend calls in.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology
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Hell Hole (2013)
Plot Summary:
When two of the world's biggest slackers accidentally open the door to hell, they have to figure out a way to close it before hell's monsters destroy the earth, and their babes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dead Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple – Anne and Harold – moves into a new home without knowing it was a site of horrific murders, Anne's loneliness and strange behavior makes their relationship complicated, especially after Anne meets 'Mary', a dark presence from which she can't escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Brimstone Incorporated (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone Incorporated features three ghoulish tales of terror and a wraparound, the latter centering around a law firm that serves as the gateway to Hell. Stories include Mama's Boy, First Date and Skunk Weed,.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic