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Plot Summary:
To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, psychological, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, clever, atmospheric, serious
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Ghost Train (2006)
Plot Summary:
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mind bending, lovecraft
Similar in 84%
Red Eye (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a new stewardess joins the night shift crew of the train, she find that some mystic events become occur during the train night run. As the film goes we see that the train has more hidden secrets that lead to a suspicion that it might be linked to the crash of the same train several years ago. The 'spooky' train becomes a living thing and slowly starting to claim victims. Will the lady be able to stop this or all of the people aboard this train doomed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, splatter, rough
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The Portal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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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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Maniac on the Loose (2008)
Plot Summary:
A patient described as "Extremely Dangerous" has escaped from the local psychiatric hospital. Fearing that he'll lose his job if word gets out, the head of the hospital, Dr. Franklin Grimm, desperately attempts to cover up the escape. Meanwhile, there is a Maniac on the Loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, slasher, tense, psychological, suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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The Heiress (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Bio Slime (2010)
Plot Summary:
Seven misfits are trapped by a flesh eating slime creature. And no TV!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, psychotronic
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Cursed (2004)
Plot Summary:
Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher
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Teke Teke (2009)
Plot Summary:
The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, asian horror
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Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki household who tells her about what happened to her sister. Mai will now uncover the dark secrets of Ju-on and will try to end the curse once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, enigmatic
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The Child's Eye (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of breaking up, Ling (Elanne Kwong) and her brother Rex (Rex Ho), and Ciwi (Ciwi Lam) and her boyfriend Hei (Izz Xu). Their driver takes them to the old Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen (Lam Ka-tung), where strange things start happening as soon as they arrive: Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling a disembodied hand. At dinner that night, the three men mysteriously disappear. Under Rainie's leadership, the three girls - helped by the young Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang - set out to try and find them in the hotel's underground passages, in between being haunted by the female ghost and a strange monster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense, saga, scary, atmospheric
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Tomie: Unlimited (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back. Little by little, Tomie will start to show her darkest side to Tsukiko, making her nightmares come to life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, disturbing, splatter, corny, asian horror
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, serious
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Ghost Theater (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fear House (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests Samantha's pledge, the remaining guests sink into horror. If they want to leave Fear House alive, this desperate group must act fast in writer-director Michael R. Morris's claustrophobic spook fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Something Sinister (2014)
Plot Summary:
Amelia's claustrophobic life with Aunt Helen is disrupted when her past tries to push through to her present.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Shattered Lives (2009)
Plot Summary:
Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her adulterous mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, powerful, scary, serious
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Giving Up Forever (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Adolf, a 38 year old man with a history of being rejected by women seeks revenge against the people who have bullied him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood Curse II: Asmodeus Rises (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alicia Stone returns in this gore-drenched sequel. Having lost all hope, husband Jason calls on the help of Paranormal TV host Tyson to confront the demonic forces that have plagued the Stone household.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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Premonition (2004)
Plot Summary:
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, scary
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Plot Summary:
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in apartment 1303. She finds a book telling the tragic story of the Yukiyo and her mother, the first tenants of the apartment and uncovers the truth behind the suicides.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, detective
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Madres (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Abigail Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Nailbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky
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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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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, splatter
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
Plot Summary:
An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, terrifying
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Vanished: Age 7 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mayu the teen girl hasn’t opened her heart to anyone since ten years ago when some terrible case happened. Instead of going to high school, she goes to the church every day and looks for redemption. One day, she disappears in the woods, silently and suddenly. On the other side, Mana lives with her husband and her seven-year-old daughter in happiness. However, an unexpected occurrence happens and tears their happiness apart. Her little girl Sakura plays in the woods and goes missing. Mana loses her mind because of sadness. What is there inside the woods?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, mind bending
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Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Plot Summary:
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy, bleak