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Plot Summary:
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, dark, natural horror, weird
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The Heiress (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 88%
The Wicked Within (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst unexplainable events occur. Tension over peculiar circumstances cracks the veneer of cordiality and dark secrets emerge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark
Similar in 81%
Unearth (2020)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, wild
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Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Within These Walls (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prisoner in her own home, a captive in her own body. Assaulted and trapped with no one to hear her cries for help... and knowing no one will believe her if they do. This is the terrifying reality Alaina finds herself in when she moves in to the house her mother died in. At first she thinks it's the loss of her mother that is haunting her, but she is soon shown it is something far more malicious and unrelenting. The spirit taunts her as it invades her body, mind, and soul, completely trapping her. Alaina has to fight for answers on what really happened to her mother if she has any hopes of survival. She must find a way to endure this monster who lives and breathes to rob her of her sanity as it demands a savage hold on her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
Similar in 81%
Conjuring the Genie (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the passing of her father, Morgan is told by her course tutor she must complete an assignment on an urban legend. Morgan and her friends awake the demonic genie from an amulet. Their wishes are granted one by one. Morgan is granted the wish of her father’s life back. However, soon, the group of friends realize their wishes are about to turn deadly, and they will realize the horrors the genie can create.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
The Ouija Exorcism (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, a celebrated exorcist trapped a horrific demon inside a ouija board. Thinking the board to be a game, his son played without obeying the rules, and let the demon loose. In order to save his son, the exorcist sent him far away until the demon could be destroyed. Thirty years later, and after his death, his grandson finds the board and makes the same mistake his father did. Now the evil is back and roaming the earth to terrorize those responsible for its imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Darkness Reigns (2018)
Plot Summary:
A film crew is ravaged by a demon, who is hell bent on cashing in on a deal he made with someone on set who was seeking fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 81%
Tom Holland's Twisted Tales (2014)
Plot Summary:
Horror legend Tom Holland dares you to join him for nine nerve-shredding, totally Twisted Tales. Serving up a mind-bending assortment of the macabre, it’s an anthology fine-tuned to keep you on the edge of your seat. A new drug offers users a glimpse of the future… with beastly consequences. A murderous husband is stalked by his own cell phone. A jilted lover wreaks satanic vengeance. The nightmarish action then leads to worlds haunted by dark magic, demonic possession, vampires, witches and more in this seriously freaky festival of fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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Black as Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans' disenfranchised with the help of her best friend, the boy she's always pined for, and a peculiar rich girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, hood, horror comedy, perverse, contemplative
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The Transfiguration (2016)
Plot Summary:
A New York tale about love, loss… and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological horror, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, mumblecore
Similar in 76%
The Bad Seed (2018)
Plot Summary:
A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, bleak, psychological, dark, psychological horror
Similar in 79%
The Test (2024)
Plot Summary:
A horror film about a pilot who is the sole survivor of the plane crash in the deep unknown. He must survive in an isolated building where something evil is waiting.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, silent, independent film
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Entity Project (2019)
Plot Summary:
A director and her friends renting a haunted house to capture paranormal events in order to prove it and become popular.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Madres (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blackwell Ghost 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker takes a journey to discover a new haunted house and brings along his cameras to document what happens inside. The house, which is plagued by its dark history, begins to come alive in this third instalment of “The Blackwell Ghost.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Lucky (2020)
Plot Summary:
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mumblecore, anamorphic, thrilling, psychological, scary
Similar in 84%
An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
The Purging Hour (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the hopes of a new life for his family, Bruce Diaz left the harsh city for the serene and majestic mountains of California. The Diaz family's first day in their new house would go down as one of the most violent 24 hours any family could ever imagine. With no serviceable evidence being retrieved and no witnesses to speak, the case was eventually dismissed. Several years later, the family's personal home movie footage was released by anonymous source. "Home Video" tells the family's story, through their eyes.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Incorporeal (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tale of an overzealous movie director and his unappreciative leading actress that go on a location scouting mission. What they find will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, meta
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Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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The Stylist (2020)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, psychotronic, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, weird
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The Dawn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Demonic (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, demonic, grindhouse, disgusting, bleak
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After Midnight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, mumblecore, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, romantic