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Plot Summary:
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, satanic, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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Cubbyhouse (2001)
Plot Summary:
Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder and satanic ritual. Before long, her two youngest kids have fallen under the spell of an evil force emanating from a sinister cubbyhouse in the back garden, and bloody past events look set to repeat themselves.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
Savage Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
Julia Young and Steven Harris are having marital troubles, but on a weekend trip to visit Julia's family on the remote Savage Island, marital problems quickly become the least of their worries. An intense struggle between the Young and the Savage families, the only residents living on the island, takes thrills and chills to a whole new and disturbing level. The Savages, a bunch that take the terms 'hillbilly', and 'hick' to a new frontier, are out to claim Steven and Julia's baby as payment for the death of their own son who was accidentally run over by Julia's pot-head younger brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, scary
Similar in 77%
Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, suspense, dark, mystic, serious
Similar in 84%
Sharon's Baby (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, satanic, supernatural thriller, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 75%
Beware: Children at Play (1989)
Plot Summary:
Parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back. After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult leader, they turn on their parents with gruesome results.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, psychological, controversial, spooky, terrifying, slasher, scary, rough, offbeat
Similar in 83%
The Attic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological, apocalyptic, surprise ending, interesting
Similar in 81%
The Gathering (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cassie Grant (Christina Ricci) is a young girl from the United States who is wandering through England on foot. On her way to Ashby Wake Cassie is hit by a car. The driver of the car, Mrs Marion Kirkman (Kerry Fox), immediately calls an ambulance. During an examination at the local hospital the doctor comes to the conclusion that Cassie only has some scratches and not even a concussion, but Cassie has lost her memory due to the accident. She only knows her name and mother country, but she does not know which town she comes from, who her family is and why she is in England.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, mystical, suspense, controversial, apocalyptic, scary, serious
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Plague Town (2008)
Plot Summary:
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, scary, slasher, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Blessed (2004)
Plot Summary:
Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mystic, tense
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11/11/11 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Melissa are frightened by their son's bizarre and violent behavior; they soon learn that he is the gateway to the Apocalypse, and it will happen on his birthday, 11-11-11.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, offbeat, futuristic
Similar in 79%
The Neighbor (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Hallowed Ground (2007)
Plot Summary:
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, spooky
Similar in 77%
The Paper Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, terrifying, independent film, sexual
Similar in 82%
The Monitor (2011)
Plot Summary:
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, social, grindhouse, cult horror
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Acacia (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense
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London Voodoo (2004)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family is tearing apart and that his wife's behavior becomes more violent and erratic, he accepts that to save the woman he married he must take a leap of faith. London Voodoo is one of the few films about voodoo to show the belief system in a positive light. Here, it's "work" that's evil. The film shows multicultural voodoo followers in a contemporary urban setting (London). As research for the script, the filmmakers travelled to Cuba, Miami and New Orleans to experience voodoo first hand.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
The Daisy Chain (2008)
Plot Summary:
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
Sick Boy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie Rochon, is hiding something—the truth turns out to be far worse than she could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, realistic, independent film
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Long Time Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, bloody
Similar in 77%
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
Plot Summary:
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they carry out their plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, scary, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, rough, offbeat
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for the road and plants them in the courtyard of an abandoned warehouse, bringing "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" to the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark, saga, pastoral, cult horror, tense, atmospheric
Similar in 83%
The Cradle (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
Daddy's Girl (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, terrifying, independent film, mind bending, slasher
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Killing Ariel (2008)
Plot Summary:
One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally Rick kills Ariel. But she won't stay dead. He soon realizes that she is the demon that first attacked him. He defends himself by killing her again. And again. But no matter how many times he kills her, she keeps coming back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 78%
Relative Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective, mystical, terrifying, independent film, mind bending
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The Omen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, intense, stylized, demonic, splatter, religious horror
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Plot Summary:
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to examine their "treasure," they unleash the vengeful spirit of an Irish servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners throughout the generations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
Similar in 82%
Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
Plot Summary:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense, surreal, controversial, cult horror, terrifying
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher