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Plot Summary:
In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychedelic, gothic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, surreal, contemplative, neo noir, independent film
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Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind - returns in this epic steam punk thriller, in which six interwoven tales document the downfall of Dr. Mabuse and his city "Etiopomar".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, epic, neo noir, expressionism, mystic
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Litan (1982)
Plot Summary:
Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, surreal, psychedelic, dark fantasy, art house, weird, cult film
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The Samurai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, detective, grindhouse, dark drama
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13 Weird Stories (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, lovecraft, scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Be Careful What You Wish For (2020)
Plot Summary:
Pamela is an eight-year-old girl who loves horror movies and fairy tales. When his uncle gives her away a doll named "Hellequin" as a birthday gift, a tale of betrayal begins to unfold before her eyes.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, bleak, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tony Watt's Frankenpimp (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romeo Montague is the alias of (the re-animated) Patient Zero, a skilled, mutated android hit-man/pimp/ancient relics collector, that lives in Verona City, N.Y.; a dystopic metropolis filled with extreme horror & sexual deviancy; featuring: a lustful, demonic, man-eating Astro-Queen, a psychotic South American underworld god, human/android sex-slave party-girls, bloodthirsty zombies, vengeful deities and alien hooker vampire junkies/go-go girls. The cities are also plagued with murderous cybernetic 'goon' robots, that are constantly trying to take Montague's life, as he and his street hustling pal 'Tricky' tries to figure out which one of his jive-ass enemies are trying to kill him (as well as trying to stay one step ahead of 'The Man'). In the middle of this chaos, Romeo/Zero tries to find the thief of his ancient , multi-million dollar voodoo ring.
IMDB Rating: 1.2
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 194 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, horror comedy, neo noir, independent film
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Coyote (2014)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac writer's sleep-deprived hallucinations distort reality as paranoia drives him to extreme violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, controversial, cult horror
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The Flaying (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four teenage friends go on a road trip through Argentina. On their way, they find a castle left abandoned in the middle of a forest. They decide to investigate further, only to discover it's gruesome secrets and former residents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychedelic, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Doll (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Chris and Andy order a model from an escort service, they find that something is unnaturally wrong with Natasha, something deadly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Evangeline (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and left for dead, Evangeline finds herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare, where she is caught between salvation and vengeance. But to save herself, Evangeline discovers she must make the most horrifying choice of all….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Simon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Muse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, dark, dark fantasy, independent film, mystic
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Fedz (2013)
Plot Summary:
In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatened to release a killer virus. Time is running out for the FEDZ.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things get worse when it turns out the lodge is in use by an ex-military sniper, Farragut and his three accomplice, the Loomis brothers, as a hideout who just escaped from a military prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Apparition (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns that he is not alone in this quaint home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, teen horror
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Orgy of the Damned (2010)
Plot Summary:
Orgy of Blood is an erotic vampire tale set in a surreal world of pleasure and betrayal. Fosco, a 300 year old vampire, lives in a beautiful mansion with his wife Sabina and their son Dimitri. Their lives are a non-stop lust orgy where anything goes and always does! Until, Fauna (a naive young woman) and her boyfriend Micah show up and turn the ecstasy-driven clan into murderous back-stabbers, hell-bent on revenge and power.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, gothic, tense, sexy, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, homoerotic, campy
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Caged (2021)
Plot Summary:
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Evil Deeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Thief encounters a strange old Hermit who tells him tales of Evil Deeds - including a Detective's search for a escaped mental patient, a tale of young lady and her new beau who arrange to have her abusive father killed and the body disposed of - unfortunately he doesn't stay dead, and a babysitter is tormented by phone calls from a demented man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Anomalous (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, thrilling
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The Ideal (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past and present begin to blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson on history one can't find in books.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fear X (2003)
Plot Summary:
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, UK, Brazil
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, surreal, art house
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The Echo Game (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Profile for Murder (2013)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller. A police profiler who quit after a horrific case is terrorised by the escaped serial killer she sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Backtrack (2015)
Plot Summary:
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, touching, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological, psychedelic, suspense thriller
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Home Invasion (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hideaway (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, light, cult classic, serious, psychological thriller, gothic
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Achoura (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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The Library Suicides (2016)
Plot Summary:
Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing