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Plot Summary:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, splatter, sexual, slasher, terrifying
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The Spider (1992)
Plot Summary:
Vita, a beautiful teenage girl, is asked by a controversial artist to pose as the Virgin Mary for a painting. She visits his studio and finds herself swept up into the bizarre world of the artist and his bohemian friends. She seems to see his paintings come to life and is pursued by strange shadowy figures. Later she has nightmarish visions of the artist visiting her at night in the form of a huge spider. The next morning she finds marks on her body that look like the bites of a large insect. Vita’s mother becomes worried about her and sends the girl off to stay with relatives in the countryside, believing that the change of environment will help her to recover. However, it seems the dark forces that threatened Vita in the city have followed her and an ancient evil is being awakened that feeds off Vita’s burgeoning sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Latvia, Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic horror, sexy, suspense, sinister, demonic, psycho sexual, psychotronic, psychological horror, psychological
Similar in 83%
The Chair (2007)
Plot Summary:
Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. Danielle's sister Anna now must find a way to stop Crowe without killing her sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious
Similar in 85%
Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, tense, disturbing, queer horror, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, dark, splatter
Similar in 78%
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Lutz family have managed to flee their home with their lives intact, but before them, another family lived in this house and were caught up in the original evil who weren't so lucky.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspense, slasher, splatter, frightening, psychotronic, atmospheric, action thriller, cult horror
Similar in 88%
The Haunting of Julia (1977)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, suspense, sad, gothic horror, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, scary
Similar in 77%
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, mysterious, suspense, psychological thriller, spooky, psychological
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China White Serpentine (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and dangerous mind games. This was Tracey's world, and it eventually killed Trent. Another junkie named Beth, who was also seduced and killed by Tracey, appears to Dave. Beth begins to pull Dave into the nightmare that killed his brother Trent. Dave's sanity spirals out of control as he is assaulted by realizations of Trent's dark past. The prick of needles, the pain of violence, the pleasures of naked flesh. This tempest of desire and agony engulfs Dave. It is his task to unlock the dark, seedy mysteries of Trent's past while surviving the journey himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, realistic, experimental
Similar in 81%
The Antichrist (1974)
Plot Summary:
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, gothic horror, demonic, splatter, classic horror, phantasmagoric, scary
Similar in 90%
The Haunted (1991)
Plot Summary:
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, rough, suspenseful, spooky, retro, atmospheric, creepy, frightening
Similar in 89%
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Plot Summary:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, satanic, controversial, grindhouse, anamorphic, cult classic
Similar in 76%
Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Pop Skull (2007)
Plot Summary:
Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This hallucinatory horror film leaps off the screen with its disturbingly vivid visuals.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating, retro, surreal, disturbing, controversial, scary
Similar in 85%
An American Haunting (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, creepy, period piece, atmospheric, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing, splatter, creepy
Similar in 82%
Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
Similar in 82%
The Exorcist III (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. It eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is the The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, splatter, detective, cult classic, frightening, religious horror
Similar in 81%
Audrey Rose (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, tense, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, intense, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Fear (1983)
Plot Summary:
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, slasher, psychological thriller, scary, bleak, depressing, surreal
Similar in 84%
The Girl Next Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, rough, brutal, depressing, suspense, controversial
Similar in 85%
The Awakening (2011)
Plot Summary:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological, atmospheric, gothic horror, enigmatic, suspense, dark
Similar in 81%
Lake Mungo (2008)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, scary, psychological, creepy, tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, disturbing, slasher
Similar in 82%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic
Similar in 78%
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, demonic, splatter
Similar in 80%
The Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, twisted, controversial, psychological thriller, bloody
Similar in 78%
American Mary (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, slasher, brutal, suspense, rough, bloody, atmospheric
Similar in 76%
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
Similar in 75%
The Ordeal (2004)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Similar in 84%
Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
Similar in 87%
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, splatter, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, tense, classic horror, thrilling
Similar in 87%
The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic