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Plot Summary:
The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, captivating, dark, mumblecore, wild
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A Woman Possessed (1975)
Plot Summary:
Laurent, a seemingly normal young man, is looking to join a witches’ sect that resides in a forest near his house. The only thing is Laurent’s wife Aline also needs to join the sect in order to complete his initiation. Aline is understandably reluctant, so the sect’s heads design a series of events designed to break her down.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, scary, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Ghost Riders (1987)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880s comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse's leader.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: wild
Similar in 77%
Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, independent film, weird, wild, cult film
Similar in 78%
We Need to Do Something (2021)
Plot Summary:
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore
Similar in 82%
Camp Cold Brook (2018)
Plot Summary:
Strange events plague crew members of a reality TV show when they visit an infamous backwoods camp that was the site of a mass murder 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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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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Trick of the Witch (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trick of the Witch is about a group of fashion models fighting a witchcraft curse while stranded at a secluded mansion.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, cult film
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The Reckoning (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, dark fantasy, stylized, scary, philosophical, political, suspense, dark, slasher
Similar in 76%
Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic
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Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, dark, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, wild, cult film
Similar in 82%
Black Noon (1971)
Plot Summary:
A traveling minister and his wife are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the Good Reverend figures out what's going on it may be too late to stop the evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, spooky, wild
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The Wicker Tree (2011)
Plot Summary:
Director Robin Hardy's reimagining of his eerie 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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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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Unearth (2020)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, wild
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Exit Humanity (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, serious, tense, scary, dark, apocalyptic, independent film, wild
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Revelation Trail (2013)
Plot Summary:
In late nineteenth century America, a frontier holy mans life is destroyed as a gruesome power consumes the land. Standing between ruin and salvation, the man, known only as The Preacher, must find his purpose in the fight against the mysterious undead. Joined by the town Marshal, a man with his own set of demons, he faces the risen dead and the evils of the living on a journey to nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark
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Agnes (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic
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The Unholy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alice, a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, mysterious, captivating, dark, splatter, grindhouse, spooky, religious horror
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The Big Bad (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat
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You Are Not My Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, intellectual, slasher, weird
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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 79%
The Shed (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, dark, natural horror, weird
Similar in 75%
Share with Me Your Brightest Colors (2019)
Plot Summary:
Far into the mountains, in a community led by a preacher named El Señor, a new child who is supposed to be the new messiah, is brought, and with him destruction and redemption. Soon, everything will change. Not only for the town, but on the preacher's home as his 3 daughters start to wonder the real origins of God itself, the nature of love, pleasure and inner freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Western
Country: Colombia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, dark, bleak, suspense, spaghetti western, independent film, weird
Similar in 78%
Hungry Wives (1972)
Plot Summary:
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, demonic, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, phantasmagoric, independent film, scary, psychological
Similar in 90%
Eyes of Fire (1983)
Plot Summary:
A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, anthology, indie film, independent film, tense, bleak, serious, emotional, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 77%
Viy (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized, gothic, bleak, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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After Midnight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, mumblecore, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, romantic
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Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Plot Summary:
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. One of the villagers takes care of him in prison. One day they both disappear – only the spear of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and his nurse.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: scary, brutal, suspense, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, psychological, splatter