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Plot Summary:
The horror story based on Nikolai Gogol novel.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, exciting, suspense
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Definition of Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four beautiful girls spend the weekend at a charming holiday cabin. But all is not how it seems. They quickly discover that maybe they are not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, rough, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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Demon Summer (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a group of high school kids look into the 20 year old mystery surrounding the death of a teenage girl in their hometown, they unintentionally release the evil responsible.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Lights (2009)
Plot Summary:
As the foursome watches the eerie nocturnal spectacle of The Lights, a local natural phenomenon, someone is watching them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sincere, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Watcher in the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychotronic
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The Witch Chronicles (2019)
Plot Summary:
After 300 years of seeking revenge on the Hekate Family through The Hekate Chronicles, Bertrand Guilladot's ghost, a Catholic Priest from Dijon, France in 1742, who sold his soul to the devil through witchcraft, has finally met his match. Azar Francis Hekate, today's most powerful sorcerer, feeds souls to the demon, Paymon, the master of infernal ceremonies, who lives within his wife, Sabazios. When Bertrand stumbles upon his witchery, Azar is in for the battle of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure
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House of the Black Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Offensive (2016)
Plot Summary:
A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a house in rural France. Bernard's father had liberated this same village from the Nazis during the Second World War, in a rage-fueled killing spree. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a cruel gang of street kids, who terrorise the village. Plugged into their devices and devoid of empathy, they are a new breed of technological psychopath... Bernard and Helen's lives become a living hell as they are harassed and tormented by the gang. When pushed beyond breaking point, right or wrong no longer matters, survival is everything! Can Bernard live up to his father's legend? And could they live with the consequences? This is the old generation vs the new!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Witchouse III: Demon Fire (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves her abusive boyfriend to go and stay with her two best friends, documentary makers Stevie & Rose. After an evening of sipping wine in the hot-tub, the three women decide to dabble in a bit of black magic as part of Stevie's latest project, an in-depth expose on contemporary witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
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Joshua (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of his hometown telling that his father had just died from heart attack. He decides to return to Bisbee for the funeral and Amelia goes with him. Kelby and Amelia lodge at his mother's house and he meets his slut sister Trish, his former friends James Lilly and the policeman Wally and his unknown uncle Tom. When Wally has a nervous breakdown with the name of Joshua, Kelby is haunted by the evil past in Bisbee.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, realistic
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The Grandmother (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who raised her, has had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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The Inhabitant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters enter the house of a senator with the intention of stealing money obtained from bribes, but once inside, they begin to hear strange cries coming from the basement.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: demonic, tense, suspense, mockbuster, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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Mark of the Devil (2020)
Plot Summary:
An exorcist priest meets a family that has a daughter who is pursued by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, rough
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The Witches' Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple traveling thorugh the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, psychotronic, cult film
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The Hollow (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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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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The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, psychotronic
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Demon Mind (2017)
Plot Summary:
An ancient demon head and a pair of demonic battle axes transforms a collector into a hideous and barbaric demon who slaughters any soul caught in his blood thirsty eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, independent film
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The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Plot Summary:
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic, odd
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1st Summoning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four student filmmakers set out to explore an abandoned building famous for its connection with the occult, but as their journey becomes littered with strange behavior and unexplained phenomena, it becomes clear the horror they are attempting to document may already be lurking among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, enigmatic
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666: The Devil's Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vanessa, a documentary filmmaker, and she is making a film about folklore. Her best friend Brad was meant to help her, but he instead decides to go on a date with new love Jessica, who he met online. His new girlfriend persuades Vanessa to join him by telling her the house is haunted and would be a good subject for her film, but it turns out she has been lured into a trap and she is a creature from Hell. Quite how she will be impregnated by a female demon will be revealed in the movie.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, dark
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Lady of Csejte (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: gothic, enigmatic, bloody, suspenseful, suspense
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Dabbe: The Possession (2013)
Plot Summary:
Preparing for her wedding, Kübra gets possessed by unknown livings. To cure Kübra, a psychiatrist, Ebru, gets on way. Ebru is also an old friend of Kübra. Ebru would work together with an exorcist to save Kübra. Just when things seemed to be going well, everything start going horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic
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The Witches (1966)
Plot Summary:
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, satanic, gothic, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, atmospheric, satanic, grindhouse, creepy
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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Plot Summary:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy
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Maneater (2009)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scenic, scary, slasher
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Jaws of Satan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, satanic, natural horror, independent film, serious, psychotronic
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The Exorcist (1973)
Plot Summary:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, demonic, frightening, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy