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Plot Summary:
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychotronic
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At the Devil's Door (2014)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychological thriller, grindhouse, creepy, spooky, twisted, surprise ending
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Midnight Offerings (1981)
Plot Summary:
Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, black and white, spooky, hood
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Burned At The Stake (1982)
Plot Summary:
In 1692 a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, accuses several residents of being witches, and they are burned at the stake. In 1980 a young woman who is a descendant of the accuser finds herself having recurring nightmares about the incident and comes to believe she is being terrorized by the ghost of the father of the women who were burned as witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychotronic, independent film
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The Returning (1991)
Plot Summary:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)
Plot Summary:
A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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House of the Black Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Ghost Story (1974)
Plot Summary:
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Zap (2002)
Plot Summary:
After losing one of their members to graduation, a sorority of altruistic witches must choose a new student for their coven. When Alexis is spurned for the spot, she immediately exacts revenge on the sorority by killing them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, dark comedy
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Fear No Evil (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, spooky, crime thriller
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Spirits Among Us (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mark, Janice and their young daughter Julie have lived in their home about two months. Strange things begin to happen, first just annoying, then becoming terrifying. Television sets go on and off by themselves, strange noises in the attic, movement in the shadows, light bulbs bursting, unexplained voices, terrifying dreams, and dolls that seem to have a mind of their own. Being a self-sufficient independent do-it-yourself kind of man, Mark tries to "fix it" with his own resources. Only after being brought to near death does he realize he needs the power of the Holy Spirit through the authority of Jesus Christ to rid their home of this malevolent spirits.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, christian film, christian horror
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Witchouse III: Demon Fire (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves her abusive boyfriend to go and stay with her two best friends, documentary makers Stevie & Rose. After an evening of sipping wine in the hot-tub, the three women decide to dabble in a bit of black magic as part of Stevie's latest project, an in-depth expose on contemporary witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
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The Amityville Terror (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a new family moves to an old house in Amityville, they are tormented and tortured by an evil spirit living in the home while trapped by the malicious townspeople who want to keep them there.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, independent film
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Carnage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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The Witching (2016)
Plot Summary:
With Halloween only hours away, the members of a popular podcast, The Witching Hour, gather to swap scary stories in the dark. But they bargain for more than just ratings when they venture to the site where the Woodland Valley Witch was brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Haunting of M. (1979)
Plot Summary:
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman's description of the "visitor", Marianna's sister decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Stranger in Our House (1978)
Plot Summary:
A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no good. This TV horror movie had the title "Stranger in Our House" when it was originally released by NBC on Halloween night in 1978. When released on VHS in the late 1980s, the title was changed to "Summer of Fear", which is the title of the Lois Duncan book on which it is based.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, satanic, spooky, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Witches' Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple traveling thorugh the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, psychotronic, cult film
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The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
Plot Summary:
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, humorous, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
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Seance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over Thanksgiving weekend, all but five students in an old Manhattan building that's now a college dormitory leave for home: staying on one floor are roommates Lauren, Melina, and Alison, plus her boyfriend Diego and Grant, a loner in a room down the hall. Lauren's been seeing things in her bathroom: a silent child of about six. Diego has written a paper on parapsychology, so he holds a séance with the disbelieving co-eds. Something goes awry, because bad things start to happen and the students' only defender is an aging campus cop named Syd. What's the silent ghostly girl's secret, and can Alison discover what's going on before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror, scary, slasher, semi serious
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Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)
Plot Summary:
The demonic force lurking in Amityville for over 300 years escapes to a remote California mansion. It encounters a struggling family living together by uncertain means. The beast manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father. Soon it will be able to possess her completely... is it too late for a young priest to defeat the demon and end the curse?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spooky, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, eighties, corny
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The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Plot Summary:
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic, odd
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American Horror House (2012)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Alone in the Ghost House (2015)
Plot Summary:
A minor celebrity and her husband head out on the road to investigate the most haunted house in America for their very own reality show, but upon arriving at the Devil's Commune things become worse than they could have ever imagined. They wanted fame, they found HELL.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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An English Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s England, Blake Cunningham and his alcoholic mother are forced to move into the mysterious Clemonte Hall, a vast isolated manor house, to care for his dying Grandfather who resides in the attic room. Soon, ghostly goings-on fill the house with dread, as it becomes apparent Grandfather's illness may have a supernatural cause that can only be cured by uncovering the terrifying secrets of the house and its dark history.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful
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Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has inhabited their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, spooky, independent film, serious, psychotronic, sexy
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic