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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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Playroom (1990)
Plot Summary:
An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending, lovecraft, cult film
Similar in 86%
Skullduggery (1983)
Plot Summary:
Adam is cursed: one of his ancestors played a game and fell victim to a sorcerer or possibly Satan. The curse manifests through Adam and the game, making him attend strange amateur theatre where immensely talentless people try to do farce and a janitor wanders around with a game of Tic-Tac-Toe on his back.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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The Night Child (1975)
Plot Summary:
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, classic horror, terrifying, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
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 76%
Daughter of the Mind (1969)
Plot Summary:
A professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld. |.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Kesurupan (2008)
Plot Summary:
A College Teen Gets Possessed By Three Satanic Spirits After Retrieving A Mysterious Odd Doll,With The Help Of Her Two Friends They Must Race Against Time In Order Of What Is Something Sinister Happening To Her Before Time Runs Out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, bleak, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Residue (2017)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, retro, lovecraft
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Sledgehammer (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Funeral Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, sad, gothic horror, creepy, classic horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric
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What Josiah Saw (2021)
Plot Summary:
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, psychological horror, gothic horror
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Asylum of Darkness (2017)
Plot Summary:
After awakening in a mental asylum, a patient plans an escape to freedom, but finds an even more disturbing, supernatural world on the outside, one that threatens to keep him trapped in madness forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Ghoul (1975)
Plot Summary:
A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, odd
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Cathy's Curse (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, cult film
Similar in 82%
Glimpse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a curse that now haunts him and only can be broken in one special way. But the more he learns about his former Japanese girlfriends family, the more he learns about his own family ... And one tragedy rarely comes alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Conjurer (2008)
Plot Summary:
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who once lived there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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The Skull (1965)
Plot Summary:
A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, mind bending, psychedelic, gothic, suspense, slasher, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Shades (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two U.S. ecologists travel to a remote town in South America to investigate what appears to be unnatural decay of the environment. They soon discover the cause is a horrific curse that's been haunting the lands for centuries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic
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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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Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. Sam Loomis once treated unstoppable killer Michael Myers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Blazing World (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Darker than Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Housewife (2017)
Plot Summary:
Housewife is centered on Holly whose mother murdered her sister and father when she was seven. 20 years later and slowly losing her grip on the difference between reality and nightmares, she runs into a celebrity psychic who claims that he is destined to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, lovecraft, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, surreal, disturbing
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The Incubus (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, demonic
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, natural horror, serious
Similar in 83%
Husk (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, dark, creepy, bleak, disturbing, psychological, entertaining, bloody
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The Lords of Salem (2012)
Plot Summary:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, surreal, satanic, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, art house, bleak, grindhouse
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Curtains (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher horror, retro, bloody, psychotronic