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Plot Summary:
On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, dark, art house
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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Home for the Holidays (1972)
Plot Summary:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, suspense, spooky, crime thriller, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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The Boom Boom Girls of Wrestling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Six female athletic actresses who gets cast for being superhero's on a wrestling show. After hard training and ups and down's in the gym, the fresh wrestlers board the bus to their first fight in Las VegasS. The bus get stuck in the middle of nowhere, and the girls end up in a Ghost town together. They must survive and discover the truth behind the Ghost town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, queer horror, independent film
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Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Simms returns to tell more eerie, unsettling tales involving dolls, psychics, possession and ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, hood, spooky
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Roadside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dan Summers and his pregnant wife, Mindy, fight for their lives when they are held hostage in their car by an unseen gunman on the side of a desolate mountain road.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Beyond the Woods (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gathering of friends is thrown into chaos by the opening of a mysterious fiery sinkhole near their secluded holiday home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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A Dark Foe (2020)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Spain
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, creepy
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The Lucifer Killings (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hunt for one of the most prolific serial killer begins.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, serious, realistic
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iMurders (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, cyber, rough, realistic, independent film
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Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Lake Alice (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last….
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, slasher, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
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I-Lived (2015)
Plot Summary:
Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone... but essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Thrill Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three seemingly normal teenagers commit a heinous murder for the sheer excitement of the act & their master ploy slowly crumbles to pieces... Thrill Kill is a dark, suspenseful tale which explores the cynical relationship between three lost teenagers left drifting alone in a foreclosed corner of Small Town America feeding on booze, pop culture, drugs, violent video games & plotting the unthinkable... a gruesome murder for the thrill of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Init!ation (2020)
Plot Summary:
Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bloody, dark, independent film, weird
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' vengeful brother. But when they find the lost journal of Jeffrey Butler, they discover the town has its own sordid history - one more rooted in reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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To All a Goodnight (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples one by one. The police show up and promise to keep everyone safe, but they prove ineffectual against the crazed psycho. Could the killings have anything to do with the girl who was killed in an initiation stunt at the school a few years earlier?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, bleak, bloody, suspenseful, independent film, slasher horror
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Mrs. Claus (2018)
Plot Summary:
Students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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#Horror (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, captivating, suspense, cyber, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, grindhouse, slasher horror
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The Beautiful Ones (2017)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Quarries (2016)
Plot Summary:
To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, forcing each one to discover the strength within themselves that they didn't even know they possessed. While being brazenly chased by a pack of predators, the strong quickly set themselves apart from the weak. In a battle of will, stamina, and heart, these very virtues present themselves at the most crucial moment. With death looming, each is left with what is truly important - the strength within oneself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, slasher
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Psycho BFF (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away together. Renee embarks on a desperate search for her daughter, before she's gone for good.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
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Valley of Ditches (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman bound in the front seat of a parked car watches helpless as her captor methodically digs a grave in the desert ground. The bloody lifeless body of her boyfriend lies framed in the rear-view mirror, a fate she will fight at all costs to avoid for herself. But this is only the beginning of a brutal struggle where survival could be worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspense
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Dismembering Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
At a vacation winter lake house, seven high school seniors are attacked by a madman out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, bloody, independent film
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I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller, scary, thought provoking, christmas horror
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Aaron's Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
Single father Aaron fights to save his 12-year-old hemophiliac son after becoming infected with vampire blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood and Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending
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Alone (2020)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, dark, scary, art house, disturbing, biting