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Plot Summary:
A documentary film crew investigate a series of brutal killings known as the Black Water murders. As they delve deeper into the story, they stumble upon a horrifying secret. One they may not survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, mockumentary
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Village of the Vampire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca is searching for her sister, a young journalist who went missing while investigating a series of unfortunate events. The trail leads her to Timere, a remote place far from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where amidst the tight lipped silence of the town's inhabitants there's an ever growing fear of dark forces at work and no-one dares to leave their home at night. Here Rebecca meets an extravagant writer, the church warden of the town and above all Caleb, a charming, rich and elegant man whose dark gaze hides a chilling secret. It's in this town, where time appears to move between the shadows and danger lurks around every corner that Rebecca learns of the terrible truth and the battle between good and evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Amityville: Mt Misery Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Buzi are ghosts' enthusiasts fascinated by the legend of the scariest road in America, Mt. Misery Road. The couple continues their adventure to the woods until they realize they got into the whirlpool of paranormal activities.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, psychotronic, spooky, low-budget
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Wendigo (2001)
Plot Summary:
George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to take in the winter sights, though the drive up is hardly relaxing for any of them. George accidentally hits and severely injures a deer that ran onto the icy road; after George stops to inspect the damage, he's confronted by an angry local named Otis who flies into a rage, telling George that he and his fellow hunters had been tracking the deer for some time. An argument breaks out, which leaves George feeling deeply shaken.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, psychological, spiritual, psychotronic, spooky, independent film
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Shadow Puppets (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to erase disturbing memories, but instead, a murderous creature has been unleashed. Reaching out from the shadows, the monster hunts the eight strangers as they race to escape the asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, dark, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Bodom (2014)
Plot Summary:
For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockumentary, realistic, independent film
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Toe Tags (2003)
Plot Summary:
The high rent district of Valley Creek apartments, seems to be a magnet for beautiful people....those who can afford to live there. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, serious, realistic, slasher
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The Rake (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, christmas horror, psychological horror
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Hunting the Legend (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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The Jungle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Big cat conservationist LARRY BLACK and his film-maker brother BEN travel into the Indonesian jungle to find and document the rare and endangered Javan Leopard. As they travel deeper and deeper into the jungle they realise they are being stalked by a deadly predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, scenic, mockumentary, serious
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The Cavern (2005)
Plot Summary:
8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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The Wisher (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, teen horror
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Alpha Wolf (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Virginia and her husband Jack spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Monster Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, surprise ending, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Camp Dread (2014)
Plot Summary:
The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, serious, teen horror, slasher horror
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The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
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Willow Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, cult classic, spooky, tense
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Episode 50 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Plot Summary:
According to local legend, the ghosts of tortured slaves still haunt New Orleans' Lalaurie House. For The St. Francisville Experiment, a paranormal researcher, a self-proclaimed psychic, a Louisiana historian, and a filmmaker were given digital video cameras for one night in the house to document whatever they saw. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mockumentary, dark, independent film, mind bending, psychotronic
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Paranormal Entity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were called to the scene by Thomas Finley himself. He was found inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms.After questioning, Thomas was taken into custody. In his police statement, Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later, he committed suicide.It is the opinion of those closely related to the family, that this video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mockumentary, dark, mockbuster, retro, suspense, independent film
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The Tunnel (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, rough, suspenseful, spooky, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, slasher, psychological
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V/H/S (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, creepy
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Devil's Pass (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual, creepy, mockumentary, harsh, natural horror, psychological
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Afflicted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, dark, intense, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, bloody, mockumentary