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Plot Summary:
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Disposable (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to confront the truth about himself. Is he really the serial killer behind these murders? Or just the perfect fall guy? But it's not easy to find those answers when you can't differentiate between fact and fiction. Now, Bill must struggle to ground himself in reality and unfold the mystery behind the killings, as the only way to prove his innocence. "DISPOSABLE": the story of a man who must confront the truth about himself in order to save himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Artik (2019)
Plot Summary:
In rural farm country, a comic book obsessed serial killer clashes with a straight edge purist over a young boy's fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, mumblecore, perverse
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End Trip (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a calm night in an average city a hardworking URYDE driver, Brandon, picks up just another fare, Judd. Using interactions that blur the lines between the technological world and the physical one, Judd explains a messy breakup. Brandon offers an empathetic ear and a sympathetic heart to his new friend to help him pick up the pieces. Aggregated profiles, algorithms, links, likes and comments bring people closer. But how close is too close?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Ladies of the House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, interesting
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The Eden Theory (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his best friend disappears, Tom Edwards is investigated by a relentless detective as he tries to lead a normal summer. Tom fears facing the truth and struggles to cope with the loss of his friend as the world around him seems to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, stylized, psychotronic
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Simon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Soul (2021)
Plot Summary:
Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at home. The prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Abang, learned during the investigation that the deceased’s long-term partner, Dr. Wan, and his ex-wife’s Son Wang Tianyou, young newlywed wife Li Yan, and even the dead ex-wife, each suspect has an intricate connection. As more clues gradually surfaced, they gradually discovered the rich. The amazing secret hidden behind the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, sexy, detective
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Deep Evil (2019)
Plot Summary:
Wen and Han. As the duo search for clues to identify the headless victim, they find it all pointing to a top plastic surgeon Kao who seems to have a complex history with Han in the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Viking Wolf (2022)
Plot Summary:
Thale (17) has just moved with her parents to a small town after her mother has a new job in the local police. After a student is killed brutally at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Re-Cut (2010)
Plot Summary:
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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Savageland (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, tense, suspense, disturbing, scary, spooky, twisted
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Heavy Makeup (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal murders occur in their Hollywood neighborhood, two women search for clues to uncover the identity of a serial killer who is targeting struggling young actresses.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, horror spoof, cult film
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The Inerasable (2015)
Plot Summary:
I (Yuko Takeuchi) is a mystery novel writer. I receive a letter from Kubo (Ai Hashimoto), a reader of her novel and a university student. Her letter states that she hears odd sounds from the room where she lives now. I becomes interested by the letter and they being to investigate. I and Kubo learn of people that lived in the apartment and their experiences including a suicide and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, intellectual, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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5 Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences….
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film
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The Dare (2019)
Plot Summary:
A rare family night for Jay takes a brutal twist when he awakens in a basement with three other prisoners. As their vengeful captor runs riot, Jay engages in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family's future.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
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Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Eye Without a Face (2021)
Plot Summary:
Agoraphobic young man Henry, living with a Youtuber and struggling actor Eric, hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, twisted
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Close Calls (2017)
Plot Summary:
Morgan, a troubled, drug-addled teen, must deal with her crazy grandma and a psycho caller when her father leaves her home alone. As the calls keep coming in, a paranoid Morgan is forced to face some of her worst fears and inner demons when she believes everyone she knows is either plotting against her - or trying to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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XII (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, scary, rough, serious
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Phobias (2021)
Plot Summary:
Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Incision (2020)
Plot Summary:
Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham. A deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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I Spill Your Guts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two friends Dennis and Joe join the military together. While on a routine mission, the two are quickly surrounded by enemy fire. When Joe stands up in the line of fire to run, Dennis pushes him out of the way and takes a bullet in the throat. Dennis wakes up in hospital to find Joe rewarded as a hero. Joe told a lie and took all the glory, and Dennis was left as a mute from the accident. Dennis can't talk, but actions speak louder then words. The two return home to N.Y. and now the war rages in the streets. Dennis wants revenge on Joe, so he will kill everyone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Deep Web: Murdershow (2023)
Plot Summary:
A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Breeder (2020)
Plot Summary:
A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this. Can she somehow find inner strength and escape from the nightmare?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter
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Choke (2020)
Plot Summary:
The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer's affairs with a mysterious girl overlap.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, retro, scary