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Plot Summary:
Louie receives a text message from the province that his father Ulding had a heart attack. Louie rushes to drive home from Manila only to find out that the message was nothing but a prank. Louie then senses something eerie about his hometown. He finds out there have been several killings in the area all done in the same manner. Apparently, the victim first hears some rumbling noise that is before they are found dead all covered with mud. When the killings move closer to home and threatens Louie’s family, he discovers for himself how he had been estranged from his roots and now must face his past with the horror of what is to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, touching, captivating
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The Returning (1983)
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Two different men are possessed by spirits of Native Americans after they separately wander into a sacred burial ground. When John and Sybil come home with their son after a trip to the Mojave Desert, they bring an unusual stone back as a memento of the trip. The stone seems to cause strange noises and other horrible inexplicable phenomena.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Don't Awaken the Dead (1987)
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Robertito falls in love with Helen. Gabriel is jealous of his brother being the favorite son of their mother so he makes Helen fall in love to him. Robertito is heartbroken. Aurora asks Julie, who is in love with Robertito, to bring comfort and love to Robertito. When Robertito learns about the arrangement, he speed off, meet an accident and dies. Aurora refuses to accept that his favorite son has died so she made a great pact with Lucio to bring Robertito back to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 119 min
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Barang (2006)
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A heart-pounding fright movie about a provincial lass whose life and death is shrouded by inexplicable and ghastly events so affecting the whole community of Sta. Barbara. Igan suffers a gruesome death in the hands of a devil worshipper, Nana Ursula. After young Igna incurs the wrath of a spiteful witch, a strong spell leaves the unlucky provincial woman cursed for the rest of her life and her death. Eager to exact revenge from the grave, Igna targets three young visitors. The trio must fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Shake Rattle and Roll 12 (2010)
Plot Summary:
The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, anthology, exciting
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In Just the Wink of an Eye (1981)
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About the incestuous obsession of a retired policeman Dadong Carandang (Silayan) for his daughter Mila (Santos). When she tells her father that she wishes to marry her boyfriend Noel (Ilagan) because she is pregnant, the news unleashes a series of abnormal events that inevitably lead to the family's doom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
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The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
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Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy, art house, eros, horror comedy
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Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005)
Plot Summary:
A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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Haunted House (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romano and his men are ambushed in one military operation. Romano almost gets killed but wakes up after staying in coma for several days. His life will never be the same again. He resigns from the military and goes into seclusion in their Baguio ancestral house after realizing that he now has a supernatural gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Visit (2010)
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For the sake of her son, Paolo, Stella is re-married to another man, Anton, in the hopes of a having a whole and peaceful family life. However, after the wedding, she experiences major haunting that endangers her life and the people around her. All the clues are pointing to her dead husband. Feeling guilty of her ex-husband’s death, Stella tries to save her family from the ghost’s wrath. Along the way, secrets start to unravel and Stella is now unsure of who is haunting her and why she is being haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, rough, offbeat, humorous
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Spirits in the Dark (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widower finds a mysterious video on his computer that leads him to an abandoned town occupied by an ominous entity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hungary, UK, USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, bleak, twist ending, surprise ending, experimental, independent film, minimal cast
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Seance (2007)
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Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija board from when they were kids. The Ouija board is burned by accident before they are able to finish the ritual, trapping a murderous entity around them. As they begin to realize the terror that they have brought upon themselves, Aileen and Romina's hostile relationship even become more strained, while Lucy's sanity brings a heavy burden on Sandra, and Ruth's boyfriend, Gino, is unknowingly pulled into the danger and horror that await all of them. Confronted by imminent Death, the girls have nowhere to go unless they can identify the spirit and find out where it is buried. It is only by leading the spirit to its burial ground that they will able to release the spirit from the Ouija board and survive its fatal hauntings.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending
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TxT (2006)
Plot Summary:
A provocative thriller that will surely raise the fear in you. Proving that no one, not even DEATH can separate us from the living. A story that conquers the old adage "till death do us part", Roman (Oyo Boy Sotto) dies in a car accident. In a restless and unforgiving state he continues to prove his affection for girlfriend Joyce (Angel Locsin) . He then decides to embark in an intrepid and malevolent journey in order to keep Joyce. Joyce then began receiving hair raising text messages and even gets "death photos" of people close to her, including that of her current beau Alex (Dennis Trillo). She ignores these at first, but when the deaths happen under the exact circumstances at which they were predicted, she realizes she must fight the evil behind all these to protect her loved ones from this supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Satan's Slaves (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the death of Rini's mother, something is disturbing her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, dark fantasy, spooky
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Hunting Souls (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Secrets of the Summer House (2008)
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Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Wind of Fear (2007)
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Claudia is a troubled teen confined in a very particular support center ruled with roughness by renowned psychiatrist Bernarda Alquicira. Coexisting with girls who have experienced similar trances, Claudia confronts horrible visions of Andrea, a beautiful intern who committed suicide a year ago. Another strange patient -Josefina- and doctor Lucia Franyutti -the right arm of Bernarda- seem to know the key to the bizarre return of Andrea, but even they are disturbed by the supernatural events that take place when the wind starts to blow.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Complex (2013)
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Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. ¶ Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, enigmatic, mind bending
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Susan Hill's Ghost Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate the strange occurrences within his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, exciting, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, crime drama, spooky
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Lampor: The Flying Coffin (2019)
Plot Summary:
Edwin and Netta with their two children, Adam and Sekar going to Netta's hometown at Temanggung. Netta were suspected as the cause of Lampor terror at her hometown, a demon who bring a flying casket.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, twisted
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Laddaland (2011)
Plot Summary:
A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, dark, disturbing, terrifying, scary, serious
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Feng shui (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the most unfortunate day of her life, Joy picks up a package left by a stranger in a bus. It is called ‘ba-gua’, (feng shui mirror) an item that drives bad luck away. Joy could not refuse the luck that continues to come her way until everything appears too good to be true. Unexplained events disturb her family’s peace . People start to die as well. Having been advised by the geomancer to simply say no to the next form of luck, all Joy could do now is wait. But what painful decision awaits her? Will Joy prevail or be consumed by the curse of the bagua mirror?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky, terrifying, realistic
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The Big Bad (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat
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Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022)
Plot Summary:
After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, spooky, asian horror
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Backtrack (2015)
Plot Summary:
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, touching, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological, psychedelic, suspense thriller
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Click (2010)
Plot Summary:
Professional Photographer, Avi, and his girlfriend, Sonia, consume alcohol and celebrate with Tarun and others. While on their way home, an impaired Sonia runs over a young woman, but does not stop to assist her. Shortly thereafter Avi finds his photographs include a shadowy image of a woman and assumes his camera is defective. Despite of repairs, the images of the mysterious woman persists and the duo conclude that it could well be the woman they had run over. Both of them then start to have nightmares, as well Avi complains of a pain in his neck area. He goes for a number of medical tests which prove to non-conclusive. Sonia starts to investigate this strange phenomenon with the photographs as well as the nightmares with the Mumbai School of Arts - and what she finds there will shatter and change both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Abandoned (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror
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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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Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Plot Summary:
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy, bleak
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The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)
Plot Summary:
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher
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The Innkeepers (2011)
Plot Summary:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, suspense, psychological, tense, spooky, stylized