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Plot Summary:
Seeking inspiration for a new writing project, a man spends Halloween night in a notoriously haunted house. He soon realizes he is living in his own horror story.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, dark, suspenseful, suspense
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Deadly Crush (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a painter rents a secluded cabin to jump start her creativity, she has sex with a ghost and finds herself part of his plan to bring itself back to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, dark, suspenseful, erotic
Similar in 77%
In Search of Lovecraft (2008)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a Halloween news story on horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, reporter Rebecca Marsh discovers that the "fiction" Lovecraft wrote is actually true and the creatures and cults described in his writings really exist.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, lovecraft, offbeat, independent film
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10/31 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Halloween treat bag of all the things that go bump in the night. From masked killers to scarecrows, witches and tricksters. There’s a scare for everyone in this anthology of horror and the macabre from the creators of ‘The Barn’ and ‘Volumes of Blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, spooky
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Bad Apples (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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616 Wilford Lane (2021)
Plot Summary:
A grieving man relocates his two teen daughters to a charming town and into their dream home. Quickly the dream becomes an inescapable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Dark Harvest II: The Maize (2004)
Plot Summary:
A father's psychic abilities are put to the test when his two daughters are trapped inside of a corn maze haunted by the spirits of two young girls who disappeared a year earlier.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, independent film
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Grave Halloween (2013)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, suspense
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Against the Devil (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic death of her eldest son, Blanca and her family travel to the coast of Chile. Weird things happen in the new house, Blanca thinks that it is her son trying to communicate with them, but the truth is much worse. An evil spirit with a thirst for revenge is stalking them. Only the town priest can help them, but the man of the cloth is hiding a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror
Country: Chile
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful
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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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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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The Houses October Built 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton - a group who take "extreme haunt" to another level - five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mockumentary
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
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Terrified (2017)
Plot Summary:
Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky, psychological horror, psychological, atmospheric, dark, slasher
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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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Circus Kane (2017)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive circus master invites a group of social media stars to his house of haunts. Anyone who can make it out before being scared into submission will earn $250,000 - but the stars soon learn they are not only competing for money, but also fighting for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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On Halloween (2020)
Plot Summary:
A journalist goes in search of the truth after a series of brutal deaths and disappearances lead back to an urban legend about a serial killing clown that has stalked the woods of Century Park for over a hundred years.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Creature Feature (2015)
Plot Summary:
Creature Feature is five interwoven tales of terror that occur one foggy Halloween night in Georgia. A babysitter learns a new appreciation for fine art and hard lesson about the consequences of being irresponsible...and naughty!; a group of college kids stumble on the mother of all Scarecrows; two teenagers are forced to steal from the wrong cantankerous old hermit who has been known to occasionally howl at the moon; a murdered father comes back for vengeance against his gold-digging wife and traitorous children; and all of this Halloween fun is made possible by a London Gentleman known as..."Jack".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, compilation film
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Scariest Night of Your Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends have theirs whilst visiting a horror experience.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Plot Summary:
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a sense that something evil is taking over the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic
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The Candy Witch (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two ghost hunters are called upon a distressed family who claim they are being tormented by an evil spirit known in their local town as The Candy Witch. But as the mystery of her curse is uncovered, surprising and sinister turns are discovered around The Candy Witch's identity. Their hardest case yet, can they solve this evil curse before more people are killed by the demonic spirit?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, dark, intense, psychotronic
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, demonic, slasher, gothic horror, horror comedy
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All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark, psychotronic, scary, psychological, slasher, dark fairy tale, slasher horror
Similar in 79%
House of Fears (2007)
Plot Summary:
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak, psychological, psychotronic, dread
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Behind You (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, suspense, dark, suspenseful
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Jack-O (1995)
Plot Summary:
A long long time ago a wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on the townsfolk that did him in, particularly Arthur Kelly's family. Arthur had done the final graces on him when he came back to life as Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man. The Kellys proliferated through the years, and when some devil-may-care teens accidentally unleash Jack-O, young Sean Kelly must stop him somehow as his suburban world is accosted and the attrition rate climbs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror, campy
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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
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
Plot Summary:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, demonic, splatter, stylized, rough, psychological, slasher
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Terrifier 2 (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, sinister, atmospheric, brutal, bloody, dark, splatter