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Plot Summary:
While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher Mrs. Park startles and calls the young teacher Eun-young Hur, telling her that the deceased Jin-ju Jang is back. The line dies and Mrs. Park is attacked and killed by a ghost. On the next morning, the teenager Jae-yi Yoon waits for her friend Ji-oh Lim, who has the ability to call the spirits, and they begin a close friendship. The abusive and aggressive Mr. Oh, a.k.a. Mad Dog, is the substitute of Mrs. Park and prohibits Ji-oh to paint and compares the performances of the pretty So-young Park and the weird Jung-sook Kim, raising a barrier between the two former friends. Miss Hur misses her former friend Jin-ju, who committed suicide, and while trying to contact her, she discloses a dark secret about the past of her friend and Mrs. Park.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, serious
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While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and hears her whispering for help. Together with her boyfriend Nuno and Agata's mate Omar, they return to the km 31 of the road, and find out that the place is surrounded by supernatural accidents caused by the ghost of a mother that lost her boy many years ago. Further, Catalina discloses that the spirit of Agata is trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, splatter, psychotronic, lovecraft, post modern
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Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, teen horror
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A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark drama
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A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, asian horror
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Dorothy Mills (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, terrifying, mind bending, spooky
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Death Bell (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the dreaded university entrance examinations, the lives of 24 of the smartest and brightest students at one high school, are on the line. Locked inside a classroom and nowhere to escape, a television monitor broadcasts a terrified Hae-yeong, the top student at the high school, tied up and seated on a chair inside an aquarium that slowly begins to fill with water. A voice from the monitor announces if the 24 cannot finish the exam administered within the allotted time given, Hae-yeong will die and so will everyone held captive inside the classroom. Thus begins the examination that will determine whether they live or die.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspense, disturbing, realistic
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Plot Summary:
Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un finds out that on the night of the incident, Soy, Eugene, Eun-young, Unjoo, the four of them had tried to commit a joint suicide after making a vow on blood. But the three are still alive, and only Unjoo had died. the desire, jealousy, and lies behind the pledge of death between the four girls are revealed, along with the hidden truth behind Unjoo’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful
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A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary, serious, realistic, asian horror
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Acacia (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense
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Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yu-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky, realistic, sinister, asian horror
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Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some investigating and discovers that of the people before her who had the same number, almost all of them died suddenly under unusual circumstances. As Yeong-ju's behavior becomes increasingly alarming, Ji-won digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the number's first owner, a high school girl named Jin-hie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, splatter, art house, creepy, atmospheric
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Fingerprints (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher
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The Sight (2000)
Plot Summary:
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, spiritual, esoteric
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Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, slasher, independent film, scary, tense, serious, surprise ending
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Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
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Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After Sam is hospitalized, Sarah consults with a pharmacist who's well-informed about Chinese mythology and who tells her that supernatural forces threaten her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, scenic
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, rough, slasher, serious
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Plot Summary:
A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, hood, suspense, crying
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Sorum (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mind bending, serious
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Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and passed away. He finds a job as mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector Rodriguez and tries to rebuild his life. However, he is deemed an outcast and his former friends and neighbors do not want to talk to him. He meets his f.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, demonic, psychological horror, twisted, realistic, weird
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
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Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to explain why his father abandoned his family?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
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Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 68000
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Lake Mungo (2008)
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16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
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