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Plot Summary:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Draugasaga (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young student starts working as a night watchman in the Icelandic TV-house which is supposed to be haunted. Together with a make-up girl working there, he pretends to be a red-haired ghost. But what started out as a joke, soon becomes no laughing matter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Horror
Country: Iceland
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Bad Building (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Desmond - the building's pleasant sounding name hides a troubled past. The high rise has a long history of fires, murders, madness and even colonial era genocide upon the site. The towering building has stood empty for the better part of a century and even squatters dare not enter it's fortress like walls. But now Johnny Craig, the host of the popular TV paranormal investigation show 'America's Most Haunted' is planning to do a prime-time special from inside The Desmond. With no known way in, or out, Craig has contacted a group of urban explorers to help him and his film crew enter the building. But when Craig and his team set foot inside The Desmond the events that caused the building to be abandoned in the first place begin to repeat.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic
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Ouija: Summoning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sara lived a seemingly normal life before she had a Ouija board experience that unleashed a dark spirit. The spirit wants Sara to relive it's tortured past, and compels her to commit murder towards one of her family members or loved ones. Sara resists these threats and tries to stand against the power but she's forced to either watch her loved ones die one after the other, or obey the spirit and kill only one of them herself, as the spirit had done to her own son, long before. Sara must kill only one, and face the regret and pain of committing murder, or watch everyone around her die.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Egypt
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Face of the Devil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Zap (2002)
Plot Summary:
After losing one of their members to graduation, a sorority of altruistic witches must choose a new student for their coven. When Alexis is spurned for the spot, she immediately exacts revenge on the sorority by killing them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, dark comedy
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The Elderly (2022)
Plot Summary:
An octogenarian named Manuel falls into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparking a series of paranormal events that will put his family’s lives at risk.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, 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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Art of the Dead (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a man purchases a collection of seven paintings to hang in his wealthy estate, he has no idea what horrors he has unleashed for himself and his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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The 100 Candles Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends must confront their fears in a terrifying game. They must sit by the other players in a circle made of a hundred candles, take one of them and tell a horror story. As stories are told and candles blown out, strange events will start to happen. They will feel strange presences around them, lurking in the shadows. But they MUST NOT leave the game or else a terrible curse will fall upon them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, anthology, slasher
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Sijjin 3: Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a terrible car accident, Sedat will do anything to save a childhood friend – even if it means dealing with demons and ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, touching, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Restoration (2016)
Plot Summary:
During home renovations, a young couple release a fiery spirit seeking retribution. To save themselves and set the spirit free, they must uncover the dire truth. But nothing is as simple as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, mysterious
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Glimpse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a curse that now haunts him and only can be broken in one special way. But the more he learns about his former Japanese girlfriends family, the more he learns about his own family ... And one tragedy rarely comes alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense
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Ghost Witch (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of rag-tag paranormal investigators get more than they bargain for when they research an old local urban legend for a disturbed local girl.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, low-budget
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Death's Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a television psychic begins to get real results, the cast and crew of the show find themselves trapped by vengeful spirits.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, psychotronic
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Conjuring the Devil (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is struggling with the conflict between her faith and her personal life must defend herself against the spirit of a demonic nun who is bent on destroying her.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing
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First House on the Hill (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four friends decide to spend a weekend in a Malibu mansion owned by an old lady. The situation is flipped upside down once they come across an ancient haunted tarot deck that will change the fate of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing
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The La Llorona Curse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal television show crew investigates a home where alleged paranormal sightings of La Llorona (The Crying Woman) have occurred. Soon, the group finds themselves in a life or death fight as one of the world's oldest urban legends comes to life before their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, suspenseful
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Plot Summary:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, psychological, bleak
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VooDoo (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn't as easy as she hoped.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Fear House (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests Samantha's pledge, the remaining guests sink into horror. If they want to leave Fear House alive, this desperate group must act fast in writer-director Michael R. Morris's claustrophobic spook fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Provoked (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of amateur paranormal investigators, frustrated with the lack of any solid evidence after months of attempts, decide to provoke and taught spirits from the afterlife in a last ditch attempt for a paranormal encounter. The experiment works, but they have awakened something angry and very deadly - something that follows them home and now will not leave. The investigators must now defend their home, and their family, from the spirits who were brought into this world and are not going without taking some souls with them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01 - Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)
Plot Summary:
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama Chika) and cameraman Tashiro (Shiraishi) work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary
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The Speak (2011)
Plot Summary:
A small TV crew makes their way into the most haunted hotel in the US to film a web series on the paranormal. With the help of a Native American medium, they perform “The Speak”, a ceremony that brings forth more spirits and demons than the crew bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, parody
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A Nun's Curse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, intense, weird
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Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood Curse II: Asmodeus Rises (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alicia Stone returns in this gore-drenched sequel. Having lost all hope, husband Jason calls on the help of Paranormal TV host Tyson to confront the demonic forces that have plagued the Stone household.
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Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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Exit 14 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Laurie, a good-natured college student, embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith, Joey, and her boyfriend Mick. They get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk and are haunted by the ghost story he shares with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Abigail Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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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