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Plot Summary:
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
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The Free Fall (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, black and white
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Land of Smiles (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the object of a sociopath's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Austria, Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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*69 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, uncovers that these events are somehow linked to her past. Now, she must find a way to unlock the truth that is buried deep within in order to put an end to the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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One of Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Rattlesnake (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychological, splatter, weird
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The Accursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Reaptown (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this supernatural horror film, Carrie Baldwin is freed from prison under the conditions of a work-release program in Reaptown, Nevada. As she struggles to find her missing sister while working the night shift as a security guard for the Reaptown Railway Museum, Carrie soon finds herself in the presence of evil. Could the Railway hold the clues to her sister's mysterious disappearance?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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House of the Disappeared (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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Twinsanity (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of their mother, an identical twin pulls away to establish her own independence, while the other unravels and plots to end her sister’s new beginning. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Possession (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young family is forced to relocate to the husband's childhood home and believe they are being terrorized by the ghost of the grandfather who committed suicide there only to find out they are horrifyingly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, light
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Eat Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of one torturous night, a suicidal woman and the violent home intruder that saved her life test the limits of human endurance and the boundaries of forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Vicious (2019)
Plot Summary:
A girls weekend in a remote cottage in the Ardennes. Relationships are put into focus - do the four girls know everything about each other? The filming of the 'best youth book' of 2012 written by Mel Wallis de Vries.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Shattering (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aftermath (2021)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal to move into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the house's troubled history.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, scary, psychological thriller
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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
Plot Summary:
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore, weird
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Those Who Walk Away (2022)
Plot Summary:
Max and Avery go on their first date after meeting on a social media app. Their evening takes a perilous turn when they end up at a local haunted house, the home of ‘Rotcreep’, a sinister creature that rots your body and soul with one touch.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller
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Beckoning the Butcher (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beckoning the Butcher explores the night Chris Shaw and his four friends summoned a spirit into their holiday house - then disappeared forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller
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Twin Betrayal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A struggling single mother, in the midst of a fierce custody battle, is framed for the murder of her wealthy father by her ambitious identical twin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Next Stop Murder (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman discusses her family problems with a stranger she meets on a bus, but is horrified when her confidante suggests each of them kill the person making the other's life difficult.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, disturbing
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The Deep House (2021)
Plot Summary:
While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the house was the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously, they realize the worst is yet to come: they are not alone in the house.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, slasher, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, atmospheric, grindhouse
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Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
He’s one of the hardest working filmmakers in the genre business.......So what’s HATCHET man Adam Green been up to this past year apart from working on his sit-com ‘Holliston’, writing KILLER PIZZA and prepping EXORCISM ON CROOKED LAKE? The answer is this documentary starting out exploring genre-based monster art and then taking an odd turn into the blurring of fantasy and reality. Because halfway through producing this treatise with cinematographer Will Barratt at his L.A. ArieScope Pictures offices, they are contacted by former policeman William Dekker who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. That they live in world just below our own named The Marrow and he knows where one of the entrances to this dark hidden universe is. Green of course is intrigued and so the monster hunting expedition begins… to become something else far more frightening than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, scary
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Abandoned (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror
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Population Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities never found the murderer. He found them! Hours after the trio were gunned down, Dwayne Nelson confessed to the crime. Despite this Nelson was allowed to go free because of an American Constitution loophole. Documentarian Julian T. Pinder travels to Yellowstone in a compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder risks his own life when he finds evidence that could re-open the case years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mockumentary, fake documentary
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April, May and June (2019)
Plot Summary:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Barracuda (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy brought Sinaloa to Austin, she won't leave without taking revenge against the people who stole her daddy away years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pyewacket (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, demonic, post-horror, captivating, psychological, surprise ending, atmospheric, intellectual
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Always Shine (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, mumblecore, disturbing, unusual plot structure, contemplative, stylized, twisted, weird
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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