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Plot Summary:
Vivian begins college as a shy, self-consciousness freshman, but she begins a complete transformation after becoming a dorm mate of the popular Sarah.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, corny
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Solstice (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl uncovers a disturbing secret about her twin sister, who committed suicide just a few months before.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, creepy, slasher, scary, serious
Similar in 81%
Rage: Midsummer's Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
American and British friends studying in Finland decide to take up an offer to travel to the Arctic Circle and experience the mysterious, pagan celebration of Midsummer's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, creepy, teen horror
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Death at Love House (1976)
Plot Summary:
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, who's father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. His wife attemts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, mind bending, gothic, serious, suspenseful, silent, silent film
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Blood Legend (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find neither are really what she expected. The resurrected lover is not exactly the beautiful woman her uncle talked of in years past and the rewards her uncle had in mind for her are not made of a princes' fairy tales. The young witch finds the real truth of the "Blood Lengend".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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Seance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over Thanksgiving weekend, all but five students in an old Manhattan building that's now a college dormitory leave for home: staying on one floor are roommates Lauren, Melina, and Alison, plus her boyfriend Diego and Grant, a loner in a room down the hall. Lauren's been seeing things in her bathroom: a silent child of about six. Diego has written a paper on parapsychology, so he holds a séance with the disbelieving co-eds. Something goes awry, because bad things start to happen and the students' only defender is an aging campus cop named Syd. What's the silent ghostly girl's secret, and can Alison discover what's going on before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror, scary, slasher, semi serious
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Stitch (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to burn away emotional baggage. Unfortunately the amateur ritual goes awry, and cosmic forces are unleashed, revealing something sinister ravaging each person with a progression of gruesome, medieval surgical scars. As the stitches rip skin and tear apart relationships, a battle for survival ensues, forcing the couples to come to terms with loss, betrayal, love, and hope.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense
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Devil's Due (2014)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, brutal, suspense, satanic
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Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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The Incubus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Things are starting to change when a group of mysterious teens move into the small town of Spoon River. All of a sudden, people in the neighborhood are starting to come down with an unexplained disease. In spite of this, one girl is intrigued by the spirits that embraces the newcomers. Will her curiosity be the death of her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, gothic, captivating, independent film, vintage
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Dead & Rotting (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three prankster buddies release the wrath of an aged witch, Abigail, when they unwittingly become accomplices to the murder of her son. Scheming in anger, the witch seduces the three friends and then uses the men's own ill-born spawn to destroy them. Death and rot are left in the wake.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mind bending, offbeat
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One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
Plot Summary:
Emiri, a timid high school girl, is bullied mercilessly by her classmates, but when her friend, Asuka, stands up for her, Asuka becomes the target of the bullying instead. Emiri, not wanting to be bullied again, avoids Asuka. Worn down, Asuka attempts to commit suicide, but is saved by the school janitor and remains in a comatose state in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, slasher, psychotronic, scary
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, spooky, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, asian horror
Similar in 86%
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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The Dead Ones (2019)
Plot Summary:
For four outcast teens, summer detention means being assigned to clean their high school after a horrific incident. But they are not alone; a macabre gang wearing guises of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - Famine, Pestilence, War and Death - has locked them inside and is hunting them through the school's ravaged hallways. As the four students battle to survive, each must confront the supernatural echoes of past traumas they have struggled to forget - and may be condemned to relive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
Similar in 79%
Blood Curse (2006)
Plot Summary:
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, suspense
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Haunt (2013)
Plot Summary:
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that is family has unknowingly just purchased.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, serious
Similar in 79%
Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
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Woe (2020)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister stumble upon their father's secret one year after his death. They soon learn that this secret may not be his alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy
Similar in 78%
Find Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Similar in 75%
Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, frightening, scary, suspenseful, independent film
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House of Bones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, terrifying, surprise ending
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Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
This Japan production spins-off the story of the first Paranormal Activity film by having the ghost from the first film follow a student back to her homeland after a visit to San Diego where she is tragically injured during a car accident. Back home in Japan, she is cared for by her brother, Koichi, who begins to suspect that something is amiss when his sister's wheelchair begins to move on its own. From there, the picture takes on the usual candid cam shocks of the series. Tokyo Night is notable for being an official part of the franchise (it was released in Japan two days before Paranormal Activity 2's release in the States), even though the U.S. has yet to see an official release.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, saga, creepy
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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)
Plot Summary:
Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, entertaining, christmas horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, demonic, psychotronic, mockumentary
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The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film
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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, stylized, serious, suspenseful, demonic
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The Appearing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
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The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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Soul Survivors (2001)
Plot Summary:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real and the spirit worlds in which the ghosts of the afterlife want to collect her, or even worse, use her body in its transition state to enter our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense