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Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Penumbra (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, captivating, surreal, horror comedy, twisted, serious
Similar in 78%
Zephyr Springs (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing incidents has Kayla questioning the perfection around her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary, realistic
Similar in 89%
7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
Similar in 90%
Ring Around the Rosie (2006)
Plot Summary:
While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, slasher, awful
Similar in 86%
Prisoner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
Similar in 81%
Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
Similar in 79%
Closed for the Season (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
Similar in 78%
Detention (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
Similar in 85%
Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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The Life Zone (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped by a mysterious figure, three women find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital. Held against their will for months, the prisoners are faced with life-transforming decisions and must struggle for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, independent film, surprise ending, twist ending
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Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Plot Summary:
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, bleak, psychotronic, teen, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 79%
House Hunting (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two families go to an open house and can't leave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, psychotronic, creepy, spooky, independent film
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Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
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The Squad (2011)
Plot Summary:
The air is thick with tension as a military squad proceeds to the foot of a mountain base, where they're ordered to wait for backup and hold their position. The mountain is shrouded in fog and the men are exhausted. They've been fighting guerrillas on enemy turf for some time, and they're worn down by the stress and anxiety of battle. The men don't want to wait; they want to charge up the hill, fearing that their comrades in the base have been overrun by the guerrillas. The squad's leader tries futilely to keep his men in line while dealing with his insolent second-in-command.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, captivating, scary, atmospheric, rough
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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The Presence (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surreal, spooky, independent film
Similar in 89%
Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, grindhouse, spooky, serious, lovecraft
Similar in 80%
Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, fake documentary
Similar in 90%
Cold Storage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may be dead, but she'll always be true and she'll never grow old - at least as long as he keeps her on ice. When Cathy and Deric show up looking for the missing traveler, Clive takes them both hostage in a sinister bid to hide his ghoulish secret. ~ Jason Buchanan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychological, tense, slasher, twisted, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
Similar in 76%
Schoolgirls in Chains (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, controversial, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Final (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, serious, realistic, slasher, depressing, entertaining
Similar in 79%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, rough, serious, detective
Similar in 89%
The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Plot Summary:
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to examine their "treasure," they unleash the vengeful spirit of an Irish servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners throughout the generations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
Similar in 78%
The Appearing (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
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The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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Rogue River (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, she reluctantly accepts only to forever regret it. The ensuing hours yield nothing but torture, indescribable pain, and horrific agony. If you've seen Misery, you've seen nothing. This movie starts where horror films end and leaves viewers paralysed by fear and disgust.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, realistic, rough, tense, serious, slasher, independent film, interesting