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Plot Summary:
Six people bound together by a traumatic experience decide to round off a year of group therapy in style. They join each other once more, traveling up to the Scottish Lowlands for a reunion weekend in a 1970s holiday let. Soon a number of mysterious and horrifying events start to expose the cracks in their relationships, and one by one they discover that trust runs but skin-deep. A night of closure turns out to be far more final than they could have anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shark Bait (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends enjoying a weekend steal a couple of jetskis racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way home with a badly injured friend while from the waters below predators lurk.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is opened by a dying woman, she enters into a deal with the demon within that would see her illness cured in return for helping it claim six innocent victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
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Respire (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one's body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930's, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes it's contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary
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10 Year Reunion (2016)
Plot Summary:
At their 10-year high school reunion, Carly Newman and her old clique discover that their friend Abby's death right before graduation may not have been an accident after all when an unknown assailant begins to threaten them. Kayla Ewell, Jillian Nelson, Johnny Pacar, Anya Engel-Adams, Abigail Klein, Thea Gill, Bryce Durfee star.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Secrets of Emily Blair (2016)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary
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Creek (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends driving to Las Vegas to attend a Horror convention decide to stop at a roadside attraction promising the opportunity to find gold. After being told about the ghosts who haunt the Creek, they head into the woods to test their luck disbelieving what has been told. Soon the friends decide to leave, but their car is missing and the roadside attraction is permanently closed. The only thing left to do is venture back into the woods and search for their car or anyone that could help, but after one friend finds hidden gold the ghosts of the Creek begins to stalk the group out of vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heebie Jeebies (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (2019)
Plot Summary:
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, mystical, tense
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Fear Therapy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sijjin 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. And this beings don't want anyone in the house, but Saadet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Watcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Unaware of its terrible history, a young couple purchases their dream home. But it soon becomes clear that they may not be alone in the house... and that someone -- or something -- is determined to drive them out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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The 8th Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, dark fantasy, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, perverse, mystical, scary
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General Cemetery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of his father. With the help of his friends from school, encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Unlit (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mystical, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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It Watches (2016)
Plot Summary:
Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ominous sounds and experiencing strange occurrences throughout the house that lead him to believe he is not alone, and that someone, or something is in the house with him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alien Strain (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a camping trip, Matthew's girlfriend Rachel was abducted by a UFO. A year later Rachel returns to the very spot from which she was taken but the creature she has become has Matthew fearing for his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Korean Ghost Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
A series of 8 one-act dramas. It is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which aired first on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. This marks the return of the series after nine years.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Cracked (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, supernatural thriller
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Student Body (2022)
Plot Summary:
High school student Jane Shipley seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt, and fit in with her rebellious peers. When Jane's math teacher oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Torn Hearts (2022)
Plot Summary:
A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing the friends to confront the lengths they will go to in pursuit of their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, grindhouse, psychological thriller, psychological horror, psychological
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The Last Possession (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young family is forced to relocate to the husband's childhood home and believe they are being terrorized by the ghost of the grandfather who committed suicide there only to find out they are horrifyingly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, light
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Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tethered (2022)
Plot Summary:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Advent Calendar (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad... Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again… even if it causes death around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, suspenseful, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, slasher, weird
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Those Who Walk Away (2022)
Plot Summary:
Max and Avery go on their first date after meeting on a social media app. Their evening takes a perilous turn when they end up at a local haunted house, the home of ‘Rotcreep’, a sinister creature that rots your body and soul with one touch.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller
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Basement (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary, offbeat, serious
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Another Soul (2018)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the run battle to save their daughter from possession by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense
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The Assent (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform an exorcism, the devil will soon take full control of his boy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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