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Plot Summary:
On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running starts being murdered by a crazed killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, slasher horror, weird
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Exit (2020)
Plot Summary:
Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and not all debts are paid for with money. Leaving, it's harder than you think.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, neo noir, surreal
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The Shelter (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a star-filled night, homeless Thomas seeks warm shelter. Still grieving his late wife, ruined and desperate, he comes across a vast house with the lights on and an inviting open front door. But the next morning, the premises will not let him leave. Destiny has brought Thomas to this place and now he must survive a very personal ordeal. For what appeared a safe haven turns out to be something far more malevolent. From Arrow in The Head blogger, writer and director John Fallon, a psychological horror show tapping into fears of the mind, body and soul.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, mysterious
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Dead End (2012)
Plot Summary:
Carl Foster takes off on a well-deserved weekend break with his family knowing only too well that focus on work has impacted his relationship with his wife, young son, and teenage step-daughter. But after a short but restful break in the journey Carl awakens to find himself tied and bound in an old roadside diner, his family trussed and gagged next to him, and a disparate group of dirty, disheveled, vagrant-like undesirables keeping them captive. Only time will reveal who they are and what they want, but things are not everything they might seem.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Babysitter Must Die (2020)
Plot Summary:
Members of a cult invade the home of a wealthy family, but they didn't count on a resourceful babysitter who's armed with a variety of weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, christmas horror
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Invoked (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people went on a abandoned hostel in Sligo, Ireland. After they play a really creepy game, all of them disappear.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Strip Mahjong: Battle Royale (2011)
Plot Summary:
A handful of mysterious Japanese women take part in a deranged web show that makes them strip off their clothes when they lose a round of Mahjong. When there is nothing left to hide, secrets are revealed and they must take their punishment.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dangerous People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous People takes place in the early 1970's and is about two murders who pick up a girl in a bar and then take her back to their apartment. A moment of brutal violence occurs which leads to a series of mind games to see who lives and who dies. Dangerous People is psychedelic trip that is equal parts crazy, scary, sexy, funny, sick and tragic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Save Yourself (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five female filmmakers en route to screen their new horror film in Los Angeles, experience their own real life terror when they cross paths with deranged scientist hellbent on using them for his twisted experiments.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, psychotronic
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X Game 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
High school girl and four other people were forced to play a X-game to take responsibility for what they did in the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic
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Kill (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six strangers awake to find themselves the new tenants of a mysterious old house. Terrorized by insane Tiki-men in masks and taunted by their deranged captors,it soon becomes clear that only one singular action will save them: Kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The White Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
A camping trip for a group of friends turns into an unexpected nightmare when one of them encounters a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Suspension (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and her bullying peers are terrorized by an escaped psychotic killer who is more than meets the eye. The Night Daddy Came Home! Tormented at high school, Emily Hanson’s only escape is drawing graphic sketches depicting a crazed masked killer on a bloody rampage. Except the deranged maniac is her father who snapped eight years ago and is now locked away in a mental institution where Emily’s bullying classmates taunt she should be too. On the anniversary of his massacre, the In Crowd throw a party while Emily babysits her mute little brother. Little does she know she’s in for a night of unrelenting terror and madness, forced to confront her demons once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
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Prom Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the school year for a group of high school friends. Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, he is determined to have them Dead On Arrival. The teens are tortured while being held hostage, and soon turn on each other for survival. By the end, we learn that one of the teens had been keeping a secret that played a bigger role in their demise.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Phobias (2021)
Plot Summary:
Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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American Hunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is torn apart when they become part of two human hunter's sick game. The men give them ten minutes to hide, and then the real hunt begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Terror Nation (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a criminal gang botch a heist they find themselves drawn into a terrifying government conspiracy to cull the population.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blackburn Asylum (2015)
Plot Summary:
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Besetment (2017)
Plot Summary:
After struggling to find employment, Amanda takes a hotel position in a small town where she ends up fighting for her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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BnB HELL (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's hunt for her missing sister ends at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Disturbing messages left by former guests suggest unsettling secrets lay buried there.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, brutal, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Incision (2020)
Plot Summary:
Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham. A deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Plot Summary:
Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, perverse, slasher horror, corny
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James St. James Presents Avantgarde (2010)
Plot Summary:
High Society darling and world famous fashion designer Donna Sciavelli knows no boundaries when it comes to new ways of extending her own fame through pleasing her spoiled clients with new "groundbreaking shows, ideas and creations" and New York's high society follows her blindly - not willing or not capable of realizing the true extent of Donna's self staging frenzy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, slasher, erotic
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Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer (2017)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find themselves trapped in a deadly game to the death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Anonymous Killers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Game of Death (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one's head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, splatter, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, awful
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Odds Are (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Werewolf Game: Inferno (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hiromi Nonoyama is a 2nd grade high school student. She finds herself confined in a strange place with nine of her classmates. They are forced to take part in a game that risks their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Signal 100 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Death Tube 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to the exciting terror film! 'Death Tube,' the website where murders are streamed live in real time, is back online with a new generation of challengers / victims! Who will escape and what will be left of them? The real killer is about to be revealed! A new crop of contestants turn up to participate in a vicious game of life or death, broadcast live over the internet for all the world to see.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, cyber
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Saw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, disturbing, psychological thriller, mind bending, clever, splatter