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Plot Summary:
Young Noa and Michael are put in the care of their new nanny, Leonor, who Noa suspects is a malicious supernatural being. Dismissed by those around her, Noa works to uncover Leonor's true identity, but soon finds herself with far more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, spooky
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The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing, dark, road movie
Similar in 75%
Blood Child (2017)
Plot Summary:
Blood Child is horror thriller based on a true story. Bill and Ashely DiAngelo seem to have it all, an overseas posting to Singapore, life in paradise and a new baby on the way. But tragedy strikes when she loses the baby and sinks into a deep depression. Unbeknownst to Bill, Ashley decides that the only way for her to "be" with her miscarried child is to dabble in the South East Asian occult practice of raising her own "ghost child". She seeks the help of her Indonesian maid, Siti, tasking her to find a bomoh (witch doctor) who knows how to trap the spirit of unborn dead fetuses. Siti tries to dissuade Ashley from resorting to such dark magic but to no avail. In the meantime, in an effort to put the tragic events of the miscarriage behind them, Bill decides that it would be good for the couple to return home to Minnesota to start their lives over. Several months after their return to the US, Ashley and Bill are surprised to find themselves pregnant again.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Don't Sleep (2017)
Plot Summary:
After Moving into a Cottage Together, two Young Lovers confront Horrors of a Forgotten Childhood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
The Changeover (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura Chant. 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic
Similar in 77%
The Tag-Along 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
When social worker Shu-fen discovers that her pregnant teenage daughter Ya-ting has disappeared, her search for Ya-ting ends her with many horrifying mysteries… Meeting the mysterious Mei-hua who imprisons her own daughter inside her house covered with papers written with spells and encountering the missing and pregnant Yi-chun in an abandoned hospital, the trio returns to the Red Forest to rescue Ya-ting and Shu-fen finally realizes that the deepest fear arises from love….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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True Fiction (2019)
Plot Summary:
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, dark
Similar in 78%
Apparition (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns that he is not alone in this quaint home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Slapface (2021)
Plot Summary:
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, psychological horror, spooky, independent film
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Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Come Play With Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, an insecure young woman, begins babysitting two troublesome siblings that turn her job into a complete living hell. That is until a devilish presence starts messing with the trio and they must band together to fight the demon away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vine, a disillusioned demon, is forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl. Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is destroyed. The demon population must rise up and take all necessary steps for survival or their species will cease to exist. The battle for the Earth has begun. Vine, a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl, the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ideal (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past and present begin to blur together so do sanity and madness, and Mr. Zenidro draws them into a lesson on history one can't find in books.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Don't Look Back (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman overcoming her traumatic past is among several witnesses who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018)
Plot Summary:
When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, atmospheric, bleak, surprise ending, folk tale
Similar in 79%
Hold Your Breath (2012)
Plot Summary:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
Day 13 (2020)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Colton is left at home to babysit his little sister for the summer, he develops a crush on Heather, the beautiful girl who just moved into a mysterious old house across the street. He falls in love with her from afar — but also witnesses her foster father grow increasingly threatening towards her. When Colton suspects the man belongs to a Satanic cult, and is preparing to ritually murder her, he resorts to desperate measures to intervene, and learns that the truth of the situation is more horrifying than anything he had ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Cryptid (2022)
Plot Summary:
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
A House Is Not a Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben (Webb) and Linda Williams move the family into a dream home in a last ditch effort to save their troubled marriage. Despite their good intentions, they cannot shake the feeling that they are being watched by something. Their unimaginable fears are realized when things inside the house take a supernatural and sinister turn. Ben and his family flee for their lives, but it is too late. The house isn't finished with them, trapping the family in its labyrinth. The Williams must come together as never before to fight for their family, their lives and to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 81%
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 82%
Evil Takes Root (2020)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
The Blackout Experiment (2021)
Plot Summary:
Six strangers wake up in a room full of weapons. If they do not kill each other, someone they care about will die.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, experimental, disturbing, psychotronic
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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, tense, mockumentary, weird
Similar in 84%
The Wicked (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, demonic, teen, independent film
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Lucky (2020)
Plot Summary:
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore, anamorphic, thrilling, psychological, scary
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The Dawn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Similar in 88%
Achoura (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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The Appearing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
Similar in 87%
Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, gothic, splatter, frightening, dark, suspenseful, bad ending, atmospheric, intense