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Plot Summary:
It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past and present begin to blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson on history one can't find in books.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bleed (2016)
Plot Summary:
It seemed perfect - a new house, a new marriage, a child soon to be born. But when Sarah and Matt invite their friends to celebrate, the situation turns deadly as they enter a burned-out prison on a ghost hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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The Devil Within (2016)
Plot Summary:
In November 2012 Rachel Kusza and her team of film makers travelled to Transylvania to document the Baciu forest. A forest with a dark history of strange occurrences, ghost sightings and countless cases of missing people. The film crew were never heard from again. After searching for the film crew for two years Howard Redman, Rachels teacher, found the crews camera buried in the snow.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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American Poltergeist (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends move into a vacation home with a sinister past in Fall River, Massachusetts. Suspicious of the home's owner, Taryn feels a strong connection to the house and finds herself at the center of one of the most deadly poltergeists in American history.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, suspense
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A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Apparition (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns that he is not alone in this quaint home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, teen horror
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Witch Graveyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four travelers innocently decide to rest in a wooded area off an old freeway. Unbeknown to them, they are at an old abandoned and haunted cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dark Image (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Palace of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following in the footsteps of her late fiancée, who drowned under mysterious circumstances, Rebecca (played by Katie Savoy) and her film crew are in China making a documentary about the Chinese Ghost Festival. There, she learns of a story about a concubine Chan Ju Chi who is violently murdered and thrown into a well by the head concubine Ping Wei (Played by JuJu Chan) within the secret grounds of a palace. Legend has it that the Chan Ju Chi has risen to become a "jiangshi", killing innocent people in the hope of taking over their bodies. Things take a turn when a worker is attacked in a decrepit well within an old palace. Rebecca tries to piece together the mystery behind the legend as one by one the people she knows are gruesomely murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shutter (2017)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural stalker pursues a super model to steal her soul with his demonic camera.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Invited (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided there for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Demon Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marta used to be a recognized and successful psychic, but after a dramatic experience, she loses faith in her gift and develops agoraphobia. She couldn't see the devilish side of her rapper, Mario, and now, Marta is afraid that Mario will stalk her again. As soon as she released from the asylum, she moves to Monica's uncle apartment. There, she feels safe. But soon, she has trouble with her crazy neighbors. And if this wasn't enough, a spectrum starts to haunt her, making her life impossible. Marta will have to fight against all these difficulties and manage to get her gift back before Mario finds her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Out of the Shadows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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I Know You're in There (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Along Came the Devil 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, 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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Bloody Ballet (2018)
Plot Summary:
When beautiful ballerina dancer Adriana Mena lands the lead role in the upcoming Nutcracker performance, she's forced to face her demons as jealousy and tension begin to provoke the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Anomalous (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, thrilling
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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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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
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Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vine, a disillusioned demon, is forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl. Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is destroyed. The demon population must rise up and take all necessary steps for survival or their species will cease to exist. The battle for the Earth has begun. Vine, a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl, the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
A collection of gut-twisting and nerve-shredding tales, all Frankstein’d together to form a feature-length monster of the best and bloodiest in short-film horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Terrible Two (2018)
Plot Summary:
Albert and Rose Poe bought their dream house seven years ago in Greenfield, NC. They had no idea of the unspeakable horrors that took place in the house before they moved in. If they had known, then their children, Addi and Jade would still be alive. Instead the Poes now find themselves imprisoned in the house they thought was their safe place, and battling their two daughters for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Diary of an Exorcist - Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lucas devotes his life to church work after a tragedy. When an exorcism case gets out of control, he has to figure out who is under the Devil's influence.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A House Is Not a Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben (Webb) and Linda Williams move the family into a dream home in a last ditch effort to save their troubled marriage. Despite their good intentions, they cannot shake the feeling that they are being watched by something. Their unimaginable fears are realized when things inside the house take a supernatural and sinister turn. Ben and his family flee for their lives, but it is too late. The house isn't finished with them, trapping the family in its labyrinth. The Williams must come together as never before to fight for their family, their lives and to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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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