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Plot Summary:
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Child of Satan (2016)
Plot Summary:
New mom battles the evil lurking within as her adulterous husband hides a dark secret that may lead to the human extinction. After a freak accident during her baby shower, Allison, a dedicated nurse, is rushed to the hospital. After the premature birth of her son Neron, strange events emerge: illusions, vivid dreams, and unexplained killings. The events are linked back to Neron as Allison is taken by sudden premonitions that reveal the victims of her son's next choice.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Legacy of Satan (1974)
Plot Summary:
A satanic cult chooses an unwitting young girl as its new queen.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 75%
The Mask (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, gothic horror, lovecraft, bizarre
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The Dead Don't Die (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, psychotronic, weird
Similar in 86%
Cruise Into Terror (1978)
Plot Summary:
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Evil Stalks This House (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jack Palance stars as a self-serving, abusive boor who becomes stranded (along with his two children) by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country estate owned by a group of mysterious and wealthy old dowagers. Seeing a golden opportunity, Palance soon turns to plundering their estate, but his plans collide with the secret activities of a Satanic snake-cult who carry out ritual sacrifices in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Lord Shango (1975)
Plot Summary:
A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Spectre (1977)
Plot Summary:
Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian's debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: satanic, detective, psychotronic
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Santo Attacks the Witches (1968)
Plot Summary:
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn't know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Curandero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, suspense, perverse, psychotronic
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Plot Summary:
After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Beyond the Door (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, demonic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, slasher, gothic horror, mystic
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Midnight (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl runs away from home because police officer/stepfather puts the moves on her. Hitchhiking to California, she's picked up by two guys who are also traveling cross-country. Along the way, they decide to camp out in the woods and run across a family of Satanists who keep their dead mother in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, pastoral, psychotronic, independent film, satanic, demonic, cult film
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The Covenant (1985)
Plot Summary:
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tv series pilot
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Moonchild (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young artists spends the night at a mysterious inn, where he meets a group of strange, sullen people, among them the innkeeper's beautiful daughter. What he doesn't know is that he has wandered into a kind of spiritual void, and the inn's residents are engaging in a battle over his soul.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spiritual, independent film, scary, serious, psychotronic
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The Binding (2020)
Plot Summary:
While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, atmospheric
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The Premonition (1975)
Plot Summary:
This Thriller/horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother will take her away from her beloved foster mother. One day, the crazed real mother attempts to contact the girl at school, but her foster mother has a premonition and gets there in time to protect the girl. Eventually though, the real mother and her boy friend, a carnival clown, succeed and takes her away, leaving the bereaved foster parents to enlist the assistance of a parapsychologist to help them interpret the foster mother's terrifying dreams and psychic connection to the girl and find her before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Lovers of the Lord of the Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: religious horror, satanic, psychotronic
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House of Forbidden Secrets (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Hunt has had some very bad breaks in life. His wife left him, his friends have all abandoned him, and his children barely see him! Jacob has been given an amazing gift and the chance he needs to get back on his feet and start anew. Jacob has landed the job of overnight security officer at the old ShadowView Manor. It has now been turned into a commercial office and retail building. Jacob is about to learn nights around the old Manor contains many secrets. A dark past that is breaking through the boundaries of time, leaking into this dimension. As luck would have it, Jacob's first night on the job is the anniversary of a dark tragedy that has stained the building.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, satanic
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The Old Ways (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Flight 7500 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychedelic, psychological, mind blowing, independent film, twisted
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The Echo Game (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by terrible acts the Nazis forced him to participate in, the disenchanted Father Lankester Merrin focuses his energies on helping with an archaeological dig in the northern part of Kenya. There, the crew uncovers a church that predates Christian missions into the area, but the discovery also causes strange events to start occurring -- including physical changes to a young, disabled boy, whom Merrin grows to suspect has been possessed by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, psychological, rough, bleak, religious horror, satanic
Similar in 84%
Medusa (2015)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated mythology professor finds an evil witch doctor who summons the spirit of the gorgon Medusa.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Demonic (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, demonic, grindhouse, disgusting, bleak
Similar in 88%
The Sender (1982)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, surreal, clever, psychedelic, cult classic
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, suspense, dark, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, scary, cerebral
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Firestarter (2022)
Plot Summary:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, action adventure, surprise ending, neo noir, dark fantasy, crying, psychotronic, weird
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, suspense, psychological, satanic, gothic, dark, creepy