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Plot Summary:
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sequel to cult film
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The Last Supper (2005)
Plot Summary:
A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret in THE LAST SUPPER. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a seedy restaurant with some highly dubious special dishes. Murder and mayhem ensue as the demented doctor continues to find new and gruesome ways to satisfy his appetite.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, humorous, surprise ending
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Scary Hair (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Chi-Hyon takes home her young sister, Su Hyon, a terminal cancer patient, so that she can help her enjoy her remaining time on earth, she buys her a wig to mask the effects of chemotherapy -- not realizing that the wig is, in fact, demonic. Once in possession of the wicked hairpiece, Su Hyon begins committing all sorts of transgressions, including causing Chi-Hyon to have a car accident and trying to seduce her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, intense, creepy
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The Hypnotist (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bloody, detective, action thriller, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic
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The Seamstress (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, suspense, demonic, awful
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Hellgate (2011)
Plot Summary:
A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense
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Inugami (2001)
Plot Summary:
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, erotic, tense, serious, experimental, avant garde
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Gemini (1999)
Plot Summary:
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, mind blowing, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious
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The Eye 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam (Tik Jesadaporn Pholdee), who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, saga, art house, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Body (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the illusion that Chon sees in his dreams, so she introduces him to a psychiatrist. Chon tries to prove that what he sees is not just the illusion. Finally, Chon is right when some clues in his nightmares lead him to a morgue number 19. Now, the story of the dead body inside the morgue is gradually revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, serious, bloody, surprise ending
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
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In Dreams (1999)
Plot Summary:
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, intense, serious, atmospheric, spiritual, mystical
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Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, frightening, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing
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One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, slasher, surprise ending, detective
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Spider Forest (2004)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is that two people died in Spider Forest. Detective CHOI, KANG Min's friend, finds a couple brutally murdered at a cottage in the forest, just like KANG Min described. As the couple found dead at the cottage are identified as CHOI Jong-phil, his senior from work, and HWANG Soo-young, his girlfriend, KANG Min becomes both a witness and key suspect in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, mind bending, disturbing, mindfuck, mind blowing, erotic, psychological thriller
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The Dark (2005)
Plot Summary:
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, spooky
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, inspirational, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Ring 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, splatter, psychological, disturbing, art house, horror comedy, tense, atmospheric, serious
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, cult horror, spooky
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Phobia (2008)
Plot Summary:
4bia or Phobia (Thai: สี่แพร่ง or See Prang) is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange about this new stranger that she is attracted to. "Tit For Tat" spun a tale of black magic and vengeance for a school kid that had been bullied by a school gang. "In The Middle" - a group of friends faced one of their worst camping trip after water kayaking accident. The final segment "Last Fright" takes horror to new heights with a psychological thriller that involves a stewardess flying solo in a cabin with a dead body.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, dark fairy tale, spooky
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Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, horror comedy
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One Missed Call (2008)
Plot Summary:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, psychological, mind bending, dark, mind blowing, terrifying
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Dark Water (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, intense, creepy, slasher
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The Guardian (1990)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, creepy, atmospheric, slasher, dark, demonic, psychological
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Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, splatter, art house, tense, serious
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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 Grudge 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher
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Marebito (2004)
Plot Summary:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, mockumentary, suspense, clever
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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The Ring (2002)
Plot Summary:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy, dark, frightening, twist ending, psychological, disturbing
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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