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Plot Summary:
Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, erotic, brutal, slasher
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Dead Nude Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man obsessed with bird-watching takes on a new hobby, killing young ladies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, controversial
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She Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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The Demolisher (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bruce is a repairman tormented by a crippling sense of responsibility for his disabled wife Samantha, an ex-policewoman. Bruce’s increasing hypersensitivity to the injustice suffered by his wife steers him down a dark path of vigilantism. His disintegrating mental health, paranoia and overwhelming sense of doom causes Bruce to channel his rage towards a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, weird, psycho film
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Emmanuelle's Revenge (1975)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo. So she chains Carlo up in her basement, drugs him, and forces him to watch her having sex. As Carlo begins to hallucinate all kinds of bloody horrors and cannibalistic doings, he decides he has to break free and kill Emanuelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, suspense, sensual, queer horror, sexploitation film
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Violation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, transgressive, weird
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Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, controversial, serious, sexual, suspense, slasher, cult classic, philosophical, psychedelic
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The Furies (2019)
Plot Summary:
A gripping female-driven horror film where a young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game. A game that can only have one winner. The film burrows into universal themes of survival, revenge and redemption, and reveals the darkness lurking within us all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, psychological, brutal, exciting, tense, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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7 Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, psychological thriller, bloody, heartbreaking
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The House by the Lake (1976)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, realistic
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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We Are Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, retro, suspense
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Scrapbook (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, controversial, bloody, suspense, dark, intense
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Hidden in the Woods (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, controversial, perverse, scary
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I Spill Your Guts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two friends Dennis and Joe join the military together. While on a routine mission, the two are quickly surrounded by enemy fire. When Joe stands up in the line of fire to run, Dennis pushes him out of the way and takes a bullet in the throat. Dennis wakes up in hospital to find Joe rewarded as a hero. Joe told a lie and took all the glory, and Dennis was left as a mute from the accident. Dennis can't talk, but actions speak louder then words. The two return home to N.Y. and now the war rages in the streets. Dennis wants revenge on Joe, so he will kill everyone close to him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Captives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sandy has stumbled onto a lair of torture and humiliation. She was abducted and brought to this pit of pain as the next intended victim. But Sandy overthrows her captor and kills him. Does she release the other prisoners? Does she call the police? No. Her mind snaps and she assumes control over the prisoners, taking them as her own playtoys. Naked bodies writhe in ecstasy as blood runs down the walls in this chilling tale of madness and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sadistic, explicit, rough, retro, bloody, slasher, controversial, perverse, erotic, independent film
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Excess Flesh (2015)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Storm Warning (2007)
Plot Summary:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, serious, brutal, disturbing, bloody, dark
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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological, controversial, grindhouse, atmospheric, depressing, dark comedy
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Bedevilled (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, slasher, bloody, psychological thriller, dark, splatter, scary
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Path (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ana is a young woman who has just been given a scholarship to study in a foreign country. She decides to celebrate with their friends out of the city. On the road, after helping an injured woman, they are kidnapped by a weird family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Things go horribly wrong when Catherine and Rebecca, two Catholic School girls, knock on the wrong door while selling Religious paraphernalia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, grindhouse, brutal, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological thriller
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I'll Never Die Alone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A violent thriller set in the outback of remote La Plata region, I'LL NEVER DIE ALONE (aka NO MORIRE SOLA) is a tough and pounding story of revenge for rape, mercilessly carried out by a group of women intent on pursuing their attackers to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, twisted, realistic, retro, depressing, controversial, serious, splatter
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
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I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, tortured and kidnapped to a foreign country, Jessica is buried alive and left to die. Against all odds, she manages to escape. Severely injured, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive, but to exact her revenge….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, bloody, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, controversial, splatter, intense
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We Are What We Are (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, serious, intense
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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, bloody, sadistic, splatter, slasher, brutal, rough, suspenseful
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The Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, twisted, controversial, psychological thriller, bloody
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, grindhouse
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led by Johnny, the town's service station owner, his two co-workers, Andy and Stanley, who along with their socially and mentally challenged friend Matthew, set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, bloody, controversial, harsh