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Plot Summary:
Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road...for over 35 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, retro, surprise ending, mind bending, realistic, cerebral
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Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Devil's Tail (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young nurse begins her shift at an old city hospital. After a strange apparition one of the oldest nurse tells her that a patient, Mr. Moore, entered the hospital a few years ago. His body was completely burned after a fire. Mr. Moore was operated urgently by the doctors. But no one wanted to assist him. The pain and drugs had driven him mad... One night one of the nurses went to his room but his bed was empty ... Nothing was heard from him anymore. A bell interrupts the story. The call comes from Mr. Moore´s room….
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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Blood Punch (2014)
Plot Summary:
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: absurd, horror comedy, brutal, feel good, bloody, surreal, mind bending, dark comedy, psychological horror, perverse
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The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Plot Summary:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Z (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, disturbing, bleak, tense, scary, suspenseful, splatter, spooky, exciting
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Sijjin 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. And this beings don't want anyone in the house, but Saadet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Watcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and that someone -- or something -- is determined to drive them out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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The 8th Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, dark fantasy, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, perverse, mystical, scary
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Lightning Strikes (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rural sheriff (Kevin Sorbo) faces a seemingly impossible battle when he is forced to defend his small town from a demon riding bolts of lightning and causing mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ghosts of the Ozarks (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Block Island Sound (2020)
Plot Summary:
What’s controlling the town on Block Island? There’s a force lurking off the coast and the wildlife and people are all behaving strangely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, lovecraft, weird
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The Unlit (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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Don't Let Go (2019)
Plot Summary:
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, dark, twist ending, spooky, twisted
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Alien Strain (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a camping trip, Matthew's girlfriend Rachel was abducted by a UFO. A year later Rachel returns to the very spot from which she was taken but the creature she has become has Matthew fearing for his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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The Similars (2015)
Plot Summary:
A science fiction thriller that takes place in 1968's Mexico and deals with identity in a metaphorical way, as the plot involves a mysterious condition that makes all persons locked inside a bus station on a rainy night to adopt the same face and features.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, mind bending, clever, psychedelic
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Come Play With Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, an insecure young woman, begins babysitting two troublesome siblings that turn her job into a complete living hell. That is until a devilish presence starts messing with the trio and they must band together to fight the demon away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Radius (2017)
Plot Summary:
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, mystical, surprise ending, disturbing, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, mystic
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The Wailer 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a cult of old witch ladies, he embarks on a mission to exorcise the body of Julie from the evil soul of La Llorona.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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The Advent Calendar (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad... Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again… even if it causes death around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, suspenseful, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, weird
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Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is an ancient ritual known to humankind for more than a hundred years...According to the legend, an ominous entity known as The Queen of Spades can be summoned by drawing a door and staircase on a mirror in the darkness, and by saying her name three times. The Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects; she cuts locks of hair from those asleep, and those that see her go mad or die. Four teenagers decide to call The Queen of Spades as a joke. But when one of them dies of a sudden heart attack, the group realizes they are up against something inexplicable and deadly dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mystical, disturbing, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak
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Dark Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological, twist ending, tense, creepy, tricky, disturbing, intense
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Hidden (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, surprise ending, tricky, apocalyptic, splatter, creepy
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Timecrimes (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, cerebral, mindfuck, tricky, confusing, mind twisting
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Time Lapse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, cerebral, clever, confusing, mindfuck, enigmatic
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Coherence (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, mind blowing, suspenseful, tense, confusing, mindfuck, suspense, serious, intellectual
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Triangle (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, mindfuck, confusing, cerebral, atmospheric
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Dead End (2003)
Plot Summary:
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, tense, christmas horror, surprise ending, scary, atmospheric, clever, disturbing