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Plot Summary:
When two rival crews head into the desert to shoot a reality show based on a buried Navajo treasure, they discover that truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's more dangerous. Something wants them from digging deeper and from escaping the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher
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Dark Amazon (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film crew tracks a group of researchers and their breakthrough disease research. While battling through the rain-forest, things turn deadly leaving them fighting to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Lake Alice (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last….
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, slasher, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Playdate (2012)
Plot Summary:
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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13 Graves (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the orders of their boss, two seasoned contract killers are marching their latest victim to the mob graveyard they have used for several years. When he escapes leaving them no choice but to hunt him through the surrounding forest, they are soon hopelessly lost. As night falls they uncover a dark and terrifying truth about the vast, sprawling woodland, and the hunters become the hunted as they find themselves stalked by an ancient supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Palace of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following in the footsteps of her late fiancée, who drowned under mysterious circumstances, Rebecca (played by Katie Savoy) and her film crew are in China making a documentary about the Chinese Ghost Festival. There, she learns of a story about a concubine Chan Ju Chi who is violently murdered and thrown into a well by the head concubine Ping Wei (Played by JuJu Chan) within the secret grounds of a palace. Legend has it that the Chan Ju Chi has risen to become a "jiangshi", killing innocent people in the hope of taking over their bodies. Things take a turn when a worker is attacked in a decrepit well within an old palace. Rebecca tries to piece together the mystery behind the legend as one by one the people she knows are gruesomely murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Urban Myths (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school seniors embark on a spring break camping trip to investigate the myths they had been researching and learning from their History teacher. During their trip, they stumble on an old haunted Indian Burial ground and get more than they bargained for when some of the group start to vanish. This film showcases some of the best that Northern Michigan has to offer, along with an all-star cast.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shutter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural stalker pursues a super model to steal her soul with his demonic camera.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Invited (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided there for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Demon Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marta used to be a recognized and successful psychic, but after a dramatic experience, she loses faith in her gift and develops agoraphobia. She couldn't see the devilish side of her rapper, Mario, and now, Marta is afraid that Mario will stalk her again. As soon as she released from the asylum, she moves to Monica's uncle apartment. There, she feels safe. But soon, she has trouble with her crazy neighbors. And if this wasn't enough, a spectrum starts to haunt her, making her life impossible. Marta will have to fight against all these difficulties and manage to get her gift back before Mario finds her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Hollow Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Chupacabra Territory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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Echoes of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Spirit in the Woods (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fate of five local college students who went missing in the infamous Spiritual Woods is finally unraveled as previously unreleased footage is made public.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary
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Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan MacKinlay is a man trapped inside his home by his own mind. Suffering from agoraphobia, caused by a car accident that took his wife's life; his existence has been reduced to a monotonous repetition of identical days. As his dread and self-loathing escalate, an onslaught of gruesome visions and twisted, waking nightmares begins to gnaw away at his last shred of sanity. Are these ghastly visions imaginary, private demons...or is he being victimized by a very real entity of infinite terror and unspeakable evil?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I-Lived (2015)
Plot Summary:
Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone... but essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Munafik 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ustaz Adam has to help a friend whose village is corrupted by a group of misguided religionists lead by a sinister sorcerer. To make matter worse, Adam himself is also being mysteriously haunted by evil apparitions that keeps disturbing him from time to time.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Reunion (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Cry from Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sebastien is a psychological horror story about dark secrets destroying people and their families from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Deadly Revisions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
A collection of gut-twisting and nerve-shredding tales, all Frankstein’d together to form a feature-length monster of the best and bloodiest in short-film horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Inherited (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Stairs (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1997, 11 year old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers, set off into the very same woods. Unfortunately for them, they come face to face with the very same set of stairs Jesse discovered all those years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Munger Road (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, slasher, tense, suspense, independent film, serious
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Night at the Eagle Inn (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fraternal twins spend a hellish night at the remote inn their father disappeared from the night they were born.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher
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Murder In The Woods (2021)
Plot Summary:
Soon after arriving to a mysterious cabin in the woods, a group of teens discover the dark secret it holds, which forces them to fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher horror, teen horror
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Aaron's Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
Single father Aaron fights to save his 12-year-old hemophiliac son after becoming infected with vampire blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Lurking Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Supernatural Drama about an addictive woman who is given a chance at redemption if she accepts Death's offer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic