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Plot Summary:
When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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The Dollhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not long after Yoko and Arthur move into their new house, they notice that many strange things happen here. Yoko begins seeing ghosts and suspects that the house is haunted. Yoko enlists the help of a police detective, who knows the house has a dark, secret past.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: mystical, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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The Source of Shadows (2020)
Plot Summary:
This horror anthology film depicts ten tales of horror from twelve visionary directors as they take us on a journey to experience one of humanity’s most carnal fears; the fear of the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, tense, bleak, gothic horror, disturbing, exciting
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Painted in Blood (2022)
Plot Summary:
Malik, an aspiring painter, takes a job as a security guard at an art museum to make extra cash. However things quickly become terrifying when the figure inside one of the paintings starts speaking to him and walking around at night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Haunting of La Llorona (2019)
Plot Summary:
The screams of the children echo throughout the night as a violent reminder of a demon of the past. La Llorona, a paranormal force has returned and seeks the blood of the innocent, proving that the legend is real.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ghost Game (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ghost Game tells the story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They're brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge prison twenty years before. Thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed there during the Cambodian war in the 1970s. Now the museum is abandoned, an.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Creek (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends driving to Las Vegas to attend a Horror convention decide to stop at a roadside attraction promising the opportunity to find gold. After being told about the ghosts who haunt the Creek, they head into the woods to test their luck disbelieving what has been told. Soon the friends decide to leave, but their car is missing and the roadside attraction is permanently closed. The only thing left to do is venture back into the woods and search for their car or anyone that could help, but after one friend finds hidden gold the ghosts of the Creek begins to stalk the group out of vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Power (2021)
Plot Summary:
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, medical horror, spooky, mystical
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Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Plot Summary:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Z (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, disturbing, bleak, tense, scary, suspenseful, splatter, spooky, exciting
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Sijjin 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. And this beings don't want anyone in the house, but Saadet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Watcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and that someone -- or something -- is determined to drive them out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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The 8th Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, dark fantasy, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, perverse, mystical, scary
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Aleister (2015)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple seeks a fresh start to their lives by moving into an upper scale New England community. While settling in, they discover many disturbing secrets and acts connected to an infamous Satanic Cult which took place inside their very own home. They soon realize... they're not living alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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It Watches (2016)
Plot Summary:
Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ominous sounds and experiencing strange occurrences throughout the house that lead him to believe he is not alone, and that someone, or something is in the house with him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Korean Ghost Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
A series of 8 one-act dramas. It is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which aired first on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. This marks the return of the series after nine years.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, bizarre
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Ghosthunters (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of their own loses his wife and daughter at the hands of a serial killer, a team of ghost hunters is determined to capture the spirits of the loved ones so their spirits can finally rest in peace. But as the team goes deeper into the house, the ghosts become more hostile, and the group discovers the true secrets of the house and its murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, serious, psychological, mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Come Play With Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, an insecure young woman, begins babysitting two troublesome siblings that turn her job into a complete living hell. That is until a devilish presence starts messing with the trio and they must band together to fight the demon away.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a cult of old witch ladies, he embarks on a mission to exorcise the body of Julie from the evil soul of La Llorona.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, tense, mockumentary, weird
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The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, folk tale, grindhouse, creepy
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The Bad Nun (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events. Aesha goes to an isolated b&b in Kent after her mom books her in so she can get some head space for her studies. In the night Aesha is visited by a nun at the door who will progressively begin to show her true colours as the night unfolds - As the nun continues to bother Aesha at the door, Aesha begins to question her surroundings in this isolated suspense horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Plot Summary:
An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, a place selected as one of the '7 freakiest places on the planet'. They are to explore the haunted asylum and stream it live on their online show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, captivating, mystical, mockumentary, slasher, suspense, dark fantasy
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Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is an ancient ritual known to humankind for more than a hundred years...According to the legend, an ominous entity known as The Queen of Spades can be summoned by drawing a door and staircase on a mirror in the darkness, and by saying her name three times. The Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects; she cuts locks of hair from those asleep, and those that see her go mad or die. Four teenagers decide to call The Queen of Spades as a joke. But when one of them dies of a sudden heart attack, the group realizes they are up against something inexplicable and deadly dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mystical, disturbing, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak
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Ivanna (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ambar & Dika have just begun with a new chapter of life when years-old grudge of a malicious entity unfolds before their eyes. With a gift she unwillingly has, Ambar is now forced to finish the vengeance of the entity, a headless Dutch spirit, Ivanna.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing