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Plot Summary:
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, enigmatic, serious, tense, grindhouse, spectacular, gloomy
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Flowers (2015)
Plot Summary:
An abstract, surreal horror film centering on six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer's house.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, bloody, dark, controversial
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Possession (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the brother-in-law wakes up, thinking he's his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, surreal, suspense, dark, psychotronic
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Hideout (2021)
Plot Summary:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
Plot Summary:
After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, perverse
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Wraith (2017)
Plot Summary:
After living in an old mansion for almost 10 years a family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them. A super-natural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, 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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Phone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some investigating and discovers that of the people before her who had the same number, almost all of them died suddenly under unusual circumstances. As Yeong-ju's behavior becomes increasingly alarming, Ji-won digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the number's first owner, a high school girl named Jin-hie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, splatter, art house, creepy, atmospheric
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Fingerprints (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher
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Munger Road (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, slasher, tense, suspense, independent film, serious
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Jennifer's Shadow (2004)
Plot Summary:
Willful young Jennifer Cassi travels to South America to claim the inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister Johanna's house. While there Jennifer must contend with her eccentric grandmother Mary Ellen Cassi, who has damned the family with an ancient curse. Jennifer immediately starts to suffer from scary visions of a sinister raven every time she goes to sleep.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, serious, slasher
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An American Haunting (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, creepy, period piece, atmospheric, psychotronic
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Night at the Eagle Inn (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fraternal twins spend a hellish night at the remote inn their father disappeared from the night they were born.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher
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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
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A Near Death Experience (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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The Grudge 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surreal, stylized, psychological, serious, creepy
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The Unborn (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, rough, terrifying, psychological, satanic
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Toolbox Murders (2004)
Plot Summary:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic
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Half Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, surprise ending, stylized, intense, enigmatic, scary
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They (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, brutal, psychological horror, classic horror
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Plot Summary:
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, dark, creepy, twist ending
Similar in 81%
The Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric, twist ending, minimal cast, suspenseful, clever
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, twist ending, atmospheric, creepy, sexy
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Stir of Echoes (1999)
Plot Summary:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspense, atmospheric, scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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The Grudge (2004)
Plot Summary:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim - Karen must find away to break the spell before she becomes the spirit's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, terrifying, slasher, stylized
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Dream House (2011)
Plot Summary:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, scary, serious, enigmatic, intense
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Gothika (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending