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Plot Summary:
A film unit goes for a shoot deep into a forestThey settle at a place with bare minimal facilities run by a strange and quirky man called Setu.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, scary
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3G - A Killer Connection (2013)
Plot Summary:
3G is the nightmarish story of Sam Arora and Sheena, a couple, who become victims of a series of events when Sam buys a 3G enabled second hand phone in Fiji islands while on a holiday. One night they receive a Phantom Call which changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic
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Nagin: The Snake Woman (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Far Eastern myth of the snake woman who is able to take on human form.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror
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Evil Eyes (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a day of solar eclipse, five year old, Naina, loses her eyesight and her parents in a road accident in London. Twenty years later, she is bestowed with the gift of sight thanks to the marvels of modern science. Her period of darkness is over; or is it? A horrifying period of darkness begins. What is this curse that has been upon her? Will she ever be able to escape it? Will this extraordinary s.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, scary, mind bending, tension
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Legend of the Bog (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the dead start to mysteriously re-animate from an ancient bog an eccentric hunter, embarks on a crusade to hunt down the forsaken beasts. But when a ferocious Bog Man emerges from the murk, a powerful and ancient evil is released and the Hunter becomes the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, slasher
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Wrestlemaniac (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Caba San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon "La Sangre De Dios", a ghost town with a spine-tingling legend about an insane Mexican wrestler. One by one, the cast and crew are snatched, beaten and dragged to a bloody death. The few left alive must figure out how to beat the wrestler at his own deadly game, or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, weird
Similar in 84%
Shaapit: The Cursed (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a girl who is trapped in a generational curse, which does not allow her love & marriage and her lover who vows to conquer this curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, scary, exciting, serious
Similar in 82%
The Killer (2006)
Plot Summary:
A cold-blooded contract killer hires the services of a cab driver for a full night. He forces the driver to go around Dubai as he keeps finishing off witnesses scheduled to testify against a gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, remake of american film
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Ghost (2003)
Plot Summary:
Manjeet Khosla lives with her widowed mom in Bombay, India. She gets married, gives birth to a son, and separates from her spouse. She goes to live on the 12th floor of an apartment building. Thereafter, she has an affair with Sanjay Thakkar, who is the son of the building Secretary. Shortly thereafter, she and her son fall down from their balcony and die. The building watchman testifies that Manjeet was depressed and suicidal.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, mind bending, scary
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Black Cadillac (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, road movie, suspense, corny
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The Forest (2011)
Plot Summary:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Ragini MMS (2011)
Plot Summary:
The quintessential couple, Ragini and Uday, set out to have a dirty weekend at a friend's farmhouse on the outskirts of Mumbai. The weekend getaway quickly changes gears as they find themselves in a house that has been rigged with cameras in Big Boss style.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, mockumentary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological
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Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Prey (2010)
Plot Summary:
One night, several deer hurl themselves unexpectedly against the electric fence of a farm. Seeing deep signs of biting on the animals’ bodies, the farm owners realise that a predator is roaming about the neighbouring woods. Having determined to hunt it down, the farmer and his family penetrate deep into the surrounding forest. They look with bewilderment at the dying environment ravaged by a mysterious evil force. As the sun slowly sinks away, howling resounds through the forest. The hunters have become prey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, rough
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Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)
Plot Summary:
Professor and students camp out to find Bigfoot-type creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dark Woods (2003)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the TV show "Real TV" with controlling boss Gunnar on the front line will soon begin production of a reality show for which participants are selected to survive in the wilderness. Gunnar has gathered a production team of four people: The friends Lasse and Per , the Swedish girl Elin and the new girl Sara. To test his new employees, Gunnar takes them to a log cabin where he used to spend summers as a kid. The cabin is located far away from civilisation, hidden in the dark, mysterious woods. The team has to make it through a weekend, finding food that nature has to offer, and neither cellular phones nor cigarettes are allowed. When Lasse and Per find a dead body in a lake near the cottage, the group is being tested. Gunnar is suggesting that they should continue the weekend without mentioning anything to Sara and Elin about what they found. But soon the team experiences some escalating incidents which lead to paranoia, accusations and mistrust.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, splatter, creepy, cult classic, cult horror, serious
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Dead Creatures (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of women afflicted with a horrible disease (which forces them to cannibalism) try to support one another.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Deadtime Stories 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Haunted Boat (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the young Kevin gets the boat of his dead uncle as a gift, he invites five friends of him to a trip to Catalina Island for the weekend. While in the journey, they drink booze, have sex and play games, with each one of them telling his or her greatest fear. Later Kevin drowns in the open sea, the engine stops, and they are haunted and murdered by their greatest innermost fear.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, scary, serious, mind twisting
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Cut (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, bloody, suspense, teen horror, queer horror
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Rise of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the story. Things get complicated when Laura's roommate is murdered and the local police start asking questions that they can't answer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
Similar in 81%
Visitors (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Tomb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each one. One by one, the captives awake in agonizing pain - some are slightly injured, others are fatally wounded. The survivors are also mentally tortured by the unseen villain, who demands that there can be only one winner at this game.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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The Village of Shadows (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Lucas Frantz invites his friends to visit his hometown Village de Ruiflec, they head in two cars to spend the weekend. The driver Hugo Kerimba, Marion Valeyre, Stan and his girlfriend Katia Brezinsky follows the car of Lucas, David Fontana, his girlfriend Lila Paredes, Marion's estranged sister Emma Valeyre and Mathias through the lonely winding road in a rainy night. Out of the blue, Hugo steps on the gas and overtakes the other car. Sooner, Lucas, David, Lila, Emma and Mathias find Hugo's car left on the road with the doors open and the passengers missing. They walk to Ruiflec to find shelter and a telephone to call the other group. But they learn that they are trapped in Ruiflec and an evil entity does not allow them to leave the village.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, bleak
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The Watch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, serious
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Backcountry (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, natural horror, scary, disturbing