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Plot Summary:
Epecuén was one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Thousands of people concurred, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the village was submerged under ten meters of salt water. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. The plot revolves around a group of young people that take a trip to the ruins in order to film a documentary about Epecuén. Ignoring the warnings, and after a brief tour, they get stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary to what they thought, they begin to realize that they are really not alone….
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, brutal, slasher horror, slasher
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What the Waters Left Behind: Scars (2022)
Plot Summary:
An Anglo-American indie rock band winds up stranded in Epecuén, where their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly lose importance before the hell that awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Horror
Country: New Zealand, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Veneciafrenia (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of spanish tourists in Venice finds themselves fighting for their lives against locals that are not too keen on foreigners.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, captivating, disturbing, gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, slasher horror
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Corpse Prison: Part 1 (2017)
Plot Summary:
From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated community? Despite the fact that Mayor Amano and the other all male residents have enthusiastically welcomed her and the other three coeds attending Professor Ashihara’s overnight seminar, Mikoto can’t shake the sense of increasing dread that consumes her. Something horrible has happened here. Something that is about to happen again. Because the town has been waiting for her. And the other girls. From the pages of the hit online manga published in Web Comic Gamma, the nightmare is about to begin!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bizarre, asian horror
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Dark Sea (2013)
Plot Summary:
A strange black spot approaches the coast, bringing death and destruction to a fishing village. In a desperate flight to escape the chaos, lonely Albino fights for the great love of his life at the risk of his own soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scary, exciting, touching, disturbing, horror comedy
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Butchers (2020)
Plot Summary:
A family of sadistic butchers lives deep inside the backcountry. From the dead of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, sadistic, bloody, road movie, slasher horror
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Star Vehicle (2010)
Plot Summary:
"Star Vehicle" follows the downward spiral of movie driver Donald Cardini, a self-professed movie buff with a penchant for explosive violence when provoked. Driving the stars of low-budget movies, along with their fragile egos, to and from locations in the middle of nowhere, pushes Don's buttons in all of the wrong directions. When Luke, the young and self-absorbed writer/director challenges Don's authority, murder and mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, tense, rough, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, suspense
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X Moor (2014)
Plot Summary:
With their sights set on a £25,000 reward promoted by a local newspaper, American documentarians Georgia and Matt head to Exmoor in North Devon to film the fabled beast supposedly slinking through the remote terrain. Is the creature a leopard, a panther, a family pet crossbreed, an imaginary predator? Setting up a forest camp with an old acquaintance harbouring his own dark secrets, the trio fix 42 cameras to the trees and rocks, linked back to a computer nerve centre where nothing should go unnoticed as they take turns to night watch. But then they discover some putrefying body parts all neatly tied up… then some more. And before long they realise they are in the lair of a beast right enough, but certainly not one of the four-legged variety. For they have discovered a serial killer’s playground and are soon to become his most wanted prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Manhunt (2008)
Plot Summary:
Its the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened of somethingbut what she cant begin to describe in her carsick terror. Suddenly the group are ambushed and left unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, brutal, bloody, suspense, disturbing, creepy
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Blood Runs Cold (2011)
Plot Summary:
Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, bloody, psychotronic, scary, psychological
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One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, brutal, serious, awful
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Mysterious Island (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s on the Binlusai islands, a young mother is killed when she was running with her son run from an evil presence in an abandoned Roman Catholic leper colony. In the present day, a group of four young men and women are travelling to the island to take part in a survival game run by TV channel Search Planet headed by Chen Jiadong (Philip Keung). Also on the boat is the television presenter Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam). The eight people have been split into four pairs where they are given a map which leads to a flag; their aim is to survive without any supplies, and the winning duo gets a grand prize of one-million dollars. As they approach the island, their ship is attacked by something unknown under the water and most of their luggage is lost. Shen Yilin (Mini Yang) has preserved her map which she gives to her partner Peng Fei (Jordan Chan).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
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Three Days in the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone love camping in the woods. It's usually a calm, relaxing getaway. For five friends, it's the perfect way to send off one of their own. Amongst the partying and debauchery comes something much more sick and depraved. The five friends find themselves hunted by unknown killers. With the woods working against them, will they fall one by one or will they survive the next Three Days in the Woods? Mad Angel Films and Wicked Six Productions show you a glimpse of the evil that lie within the innocuous. Directed by Matthew A. Peters and written by Mark Joseph Peek, Three Days in the Woods will shock and disgust you. We promise.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, grindhouse, slasher horror
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, rough, realistic, disturbing
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The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, surreal
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The Blood Shed (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sweet little tale about your average inbred, hillbilly, cannibal family residing in the northern part of New Jersey and how they deal with the day-to-day annoyances of encroaching suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Red Velvet (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man and a young woman have a chance encounter at a laundry mat which leads to a story about a birthday party where everyone has been killed by a madman in a white jumpsuit.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, spooky, independent film, bizarre
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lost After Dark (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, atmospheric, sexy, teen horror, slasher horror, retro
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100 Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, bloody, suspense
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The Blackburn Asylum (2015)
Plot Summary:
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Bastard (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, disturbing, perverse, bizarre
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The Sadness (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the spread of the new virus, people all over the world are becoming numb to the virus. No one believes that the mutation of the virus and the Tibet crisis are coming. Junzhe and his girlfriend Kai Ting discuss when the epidemic will end, but life remains as usual. One morning, after Junzhe drove Kai Ting to work and separated, the two witnessed attacks by unknown thugs: including the breakfast shop owner being beaten and bitten by his grandmother, the neighbor next door ran into the street with a weapon, and frequent riots in various places. , Panic and screams spread throughout the city. Infected anomalous humans are everywhere, and bloody pictures of being tortured and killed are all over the street. Who can survive the horror of murder? How can Junzhe find a way to survive and save his beloved girlfriend who has gone missing?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, scary, psychological, slasher, brutal, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, contemplative
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Plank Face (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is taken captive by a feral family in the deep woods. They are determined to transform him, body and mind, into one of their own -- whether he likes it or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, sexy
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Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
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Escape from Cannibal Farm (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the British countryside, the Harver family head out on an idyllic summer camping trip where they can bury past tensions and enjoy some family bonding. But when their camp is sabotaged by an unseen intruder in the night, they head to the nearby creepy old farm desperate for help, where vengeful farmer Hunt Hansen and his hideously deformed son aren't farming animals... Caged and waiting for their limbs to be severed, cooked and eaten one at a time, the Harver family must overcome their differences and unite in order to escape alive!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic, bloody, splatter, creepy, tense, suspense
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Honeydew (2020)
Plot Summary:
Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, sadistic, scary, brutal, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing, weird
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Headless (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, suspense, controversial, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, bloody, extreme horror
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Hostel: Part II (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal, splatter, disturbing, psychological, suspense, sexy
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense