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Plot Summary:
Awoken by screams in the night, young Evelyn Whipley is found drenched in blood and mysteriously bound to the bed - A Gothic Horror set in the 1940s, a psychosexual thriller disguised as traditional Ghost Story.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Eyes of the Beholder (1992)
Plot Summary:
A crazed escaped mental patient holds 2 couples hostage and terrorizes them in a Malibu beach home during a stormy night.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Femme (2023)
Plot Summary:
Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Dark Place (2014)
Plot Summary:
Keegan Dark returns to the the heart of California's winery valleys to make peace with his long-estranged family. Instead, he finds a harrowing mystery that endangers his family's lives and livelihood.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, vintage, queer cinema
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Crushed (2015)
Plot Summary:
After her father dies in an eerie accident at the family's winery, Ellia returns home from the big city to tend to the remaining members of her disaffected family. The death is eventually ruled a homicide, with Ellia’s mother emerging as the prime suspect. Ellia takes matters into her own hands, compelled to discover the true story behind her father’s death. But the family and small-town secrets that emerge are more than she bargained for. Australia’s stunning wine country is the backdrop for this thrilling murder mystery from Director Megan Riakos.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)
Plot Summary:
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s girlfriend vanishes, she is forced to question the very existence of monsters in a final showdown with the enigmatic count.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, surprise ending, twist ending
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Cannibal Diner (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, rough, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Muscle (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends. The films of Pasolini, especially "Salò," dominate Ryuzaki's imagination; he works sometimes at the Lunatic Theatre, which shows films about rough trade; and, he becomes involved with a couple into BDSM. Will Ryuzaki find Kitami, and what will happen if he does?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Primal Instinct (2002)
Plot Summary:
Footage of a brutal murder becomes a feature on the internet.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Rift (2017)
Plot Summary:
Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, dark drama, queer horror, queer cinema
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Momentos de Prazer e Agonia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Mailman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly Mailman in a small, placid suburban town. Darius Foxx scarred for life as a young boy by seeing his parents brutally murdered, comes back to town as the new Mailman to torment his younger brother, Daniel, and Daniel's adopted family.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Tulpa: Demon of Desire (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career, but at night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness, but when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because of the scandal impacting on her day job, so she tries to unmask the anonymous assassin herself, with truly nightmare consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Scab (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a one-night stand turns Ajay into a vampire, he decides misery really does love company and tries to suck his friends Teague and Floor into a life of bloodlust.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Exploited (2022)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his school issued laptop, a webcam model whose last session may have ended in murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Darkness (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, crying, psychotronic
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The Telling (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this horror anthology film, three girls pledge the most popular - and cruelest - sorority on campus. For their final task, they must tell the scariest story they know. Containing three distinct stories - one featuring a murderous doll, one a has-been actress and her run in with a film crew of the undead and, finally, a hunt-and-kill fright-fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, independent film, surprise ending, campy
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The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, scary, surprise ending, tense, suspense, captivating, melancholic, erotic, queer horror
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Rebound (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman finds the love of her life cheating on her, she has a mental break while travelling across country and encounters hostile strangers and debilitating anxiety along the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, rough, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary
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Eternal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, offbeat, sexual, detective, sexy
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Alpha Delta Zatan (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alpha Delta Zatan is set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a frat house, the film follows the increased paranoia between members of a fraternity as they start to disappear at the hands of a masked killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, slasher horror, queer cinema
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Death Ranch (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, the three must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brutal (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a small town, a serial killer mutilates the bodies of his victims and leaves a flower on the corpses. The sheriff and his wife/deputy investigate the murders while trying to keep from alarming the citizens. They team up with an autistic hound dog trainer to try to track the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, detective, slasher, spoof, parody
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The Beast Kills in Cold Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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A Siren in the Dark (2009)
Plot Summary:
Cameron, a Police Officer with psychic abilities, is called upon to interview an accused teen in hopes of finding the whereabouts of the teen's missing gay lover. His investigation immediately spirals into sordid tales of drug abuse, sexual obsessions, and a mysterious man living on a deserted mountain road.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, sexual, lgbt cinema, crying, freeze frame, sexy
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The Bushwhacker (1968)
Plot Summary:
A crazy mountain-man shoots down a small passenger plane. He then proceeds to stalk, torture and kill the survivors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, biting, slasher
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Against The Night (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Satanic Pandemonium (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, sensual, cult classic, queer horror, gothic, disturbing, rough
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Luz (2018)
Plot Summary:
A rainy night. Dazed and numb, Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. In a nightspot, Nora seductively engages police psychiatrist Dr. Rossini in a conversation. Nora tells the Doctor about her old schoolmate Luz’ rebellious past at a Chilean school for girls. Nora is possessed by a demonic entity, longing for the woman it loves - Luz.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: art house, suspenseful, twist ending, bleak, psychological thriller, atmospheric, experimental, surreal, absurd, detective
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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
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From Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense, gothic horror, serious, twist ending, psychological