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Plot Summary:
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, exciting
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The Curse of Hobbes House (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her Grandmother, Jane Dormant travels to the family’s remote, ancestral home hoping to receive a large inheritance. When Jane’s estranged, half-sister Jennifer arrives at Hobbes House to claim her part of the estate, the sisters’ simmering hate breaks out completely. But then a violent, unexpected storm cuts the estate off from outside help and a wave of bloodthirsty zombies lays siege. Now the sisters have to learn how to fight back together.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, independent film
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Dark Sea (2013)
Plot Summary:
A strange black spot approaches the coast, bringing death and destruction to a fishing village. In a desperate flight to escape the chaos, lonely Albino fights for the great love of his life at the risk of his own soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scary, exciting, touching, disturbing, horror comedy
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The Hollow Child (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, fairy tale, demonic, dark drama, queer horror
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Lake of Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends vacation in a cabin close to a lake where local legends say a man disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It's not long until they start feeling the same dark force pulling them closer to the lake.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, teen horror
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The Godsend (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, psychotronic
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Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (2019)
Plot Summary:
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, mystical, tense
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Kandisha (2020)
Plot Summary:
While working on their graffiti pieces in a condemned apartment building, best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana discover a name scribbled on one of the walls — Kandisha. Morjana recognises the name as that of a powerful demon found in Moroccan folklore, summoned by women to exact vengeance on men. When Amélie is later assaulted by her ex, she remembers Morjana's story and, angry and upset, impulsively summons the spirit. The next day, her ex is found dead. The legend is true, and now Kandisha is on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary
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Unearth (2020)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, wild
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El Regreso de La Llorona (2021)
Plot Summary:
La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach after they accidentally kill a young girl.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country:
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bulbbul (2020)
Plot Summary:
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, enigmatic, perverse, phantasmagoric
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Olalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla" tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Binding (2020)
Plot Summary:
While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, atmospheric
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Conjuring the Genie (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the passing of her father, Morgan is told by her course tutor she must complete an assignment on an urban legend. Morgan and her friends awake the demonic genie from an amulet. Their wishes are granted one by one. Morgan is granted the wish of her father’s life back. However, soon, the group of friends realize their wishes are about to turn deadly, and they will realize the horrors the genie can create.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Tar (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychotronic
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Bats (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following a nuclear power plant meltdown, a nearby village known as Nosferatu Village, became radiated, and subsequently abandoned for more than a decade. The year is 1984, and the public are now permitted to return, and a small group come back to their family home to discover a radiated bat living in their attic. The family must survive the night to escape, but the monster has other plans as they soon begin to find themselves infected with a deadly plague that will kill them if the beast doesn't. Waiting for sun to rise, they must figure a way to survive the night, battling against the creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
The Infected (2011)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around Marcos, a thirty something year old man largely unremarkable but for the fact that he managed to escape an epidemic of the undead sweeping through Mexico City - and, indeed, the world - by taking flight and surviving as best he can in the remote hill country. It is there that he meets and takes up with the oafish Renato, young mother Claudia and her young daughter Zoe. The rules to survive are simple. Leave no trace, make no sound and leave no odors behind. The undead, you see, hunt by sound and smell. And no matter how careful Marcos and his group are, the undead are ranging farther and farther afield looking for food as the population in the city dwindles. It is only a matter of time before they are found.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Anger of the Dead (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the plague. Meanwhile a dangerous man is on the trail of a mysterious girl, and Alice soon discovers that zombies are not the only threat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wasteland (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious, violent creature that starts stalking their small house will put the relationship that unites them to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, powerful
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The Transfiguration (2016)
Plot Summary:
A New York tale about love, loss… and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, mumblecore
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Wake Wood (2009)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, captivating, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, suspense, surreal, apocalyptic, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
You Are Not My Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, intellectual, slasher, weird
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His House (2020)
Plot Summary:
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, slasher, art house, spooky, intense, dark
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, psychological horror, spooky, psychotronic, cult film
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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
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The Shed (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, dark, natural horror, weird
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Under the Bed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mystical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Black Cat (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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A Capital dos Mortos 2: Mundo Morto (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the events of "The Capital of the Dead", Lucas joins forces with the traumatized Denise. Together they attempt to keep their sanity while fighting off the undead in a world where zombies are not the most dangerous beings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious
Similar in 77%
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