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Plot Summary:
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, twisted, detective
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Freakdog (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, suspense, twisted, slasher, interesting
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The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological, apocalyptic, surprise ending, interesting
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Acceptable Risk (2001)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious medical researcher discovers a mold that he believes could be the foundation of a miracle cure for degenerative disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mystical, scary, mind bending, cult film
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The Poker Club (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Perkins' 14 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ronald Perkins builds an army of 14 people brainwashed through cult-like methods to protect him from his parents' killers. When Perkins is imprisoned, the police unwittingly unleash his followers on a small town and they've only got one thing on their mind: "Kill for Mr. Perkins.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, weird, awful
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Death Ride (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, scary, tense, disturbing, serious
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The Cottage (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, scary, realistic
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Laid to Rest (2009)
Plot Summary:
A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hellbent on finishing what he started.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, bloody, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic
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No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, underground film, detective, perverse
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The Broken (2008)
Plot Summary:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, surreal, scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, heartbreaking
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Playback (2012)
Plot Summary:
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, interesting
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Altered (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
Plot Summary:
When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to her very soul. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Molly is about to discover the truth of just who or what she is destined to become.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense, scary, slasher, scenic
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Unforgettable (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, rough, serious, exciting, psychological thriller, surprise ending, neo noir
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A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
Plot Summary:
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, psychological, disturbing, twisted, melancholic, retro, suspense
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Vinyan (2008)
Plot Summary:
A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission: Impossible) is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, rough, serious, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, powerful, terrifying, twisted
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Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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Flatliners (1990)
Plot Summary:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a star studded cast.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, cult classic, medical horror, creepy, visually stunning
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The Fury (1978)
Plot Summary:
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized, exciting, serious, cult classic, neo noir
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The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Capture Kill Release (2016)
Plot Summary:
A couple plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, mockumentary, scary, psychological thriller, psychotronic, independent film
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Mother's Day (2010)
Plot Summary:
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, rough, serious, splatter, captivating, suspense, depressing
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Feardotcom (2002)
Plot Summary:
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known as feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also stars in this gruesome thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, slasher, neo noir, detective
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Nightwatch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough, neo noir, detective, psychological thriller, surreal
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Anna (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, psychological, twist ending, tense, confusing, surprise ending, psychological thriller, mindfuck
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The Signal (2007)
Plot Summary:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic, atmospheric, rough, slasher, splatter, cerebral
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The Ugly (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological horror, slasher, controversial, mindfuck
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, suspense, psychological, satanic, gothic, dark, creepy
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The Purge (2013)
Plot Summary:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, psychological, twist ending, brutal, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, slasher