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Plot Summary:
When a mysterious animal attack leaves a mutilated body in the forest, a conservative small town detective must enlist the help of an eager wildlife specialist to uncover the dark and disturbing truth that threatens the town.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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Agoraphobia (2015)
Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic inherits her father's house in a remote part of the Florida Keys. When weird things start happening, she discovers that there's something far more terrifying trapped inside the house with her.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disturbing, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tense
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Among the Shadows (2019)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator must unravel the murder of her uncle while keeping the secret that she is a descendant from a line of werewolves.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, dark, detective, psychological, psychotronic
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Shadows of the Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers try to escape a creature that lives among the shadows and is hunting them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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Uncaged (2016)
Plot Summary:
After nights of sleepwalking, a troubled teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror comedy
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The Last Exit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Darren and Jodi are in the middle-of-nowhere Maine on their way to a funeral. The reason they never make it is simple: werewolves. As other wayward travelers end up in their own battles for life, a suspected killer with a werewolf-sized chip on his shoulder is hunting the beast. It takes a couple of kids, some drunken hunters, and an urbanite from California to confront the legend and decide who or what is responsible for the carnage.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Viking Wolf (2022)
Plot Summary:
Thale (17) has just moved with her parents to a small town after her mother has a new job in the local police. After a student is killed brutally at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Re-Cut (2010)
Plot Summary:
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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Dogman (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hanklin Purvis enjoys the outdoors, and he loves to hunt. He and his wife, Dorothy, live on a farm in the rural mid-west. For some reason, during the season before autumn, things start happening. The first victims are family pets, then wild animals. But it's not until people are injured that the police get involved. The attacker is not human, that's for sure and it needs to be stopped. Then they discover that the wounds have a deadly bacteria and the clock is ticking for those infected. Enter Hanklin's neighbor, Francis Wellman, a Native American who believes she has discovered an ancient antidote. And will they ever find the perpetrator of these horrifying attacks? They do.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Playdate (2012)
Plot Summary:
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Baphomet (2021)
Plot Summary:
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hunter Hunter (2020)
Plot Summary:
Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers but their tranquility starts to be threatened when they think are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf and Joseph leaves them behind to track it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, enigmatic, dark, disturbing, powerful, weird
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Deadly Revisions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Wraith (2022)
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Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Hunter's Moon (2020)
Plot Summary:
A trio of young sisters are attacked by local thugs. Then a force inhabiting the orchard exacts its revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cryptid (2022)
Plot Summary:
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bonehill Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young couple become stranded in the woods where they encounter a werewolf and a house of horrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic
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Dark Was the Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods. Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods, strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bleak, spooky, captivating, atmospheric, mysterious, suspenseful, detective, grindhouse
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Curse of the Nun (2019)
Plot Summary:
A damaged young woman is looking forward to moving to a beautiful new home, but the spirit of a deranged nun wants her to stay right where she is.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bleak, rough, dark, psychotronic
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Spectres (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college friends on a weekend trip to the back woods of Kentucky trespass through an Native American burial ground, they unwittingly unleash the wrath of an ancient evil. As they experience increasing levels of peril and hauntings, they discover there is a place where technology and evil cross paths, and both are more than deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dead Center (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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Werewolves Within (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, horror comedy, scary, bleak, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, funny
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Wolfhound (2002)
Plot Summary:
Colum Kennedy went with his family to an Irish village to visit the places of origin of their ancestors. Once he arrived in the village realizes that the community is populated by beastly shape-shifting beings able to transform into animals. Colum begins to feel an intense passion for a woman who can transform into a wolf and must make a choice: return to his family and bring her home or to give in to temptation.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sexploitation film
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I Am Lisa (2020)
Plot Summary:
A vicious and corrupt small-town sheriff and her deputies brutalise Lisa and leave her for dead in the nearby woods. There she is bitten by a werewolf and bestowed with supernatural abilities. Can Lisa retain her humanity as she exacts revenge and cedes herself more and more to the wolf side of her personality?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sadistic
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Scream of the Wolf (1974)
Plot Summary:
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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The Monster Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, surprise ending, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Body Cam (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cops involved with covering up a murder by getting rid of their body cam video footage find themselves haunted by an evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective, perverse
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Dawn of the Beast (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Slender Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bad ending, suspense, psychological, psychotronic, dark, slasher, demonic, spooky, thrilling
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Bad Moon (1996)
Plot Summary:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, retro, psychological horror, creepy, classic horror, serious