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Plot Summary:
A terrifying psychological thriller set near the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana. Two high school friends, Travis and Nate, are on a road trip to Canada when they're attacked by mysterious and vicious creatures. Nate is stolen into the woods and Travis will stop at nothing to get him back. Travis recruits Nate's older brother Chris to bring an arsenal and wage war against these monsters in an effort to retrieve Nate.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, psychotronic, low-budget
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Bigfoot Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to hunt down the creature. However, as they wander into the wilderness they discover that an entire tribe of Sasquatches awaits them. Now the enraged creatures descend from the hills and into the town to declare war upon its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Taking (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers must discover a way to escape a sinister family who wishes to sacrifice their souls to an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, weird
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Monstrous (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, NY, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that hiding in the woods is an evil more sinister than she could ever imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, dark drama
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The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the recently acquired journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers, this vintage horror tale debunks history books to tell the veracious, harrowing story of a rural Texas community whose residents were terrified for years by a mysterious creature inhabiting the nearby woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, avant garde, retro, suspense, independent film, black comedy, weird
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Dreamcatcher (2021)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, talky, scary, surprise ending, bleak, brutal
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Nightbeasts (2010)
Plot Summary:
A father and son on a weekend hunting trip encounter supernatural horror in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, psychotronic, neo noir
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Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ten: Murder Island (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids travel to an abandoned island for a party only to discover that they are being stalked and hunted down by a dangerous predator.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sightings (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family under suspicion of murder after three bodies mysteriously appear on their ranch are terrorised by what they can only describe as Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing
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Dead in the Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Nereus is a fifty-year-old Ice Breaker, salvaged by an idealistic crew on a mission to catch illegal fisherman. On chase, the crew find themselves well off-course and bearing down on a body mysteriously floating in the middle of the Devil’s Sea. Superstitious or not, the team soon discovers they’ve rescued a deadly creature feeding on the lifeless body. Their new mission—kill or be killed and preferably before they hit land.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Friends head off to the remote island of Martha's Vineyard to celebrate New Year's Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Lost Woods (2012)
Plot Summary:
A story of what happens when a reluctant man is forced to face his fears, which begins as a fun camping trip and ends in a fight for survival in the remote forest of the pacific northwest.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting
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The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense thriller
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Valley of the Sasquatch (2015)
Plot Summary:
After losing their home following a devastating tragedy, a father and son are forced to move to an old family cabin. Neither reacts well to being thrown into this new world. The son's attempts to relate to his father are complicated when two old friends arrive for a weekend of hunting. This trip into the forest will unearth not only buried feelings of guilt and betrayal, but also a tribe of Sasquatch that are determined to protect their land.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Hunting the Legend (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary
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Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Plot Summary:
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, christmas horror, scary, exciting, serious, independent film
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Bigfoot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, mythical, scary, offbeat, serious, independent film, cult film
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Primal Rage (2018)
Plot Summary:
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, intense, psychotronic
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A blazing fire rips its way through Bear Valley National Park. As the firefighters try to contain it, the animals are being forced out of their habitat including a beast that was better left undiscovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Witches in the Woods (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they have become stranded in Stoughton Valley, home of some Witch Trials even more horrendous than Salem, and are being hunted by a supernatural creature determined to keep them there.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, dark, slasher, splatter, scary
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Spectres (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college friends on a weekend trip to the back woods of Kentucky trespass through an Native American burial ground, they unwittingly unleash the wrath of an ancient evil. As they experience increasing levels of peril and hauntings, they discover there is a place where technology and evil cross paths, and both are more than deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Dawn of the Beast (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Plot Summary:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, spooky, bloody, perverse, slasher horror, dark
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Exists (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, grindhouse, teen horror, mythical, powerful, natural horror
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Abominable (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mythical, perverse, action packed, slasher, natural horror, spooky
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy