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Plot Summary:
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surreal, spooky, independent film
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Penumbra (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, captivating, surreal, horror comedy, twisted, serious
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The Sacred (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fresh off the success of her first horror novel, Jessie is revered by the literaly world as the next Stephen King. While her editor anxiously awaits her next novel, she is suffering from writer's block. Out of fear of becoming a one-hit novelist, Jessie ventures to her deceased aunt's cabin in the woods to find inspiration for her new book. Having not visited in many years, Jessie has no memory of her childhood summers at the cabin or her time spent in the surrounding woods. But when darkness falls on Jessie's first night alone in the cabin, her memories begin to awaken. A dark presence resides here; one that seems to be watching Jessie every move and one that she has always been afraid of. A series of erotic, bizarre and terrifying events that force Jessie to question her own reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, bleak
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Necrosis (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, six friends arrive at an isolated cabin to enjoy a long weekend in the snow. An epic snowstorm interrupts their vacation, trapping them on the mountain and resurrecting the haunting ghosts of the Donner Party. But, are they true 'entities' or is it simply 'cabin fever' that brings out their fears and darkness, causing friends to turn against each other as reality deteriorates around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, epic
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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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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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I Am ZoZo (2012)
Plot Summary:
I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that attaches itself to people exclusively through Ouija boards. I Am ZoZo was shot on location on San Juan Island, WA and Seattle entirely on Kodak Super 8mm negative film stock.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mind bending, psychotronic
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Blackwood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense
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Closed for the Season (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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Nine Lives (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, tense, captivating
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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House Hunting (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two families go to an open house and can't leave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, psychotronic, creepy, spooky, independent film
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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After... (2006)
Plot Summary:
Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark, closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow, and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces him to confront it head-on, with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, independent film
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Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, frightening, scary, suspenseful, independent film
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Deadline (2009)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, satanic, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological horror
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House of Bones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, terrifying, surprise ending
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Il nascondiglio (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
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Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
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The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film
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The Pact (2012)
Plot Summary:
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams - visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother's past that is finally revealing itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, christmas horror, demonic, creepy, spooky, twisted
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The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, erotic, psychotronic
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Farm House (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in the modern day mid-west, the film focuses on a young couple trying to establish a new life. They become stranded in a very isolated vineyard. They are forced to face secrets from their own pasts and the malicous intents of the vineyard's inhabitant who turn out to be demons from hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, twist ending, extreme horror, tense, independent film
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic
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The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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Entity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, grindhouse, spooky
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The Watch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, serious
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American Horror Story (2011)
Plot Summary:
American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 338000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure, bad ending, offbeat, slasher