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Plot Summary:
Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film
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Perfect Skin (2018)
Plot Summary:
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological horror
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Murder Me, Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rural police officer Cruz investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body found in a remote region by the Andes Mountains. David, the husband of Cruz's lover Francisca, becomes the prime suspect and is sent to a local mental hospital. David blames the crime to the inexplicable and brutal appearance of the "Monster." Cruz stumbles on a mysterious theory involving geometric landscapes, mountain motorcyclists and a mantra stuck in his head: Murder Me, Monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Chile
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft
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The Torturer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rick (Andrew W. Walker) is a man raised with solid American values, who was trained as a "special interrogator" in Iraq. He does and experiences things there that cause him PTSD. When he is debriefed by a therapist (Doc), strange things begin to be revealed, and as the creepiness factor starts to rise we realize that all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, slasher, captivating, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cold Sweat (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. An unconditional friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside await two brutal murderers, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives that were lost since the last military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, rough
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Whispers (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, disturbing, twisted
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Piggy (2022)
Plot Summary:
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, suspense, disturbing, splatter, slasher horror
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The New Kids (1985)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, tense, rough, captivating, retro, christmas horror, perverse, psychological, serious
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, rough, bloody, suspense, terrifying, scary, surprise ending
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Party Hard, Die Young (2018)
Plot Summary:
Julia and her friends, celebrating their high school graduation in Croatia, find themselves the targets of a masked killer who begins picking them off, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, teen horror
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Darkroom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, slasher, serious, realistic
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Mum & Dad (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, brutal, disturbing, controversial, twisted, bloody, splatter, frightening, sadistic
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Exhibit A (2007)
Plot Summary:
Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy (Bradley Cole) is nursing a secret that ultimately leads to terrible consequences for them all. We witness these chilling events unfold through daughter Judith's video camera, which subsequently becomes Exhibit A.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, depressing, disturbing, controversial
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John and the Hole (2021)
Plot Summary:
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, mindfuck, independent film, psychological thriller, weird
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Basement (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary, offbeat, serious
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A Teacher's Obsession (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high-school English teacher becomes dangerously obsessed with a star athlete who needs academic help.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
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Black Circle Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, realistic
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Gut (2012)
Plot Summary:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, controversial, scary, realistic
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, rough, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, depressing, splatter
Similar in 88%
Summer Scars (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, tension
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The Thompsons (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, psychological, gothic, dark
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, cult classic, scary, realistic, dark
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Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
High school teacher Mary Stauffer and her eight-year old daughter, Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Dread (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, surprise ending, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, suspense, slasher
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Clownface (2019)
Plot Summary:
A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an eerie voice of someone outside of the room. Throughout, they use their minds to try to think as to why they are there. As time elapses the stakes and chances for survival are slim, but the question remains: who is behind this - the end reveals a startling answer.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)
Plot Summary:
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher
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#SquadGoals (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious high school senior Samantha Hodges is a serious journalist, both for the school paper and for the yearbook, but she's just as serious about her friends, Nate, Gillian, and Rudy, all of whom are vying with her for a full-ride local scholarship to college. Very close to her mother, Emily, who is the school's guidance counselor, Samantha finds her reporting taking an investigative turn when two of her classmates--and contenders for the scholarship--are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense
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Axed (2012)
Plot Summary:
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological, scary, realistic, black comedy
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Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, psychedelic, slasher