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Plot Summary:
Nick is haunted by night terrors stemming from a tragic murder he saw when he was young. After inheriting an old toy shop, he discovers a cursed elf doll sealed inside an ancient chest with a naughty list of his family's names written on it. He soon discovers that the elf was an evil conduit meant to unleash a supernatural killing spree during the Christmas Holidays by whomever set it free.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy, slasher horror, scary
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Windigo (2011)
Plot Summary:
In June of 2004, a group of film students and actors from Toronto camp out on the property of one of this town's only residents. With uncooperative actors, technical problems, and of course swarms of mosquitos, the project they went there to film quickly goes downhill. Brandon, the camera man, starts noticing strange things on the tapes, and people start acting weird. Could the people of Bonville have something to hide?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Toymaker (2017)
Plot Summary:
In Germany, 1941, the Nazis pursue a Toymaker who has acquired a mystical book which gives life to inanimate objects.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Conjuring the Devil (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is struggling with the conflict between her faith and her personal life must defend herself against the spirit of a demonic nun who is bent on destroying her.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing
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It Lives Inside (2018)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Jeff Hall; starring Rett Terrell, Alissa Rose Ford, Liam Rose, Laurie Cummings, Christian R. Black, Philip W. Paz, Justin Hendrix, Bill Brewer, and Briana Looby. A chronic sleepwalker reads from a mysterious book that foretells his impending demonic possession. He then struggles to hold his family together as the ancient evil threatens to consume everything he holds dear.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Holy Terror (2017)
Plot Summary:
Believing their deceased son isn't at peace, Molly and Tom ask a medium to make contact. But after they invite a vengeful demon to cross over, the couple must enlist the help of a disgraced priest to attempt a dangerous exorcism.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hot
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869 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight aspiring actresses are thrown together in a house to compete for title of Scream Queen. Little do they or the crew know that the house is haunted by a ghost seeking revenge. Who will live, who will die in this horror comedy that pokes fun at both reality shows and horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Accidental Exorcist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fate has dealt Richard Vanuck a very strange hand; he's a natural born exorcist. In fact, he's the best there's ever been, and with possessions on the rise across the city he's booked solid. Eventually he comes to realize that performing exorcisms is the only thing he's truly good at, even though his daily battles with Satanic forces are wearing him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Hell Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
A demonic creature not of this world impregnates a woman. 160 years later a team of ghost hunters must set aside their quick buck party mentality when they discover one of their team is the offspring of the entity haunting the place - and its true target. The offspring and her friends become uneasy allies with the ghost of the mother to destroy the demon and restore harmony.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky
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Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the macabre footsteps of the first VAULT OF TERROR installment, this sequel anthology film tells six more evil, demonic, hellish tales of dread and horror by some of the genre's best filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, dark fairy tale
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Sorority Slaughterhouse (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five sorority girls with dark secrets, including one who just committed murder and another with a mysterious past, awaken one morning to find themselves locked inside their sorority house. Helplessly trapped with a escaped axe maniac.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, queer horror, independent film
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Dolls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Mansion of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire Mason Murphy renovates the haunted Mayhew mansion. He plans a tremendous lunar eclipse viewing party to celebrate his return to his hometown of River Ridge Iowa. At the party, magic runs out of control and the party guests are murdered one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic
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Ghost Theater (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Within These Walls (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prisoner in her own home, a captive in her own body. Assaulted and trapped with no one to hear her cries for help... and knowing no one will believe her if they do. This is the terrifying reality Alaina finds herself in when she moves in to the house her mother died in. At first she thinks it's the loss of her mother that is haunting her, but she is soon shown it is something far more malicious and unrelenting. The spirit taunts her as it invades her body, mind, and soul, completely trapping her. Alaina has to fight for answers on what really happened to her mother if she has any hopes of survival. She must find a way to endure this monster who lives and breathes to rob her of her sanity as it demands a savage hold on her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Infernum (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ancient literature has referred to the sound of hell as "the wailing and gnashing of teeth." Many people believe that may be the explanation behind a paranormal phenomenon that has been heard around the world. Camille Williams (Suziey Block) believes this haunting sound is responsible for the disappearance of her parents when she was a young girl. Now a grown woman, Camille sets out with her friend James (Clinton Roper Elledge) to hopefully find some answers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Provoked (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of amateur paranormal investigators, frustrated with the lack of any solid evidence after months of attempts, decide to provoke and taught spirits from the afterlife in a last ditch attempt for a paranormal encounter. The experiment works, but they have awakened something angry and very deadly - something that follows them home and now will not leave. The investigators must now defend their home, and their family, from the spirits who were brought into this world and are not going without taking some souls with them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Hong Kong Ghost Stories (2011)
Plot Summary:
Wong Jing's Classroom follows Ling, the new substitute teacher at a suburban high school. She feels something wrong about her class. The students in her Class 4E are an unruly bunch, except for Don Don, who always sits quietly in the corner. Suspecting that her students Gi Gi, Co Co, and Fong engage in prostitution, Ling reports the problems with her class to the dean, only to be told that there has never been a Class 4E in the school... In Patrick Kong's Travel, a group of friends go on vacation in Mainland, during which Bo gets killed in a road accident. At Bo's funeral, her travel mates meet Bo's estranged lover Ka Ming , with whom Bo had a heated quarrel on the phone just prior to her tragic death. At the hot-pot dinner after the funeral, a pale-faced Ka Ming reveals to the survivors the secret of his relationship with Bo before going on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Darkness Reigns (2018)
Plot Summary:
A film crew is ravaged by a demon, who is hell bent on cashing in on a deal he made with someone on set who was seeking fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Encounter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a séance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Exscind (2016)
Plot Summary:
After reading a magazine article about a case of multiple murders 50 years ago, an excited paranormal group sets out to investigate the site where the serial killers lived and where the horrifying crimes occurred. As day turns to night and evidence mounts, they encounter a situation far beyond their control and expectations.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ghost Note (2017)
Plot Summary:
An immortal blues musician terrorizes childhood sweethearts reunited over the Thanksgiving holiday.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Curse of Humpty Dumpty (2021)
Plot Summary:
An old doll seemingly returns to life to wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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When Death Calls (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween, and an elementary school teacher is being stalked by a mysterious caller. Meanwhile, sexy DJ Roxy Richards is making her scariest broadcast yet - but she may not realize how scary things are going to get when an old friend calls in.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology
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Hell Hole (2013)
Plot Summary:
When two of the world's biggest slackers accidentally open the door to hell, they have to figure out a way to close it before hell's monsters destroy the earth, and their babes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dead Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple – Anne and Harold – moves into a new home without knowing it was a site of horrific murders, Anne's loneliness and strange behavior makes their relationship complicated, especially after Anne meets 'Mary', a dark presence from which she can't escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return (2019)
Plot Summary:
Several years after a deadly struggle with her serial killer aunt, Jordan works to escape her troubled history. But when her aunt's revenge-seeking specter surfaces to join forces with a deranged convict, Jordan must return to the haunted town of Silver Falls for a final showdown with the ghosts of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brimstone Incorporated (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone Incorporated features three ghoulish tales of terror and a wraparound, the latter centering around a law firm that serves as the gateway to Hell. Stories include Mama's Boy, First Date and Skunk Weed,.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Exit 14 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Laurie, a good-natured college student, embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith, Joey, and her boyfriend Mick. They get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk and are haunted by the ghost story he shares with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Incorporeal (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tale of an overzealous movie director and his unappreciative leading actress that go on a location scouting mission. What they find will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, meta