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Plot Summary:
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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My Annoying Dead Brother (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Patrick Ryan (31) is an organized, by the book, 5th year surgical resident who has his whole life perfectly planned out, until he gets thrown a curve ball. His popular, fun loving younger brother, Drew Ryan (28), is fatally injured in a car accident. Patrick struggles to cope with his grief and begins to fall apart both at home, at the hospital, and is on the verge of losing everything he has worked for his entire life. Watching Patrick struggle from the other side, Drew's ghost decides to return in order to help Patrick get his life back on track. Drew decides he will help Patrick the best way any brother knows how- by making fun of him. You can be dead, and still be a jerk.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, dark, dark comedy
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The Sacrifice (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three years after the death of his father, 16-year-old Jonathan Kelly moves with his mother to the small New Hampshire town of Dunkirk. He is immediately drawn to David, a boy who shares his interest in the occult, and a tentative romance begins to develop between them. But when the boys try to learn the truth behind a local ghost story, they discover that someone is digging up graves in the oldest part of the cemetery, collecting human remains for a dark ritual...a ritual that will end in human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, disturbing
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Villains (2019)
Plot Summary:
When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, horror comedy, psychological thriller, slasher, semi serious, psychological, tragic ending, funny
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The Exorcism of God (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one final time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico, Venezuela, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lady Psycho Killer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A doe-eyed knife-wielding killer is on the loose in a small town slicing and dicing men of questionable intent left and right. As her brutality leaves a town littered with corpses, her unquenchable blood-lust is lost on her young lover who is willing to pursue her regardless of the obvious warning signs of psychosis. Will he meet his end at the end of her blade? She decides who lives or dies!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, exciting, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, psychotronic
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American Zombie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satirical, humorous, captivating, disturbing, mockumentary, suspense, horror comedy, weird, fun
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mumblecore, weird
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The Binding (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky
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Superhost (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two travel vloggers check into a vacation rental with a host that will do anything for a good review.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, dark comedy
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My Pure Joy (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing people in similar ways to films he watches, making sure to put his own little spin on it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, horror comedy
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This Is the Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, weird
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Room 203 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two female roommates were tormented by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style, rented apartment, which contains an ornate centerpiece.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, mystical, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, classic horror
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Double Parked (2000)
Plot Summary:
A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Ears (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Never Better (2022)
Plot Summary:
Terese is a young woman with Cystic Fibrosis stuck in the time loop of quarantine. She fights her boredom with beer, weed, and an unstoppable internal dialogue. When her self-interested roommate returns and fails to practice safe social distancing, she finds that boredom may be the least of her worries.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rattlesnake (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychological, splatter, weird
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Tilt (2017)
Plot Summary:
All seems normal with Joseph and Joanne. Joanne is pregnant with their first child. Life in their little urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph. He doesn’t seem excited about the baby. Work on his documentary is becoming increasingly untethered. As Joseph struggles to maintain the routines of his domestic life, his mask begins to slip. Late at night, while Joanne thinks he is working, Joseph prowls the streets of Los Angeles, deliberately courting danger. Joanne is growing worried about Joseph’s odd behavior. But not as worried as she should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mumblecore, weird
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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
Plot Summary:
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore, weird
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Southbound (2015)
Plot Summary:
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, dark, disturbing, spooky, psychological, tense, road movie, atmospheric, enigmatic
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The Midnight Swim (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white, atmospheric, stylized, scary, underground film, horror comedy
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The Entity (1982)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, splatter, sexual, slasher, terrifying
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Limbo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defence attorney. The trial spins out of control when a powerful demon, Lucifer and people from the killer’s past become involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Pop Skull (2007)
Plot Summary:
Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This hallucinatory horror film leaps off the screen with its disturbingly vivid visuals.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating, retro, surreal, disturbing, controversial, scary
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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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Pyewacket (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, demonic, post-horror, captivating, psychological, surprise ending, atmospheric, intellectual
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They Look Like People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing, mumblecore, mind bending, philosophical
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After Midnight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, mumblecore, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, romantic