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Plot Summary:
As a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The 13th Sign (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is drawn back to the village where her father went on a killing spree fifteen years earlier to the day of this solar eclipse. At first, it seems disturbingly quiet. Then all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When an innocent teen discovers that she is being stalked by her evil stepsister, the mirror's demonic power is again unleashed. As the mirror gains strength from the blood of the damned, the ultimate battle between good and evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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One Minute Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on a work by Edgar Alan Poe. A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Also known as The Oval Portrait.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror
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Surrogate (2022)
Plot Summary:
A ghost horror about single mother and nurse Natalie who falls mysteriously ill and struggles to stop her family from being destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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White Lady (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pearl,a simple and smart girl who just arrived in the city to attend college. For reasons she cannot explain and understand, Pearl is haunted by the ghost of a white lady said to be frequenting the school grounds.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Jennifer (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Insight of Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers go to party at summer cottage and are killed off by vengeful soul.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, slasher
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Sex Beyond the Grave (1984)
Plot Summary:
In order to pay off a massive debt, a gambling addict sells his ancestral home to a young couple, who soon discover that the building is haunted by the vengeful spirits of a murdered family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Haunted by Her Past (1987)
Plot Summary:
The evil spirit of one of her ancestors possesses a young woman who inadvertently comes into possession of a haunted mirror.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Legend Trip (2006)
Plot Summary:
A local legend turns into a horrifying reality for a group of young grad students seeking to debunk a Wisconsin haunted house.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Forgotten (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a father and son are forced to squat in an empty London council estate scheduled for demolition, 14-year-old Tommy starts to hear strange noises coming from the boarded-up flat next door… While Tommy struggles to reconnect with his deteriorating father, and glean where his mum might have gone, introverted Tommy makes an unlikely new friend in ballsy, street-smart Carmen. She is everything he isn't. And together they start to unravel the chilling truth behind the sounds coming through Tommy's bedroom wall and the bizarre things that Tommy has started seeing. Eventually Tommy & Carmen break in and find the next door flat empty. But the hauntings only escalate and when Mark is injured and taken into hospital, Tommy finds himself alone on the estate. He realises he’s in way over his head. What does the malign force want…? The truth is more terrifying than Tommy could imagine. From the producer of THE BORDERLANDS, a tensely plotted, superbly acted, gritty urban supernatural horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, crying
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The Haunted Castle (1969)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745, and focuses on a noble Lord Nabeshima Tango-no-kami (note the name). He rides out one day and sees a parasol on the distance. His friend, the blind Mataichirou, is having tea served by his sister Sayo. Nabeshima joins them and comments on her beauty.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)
Plot Summary:
A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, terrifying, independent film
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Death by Invitation (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Bonesetter Returns (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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Cathy's Curse (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jon Porter returns to his hometown after the sudden and bizarre death of his mother. He hopes to leave as soon as the funeral is over but it's too late. The sinister forces that caused his sister's brutal murder 30 years ago are back. Jon knows the nightmare can't continue. He must stand up to his fear and exorcise the demons who have risen again to take posession of his beautiful teenage daughter - body and soul.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, dark, homoerotic, independent film
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The Child (1977)
Plot Summary:
A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spooky, terrifying, independent film, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, psychotronic
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Dark Harvest II: The Maize (2004)
Plot Summary:
A father's psychic abilities are put to the test when his two daughters are trapped inside of a corn maze haunted by the spirits of two young girls who disappeared a year earlier.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, independent film
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A Dead Calling (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young television reporter (or "investigative journalist") is attacked in her home, leading to her boyfriend being murdered. Six months later she returns to work in a smaller town, and stumbles across a house full of ghosts trying to call out to her. What is the secret of this house and how is she connected to it?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, dark, serious
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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Plot Summary:
When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending
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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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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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Video Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Amy receives a haunted VHS tape containing weird films from a figure stalking her she realizes she is not alone and must find other victims who are being haunted to try and work out who is trying to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Behind You (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, suspense, dark, suspenseful
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic