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Plot Summary:
A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Sicilian Vampire (2015)
Plot Summary:
Equal parts Goodfellas and Dusk till Dawn, Sicilian Vampire tells the story of reputed mobster Sonny Traficante who was hoping to get away to the family hunt lodge for a little rest and relaxation and create some memories. Instead, what he got was a night he will never forget. Once there, Sonny is bitten by a bat released from a container of bananas they brought up to the lodge. The bat takes a vicious bite of Sonny's neck and then flies off into the night. From that moment on Sonny is entrusted with powers beyond that of any mortal - supersonic hearing, enhanced sight, and superhuman strength - even the ability to speak to the dead. Because of these heightened senses Sonny now feels a responsibility to right the wrongs in his life, and protect those he loves. At first, he resists these new found powers but in the end he welcomes his fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense, serious, gothic
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The Arc (2016)
Plot Summary:
A secret organization with a hidden agenda sets in motion the beginning of Armageddon. Governments have been infiltrated, law and order become an illusion, and humanity struggles to hang on after horrific events sweep across the world leaving a trail of murder and mayhem in its wake. Special agent Tom Shepard looks for a way to escape the darkness, while his partner, Tyler Cain, looks for a way in. Cain Drags Shepard further and further into the madness where no one can be trusted, and the only hope for humanity lies in the will of an estranged child.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The Queen of Black Magic (2019)
Plot Summary:
Families were terrorized at the orphanage. Someone wants them dead, apparently with black magic that is very deadly. She has a grudge and she was also born because of the sins of the orphans who formed her into the queen of black magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, dark fantasy, creepy
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Blood Ransom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crystal, the girlfriend of Roman, Jeremiah's American boss whom he kidnaps. As Jeremiah's plans fail, Roman sends Bill, a psychopathic hitman after them. Crystal and Jeremiah tread the dangerous path of a love on the run. But as they run farther and as they fall deeper, a dark secret burns even stronger.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Retribution (2017)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal girl falls in love with a fallen angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, satanic
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The Beautiful Fantasy of Final Purpose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, independent film, student film
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Night Rain (2022)
Plot Summary:
An actress is unwittingly hired by her stalker to make an independent movie about a famous unsolved Hollywood murder, but she and her group of young indie filmmakers soon find themselves the subject of their own terror.
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Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wrath Of Souls (2020)
Plot Summary:
A neighborhood is plagued by mysterious tragedies when a young man becomes the conduit for an unknown spirit, the "Aiyai," which lures victims to their chilling fates.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
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Banshee Blacktop, an Irish Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, folk tale, detective
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Paranormal Adoption (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple loses their only child in an accident and subsequently unknowingly adopts an innocent looking little girl with paranormal powers that she uses to fulfill her twisted desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, independent film
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Dinner with the Alchemist (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900s, a wealthy alchemist, Jacques St. Germaine travels to New Orleans to seek help from the legendary voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. When multiple murders are uncovered, Jacques and the quarreling locals butt heads as they try to discover the identity of the killer. Featuring a cast of characters pulled from actual police reports, Dinner With the Alchemist weaves historical fact and imaginative storytelling into a mysterious supernatural drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
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The Whistler: Origins (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is the story of a mysterious specter, which the people of the town have baptized as "El Silbón". In the current age, we know a family made up of Gabriel and Mayra, Ana's parents. Gabriel suspects that his daughter is possessed by the devil since she is trying to kill him. Gabriel asks the priest of his parish for advice, which is the same one Father Giovanni wrote about the Silbón over a hundred years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Venezuela
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense
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Hollow Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Penguin (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rhythm, a pregnant woman, is traumatised by nightmares about the unsolved kidnapping of her first child, Ajay. Soon, she embarks on a harrowing mission to solve the mystery of Ajay's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Ragini MMS (2011)
Plot Summary:
The quintessential couple, Ragini and Uday, set out to have a dirty weekend at a friend's farmhouse on the outskirts of Mumbai. The weekend getaway quickly changes gears as they find themselves in a house that has been rigged with cameras in Big Boss style.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, mockumentary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Occurrence at Mills Creek (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl awakens to a nightmare as her pleas to be seen and heard by her sister are taken as supernatural occurrences in this stylistic and suspenseful short that is now a full-length feature film.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Anomalous (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, psychotronic, thrilling
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Bayou Horror Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigator travels to the South to research a series of deaths connected to a supernatural curse haunting an old Louisiana family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful, independent film, southern gothic, lovecraft, cinema verite
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GH5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a disappointment. Beginning to give up hope, Matt tracks down the only paranormal investigator in history to document the highest level of paranormal activity you can encounter, a GH5. Eager to visit the GH5, Matt runs into a situation when his other brother CJ returns home from active duty. After distancing themselves over the years, CJ tries to strengthen their relationship by joining the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the paranormal is real and CJ's opportunity to reconcile his relationship with his brothers has turned into a night of deceit, loss and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, independent film
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The Drownsman (2014)
Plot Summary:
After almost drowning in a lake, Madison finds herself bound to a life of fear. Unable to describe what happened to her during the moments she was underwater, she begins to develop hydrophobia: an abnormal fear of water. Crippled by her post trauma, Madison attempts to shut out the world but her fear intensifies and she is faced with the vision of a dark figure that haunts her day and night. After watching her struggle for one year with the phobia and visions, Madison's four friends attempt an unconventional intervention in which they accidentally open a floodgate to a dark place where none of them are safe. As Madison and her friends dive deeper into the dark history of this figure that haunts them, it reaches out and begins dragging them to a horrifying place that they can never come back from.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller
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The Old Ways (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Rows (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rows is a psychological thriller, a Gothic fantasy inspired by Grimm's tales. A young woman, Rose, is tasked by her developer father to deliver an eviction notice to a reclusive woman in a ramshackle farmhouse. The woman has strange powers, derived from the house itself. The enchantress puts Rose and her friend, Greta, under a spell. They become lost in a seemingly infinite cornfield and must repeat a series of surreal or terrifying events in order to solve the mystery and break the spell. Rose's father is drawn into the mystery, and Rose's relationship with him is tested. A series of shocking reversals leads to a haunting climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, fairy tale, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Killing Angels (2023)
Plot Summary:
A group of elitists recruit a freelance agent in an attempt to bring down the worlds biggest human trafficking network.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Muse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A painter's life is forever changed when a mythical and deadly spirit from Celtic lore – a Leannán Sí – becomes his muse and lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, fairy tale
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Observance (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cute
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Seven Devils (2015)
Plot Summary:
A series of vignettes that explore the seven deadly sins.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystic
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Offseason (2021)
Plot Summary:
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, atmospheric, slasher, surreal
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Aaron's Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
Single father Aaron fights to save his 12-year-old hemophiliac son after becoming infected with vampire blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Lurking Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Supernatural Drama about an addictive woman who is given a chance at redemption if she accepts Death's offer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic