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Plot Summary:
Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up one morning, they see a peacock and the cottage has been transformed into a beautiful palace.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychedelic
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Hypersomnia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, unusual plot structure, bleak, contemplative, erotic, psychological horror
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The Three Trials (2006)
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Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic surgeon, has evolved from a yeti-like creature to accommodate her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative, music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish, pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychedelic, experimental, cult film
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The Samurai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, detective, grindhouse, dark drama
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Krozon Lake (2017)
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Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: India, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
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A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, queer horror, non-linear, art house, weird
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Caregiver (2007)
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When Paige Hopkins begins working at a halfway house for degenerate teenage girls, she believes that her syrupy sweet disposition is just what the girls need to find their path to redemption. But these hardened street girls show Paige that she couldn't be more out of place. So Paige quickly adapts to their ways - which includes beatings, torture and even murder - all delivered with a smile. Gradually, it becomes clear that she may be more troubled than any of her charges. Written by Brain Damage Films.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Sacrifice (2020)
Plot Summary:
Isaac and his pregnant wife visit a remote Norwegian village to claim an unexpected inheritance. The couple finds themselves caught in a nightmare when they encounter a sinister cult that worships a sea-dwelling deity.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, lovecraft, enigmatic, captivating, mysterious, suspenseful
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13 Seconds (2003)
Plot Summary:
A rock band gathers at an abandoned schoolhouse to record their latest album, but there is something sinister waiting for them.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing
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Secret of Slenderman 3 (2016)
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As the protagonist is haunted by nightmares caused by the events of first two movies, he decides to kill Slender Man to end the nightmare once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, independent film, mockumentary, amateur film
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Bikini Mayhem (2015)
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All Ivy Winters wanted was to be a model. After meeting with a potential agent, it seemed like her career was finally on the right path. But she soon finds herself drugged and humiliated. With her life spiraling out of control, Ivy is on the fast track to destruction. When tragedy strikes, she quickly realizes it's time to enact bloody revenge on those who destroyed her dreams. It's time for a little...Bikini Mayhem!.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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Gaia (2021)
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On a surveillance mission in a primordial forest, a park ranger encounters two survivalists following a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. The boy and his philosophical father seem to have their own religion, and a mysterious relationship to nature. There are many suspicious aspects to their existence, but when the cabin is attacked by strange, post-human beings one night, she learns that there is a greater threat in this emergent wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark fantasy, splatter, mystical, weird
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Quiet Comes the Dawn (2019)
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Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid dream». But at the dawn, they will awake to a completely different reality that is more horrifying than any nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, suspense, psychedelic
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Re-cycle (2006)
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Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, mindfuck, mind bending, surreal, scary, atmospheric, clever
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Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999)
Plot Summary:
A college student unexpectedly finds that she has inherited a derelict house. Accompanied by a group of friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Muse (2017)
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Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, dark, dark fantasy, independent film, mystic
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The Oregonian (2011)
Plot Summary:
A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, scary, rough, serious, realistic, surreal, mumblecore, retro, disturbing
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Angels of Darkness (2014)
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Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, suspenseful, tense, spooky, gothic horror, post modern
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Night of the Devils (1972)
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Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Wendigo (2001)
Plot Summary:
George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to take in the winter sights, though the drive up is hardly relaxing for any of them. George accidentally hits and severely injures a deer that ran onto the icy road; after George stops to inspect the damage, he's confronted by an angry local named Otis who flies into a rage, telling George that he and his fellow hunters had been tracking the deer for some time. An argument breaks out, which leaves George feeling deeply shaken.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, psychological, spiritual, psychotronic, spooky, independent film
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The Ghost from Hovrino (2012)
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November 11, 2011 -- four men with a video camera went to Hovrino's forest to make a movie about a ghost. Kirill Alex -- 1981 year of birth. Roman Mirniy -- 1981 year of birth. Anton Vaganov -- 1981 year of birth. Artem Varanov -- 1990 year of birth. They left Moscow around 8 a.m. and supposedly will arrive at Hovrino's forest around noon. Six miles from Hovrino's forest on Ryazan's highway, Anton Vaganov's jeep was found. Inside his jeep Kirill Alex's video camera was found. There was a tape inside this camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychotronic, independent film, mockumentary, mystic
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Severed Footage (2012)
Plot Summary:
Twelve severed feet in running shoes found on the shores of Western Canada have baffled Police. A videotape is leaked anonymously from the authorities. This paranormal thriller may solve the mystery of the severed feet.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, disturbing
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Body at Brighton Rock (2019)
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When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, mumblecore, crime drama, spooky
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Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elliot (Peter Tullio), Warren (Philip Marlatt) and Terry (Melanie Rose Wilson) dabble in Satanism and hold a ritual in an abandoned woods. When nothing happens, they return to their car only to find that it won't start. An accident happens, leaving Terry injured. Seeing a distant light through the trees, Elliot hikes toward the light to seek assistance, leaving Warren to watch over Terry. Terry disappears and Warren becomes frightened. He hikes into the woods seeking Elliot and encounters hillbilly seductress Jenny (Vanity Meers) and her inbred father Ned (Michael Q. Schmidt)... but things are not what they appear as they meet the entity raised by their earlier ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, experimental, psychedelic, bleak, offbeat, surreal, semi serious, independent film
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Horsehead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspense, dark, disturbing, grindhouse
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Suzzanna: Kliwon Friday Night (2023)
Plot Summary:
Suzzanna and her fiancé, Surya, plan to get married soon, but their plans fall apart when Suzzanna has to pay her father's debt, by marrying Raden Aryo, the ruler of the village. On the night of Kliwon Friday, the day Suzzanna gave birth, something terrible happened. Suzzanna's baby was born through her back. Suzzanna's death awakens the terrible Sundel Bolong, who will grip her enemies with fear and take back her child. Can Sundel Bolong protect and get her baby back? And can Suzzanna and Surya be reunited?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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The Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, dark, suspenseful, weird
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The Ritual (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, spooky, disturbing, scary, tense, enigmatic, slasher, lovecraft, atmospheric
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Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Plot Summary:
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, fairy tale, suspense, dark fantasy, captivating, scary, art house, atmospheric, gothic, bloody
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The Witch (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 291000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, scary, gothic, psychological, suspense, satanic, enigmatic
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Friday the 13th (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, brutal, splatter, teen, erotic