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Plot Summary:
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense, demonic
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Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki household who tells her about what happened to her sister. Mai will now uncover the dark secrets of Ju-on and will try to end the curse once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, enigmatic
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Enter the Wild (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of letting go of the past.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Vampire Clay (2017)
Plot Summary:
Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, weird, asian horror
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It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To (2007)
Plot Summary:
Some 70 years after Jacob Burkitt snapped and killed his entire family, thrill-seeking teens crash the allegedly haunted Burkitt Manor to give their friend Sara (Adrienne Fischer) a spooky surprise for her 18th birthday. But as the night drags on -- and her friends start dying off, one by one -- Sara begins to realize that an unspeakable evil is throwing her a killer party. Alicia Kenney and Oliver Lucach co-star.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
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Haunted (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the beautiful winter landscape of Norway, Haunted follows Catherine as she travels back to her old family estate after her father's death. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to confront her family's mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, disturbing
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The Presence (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to film paranormal activity, three friends break into an abandoned castle, where an evil presence soon hounds them into terror and madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Pet Peeve (2013)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle accident in the city will be the precursor to a series of bizarre phenomena being revealed consecutively. Meanwhile, a girl named Yoko possesses a second sight which allows her to see strange things invisible to others.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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They Reach (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, awful
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Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019)
Plot Summary:
Saki, Anju, Chiaki, Ami, and Kaya reunite for the first time in years. The five of them excitedly decide to go Toshimaen Amusement Park, a place that was very important to them when they were younger. None of them know that they're about to enter a nightmare….
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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The Unquiet (2008)
Plot Summary:
Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, both with differing opinions about the supernatural, stumble across some scary revelations about the facility's violent and abusive history.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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9 Ways to Hell (2022)
Plot Summary:
A multi-award winning Horror Compilation inspired by Dante's Inferno. 9 diverse filmmakers deliver a twisted, micro-budget mix of blood and violence, comedy and carnage, demonic creatures and real world terrors, social commentary and WTF madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic, anthology, independent film, spooky
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Unearth (2020)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, wild
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VooDoo (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn't as easy as she hoped.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Windmill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer, an Australian girl on the run from her past, turns up in Amsterdam and, in a desperate attempt to blend in, joins a coach-load of tourists on a tour of Holland's old windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where a devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, tense, spooky, psychological, bloody, mysterious, demonic
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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Inhuman Kiss (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a far-away village, lived an innocent teenage girl, "Sai" who later discovered herself inheriting the curse of "Krasue". At night, her head would detach from her body and hunts for flesh and blood. Villagers are terrified by the deaths of their livestocks and that is when the Krasue hunt begins. "Jerd" a friend joined the hunt with an unknown reason while "Noi", the childhood friend who had just came back to the village decided to stand beside Sai despite knowing the horrifying truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01 - Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)
Plot Summary:
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama Chika) and cameraman Tashiro (Shiraishi) work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary
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Bats (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following a nuclear power plant meltdown, a nearby village known as Nosferatu Village, became radiated, and subsequently abandoned for more than a decade. The year is 1984, and the public are now permitted to return, and a small group come back to their family home to discover a radiated bat living in their attic. The family must survive the night to escape, but the monster has other plans as they soon begin to find themselves infected with a deadly plague that will kill them if the beast doesn't. Waiting for sun to rise, they must figure a way to survive the night, battling against the creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Cove Road (2012)
Plot Summary:
While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Nun's Curse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, intense, weird
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Last of the Grads (2021)
Plot Summary:
A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary “Coast to Coast Killer”.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Forsaken Pages (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Kassem and Sohail Baker deal with vampires, werewolves and other supernatural forces, while trying to cope with the past.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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The Dawn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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The Shed (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, dark, natural horror, weird
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The Black Cat (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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The Grudge (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, harsh, demonic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, detective, esoteric, non-linear
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
Plot Summary:
An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, terrifying
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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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Shrill Cries of Summer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, enigmatic, tense, captivating, suspenseful, manga