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Plot Summary:
Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, surreal, scary, tense, captivating, mind bending, offbeat, suspenseful, tv series pilot
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The Last Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be exposed to in this psychological revenge thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke (2007)
Plot Summary:
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after, members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Before returning to England for provisions, leader John White puts his son-in-law Ananais Dare in charge, and Dare realizes the island is haunted by Norse spirits. Enlisting the aid of a friendly Native American, Dare attempts to free the spirits from their earthly captivity before the entire colony is lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, exciting, tense, gloomy, independent film
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Alienate (2016)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological
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Dragon Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer chip useless. He must now keep his family alive, fight off would be thieves and a newly corrupted government and ultimately make the hardest decision of his life- to survive. Written by Patterson, Matt (V).
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Blood River (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger who seems to know decidedly more than he is sharing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, spaghetti western, creepy, twisted, scary
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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Grey Skies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will have to outwit a force that is both inhuman and extremely intelligent in order to survive. The outcome will shock and amaze you as we come to realize... we are not alone in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological, cult film
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Dark House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, demonic, cult horror, awful
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After (2012)
Plot Summary:
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, retro, independent film, psychotronic, sexual, sexy, bizarre
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an eerie voice of someone outside of the room. Throughout, they use their minds to try to think as to why they are there. As time elapses the stakes and chances for survival are slim, but the question remains: who is behind this - the end reveals a startling answer.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Diary (2006)
Plot Summary:
Winnie Leung becomes more disturbed and depressed after her boyfriend Seth Lau breaks up with her and she turns schizophrenic - imagining events which never occurred, and often living in her own world- until one day she meets a guy named Ray, bearing a close resemblance to Seth. Seeing this, her best friend Yvonne encourages her to go out with Hou so she can forget her misery and start over. As time passes, Winnie realises that the relationship with Ray is so alike her previous relationship with Seth, and when things seem to be running smoothly, the relationship begins to sours, just like with Seth. She begins to doubt his feelings and the lines between reality and fantasy start blurring again for her, leading her to question: did this all exist in the first place?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, space horror, captivating, suspense
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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Pulse 2: Afterlife (2008)
Plot Summary:
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, suspense, apocalyptic, surprise ending, futuristic
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The Messengers (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, action adventure, demonic
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The Divide (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing, satanic, scary, controversial, psychotronic
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Aftermath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named Hunter survives the nuclear attack and is thrown together by happenstance with a group of wounded and frightened victims, including Elizabeth, a strong-willed confidant to Hunter, Brad - an antagonistic redneck jackass, and Jennifer, a barely coherent young woman suffering from severe post-traumatic stress. Together, they attempt to endure the devastating holocaust as they struggle with claustrophobia and conflicting personalities. In a makeshift shelter, Hunter and his dying companions wait for news from the government while fending off hunger, radiation sickness, and a horde of frightened and dying refugees.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, serious, scary, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, erotic
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Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, harsh, bleak, suspenseful, serious, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, surreal, absurd
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Enter Nowhere (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, retro, suspense, dramatic, surreal, twist ending, minimal cast
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Coherence (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, mind blowing, suspenseful, tense, confusing, mindfuck, suspense, serious, intellectual
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Under the Dome (2013)
Plot Summary:
Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of the world. With no Internet access, no mobile signals and limited radio communication, the people trapped inside must find their own ways to survive with diminishing resources and rising tensions. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense, atmospheric, sitcom, grindhouse, action packed, suspenseful
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The Remaining (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, christian film, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, demonic, apocalyptic, mockumentary
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The Happening (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending, apocalyptic, bleak
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic, serious, epic, bloody, psychological, exciting