Best tv shows like The Holzer Files
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Plot Summary:
Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment expert Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth investigate terrifyingly true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America's first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful, creepy
Best tv shows and movies like The Holzer Files (2019):
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Accidental Exorcist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fate has dealt Richard Vanuck a very strange hand; he's a natural born exorcist. In fact, he's the best there's ever been, and with possessions on the rise across the city he's booked solid. Eventually he comes to realize that performing exorcisms is the only thing he's truly good at, even though his daily battles with Satanic forces are wearing him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Hell Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
A demonic creature not of this world impregnates a woman. 160 years later a team of ghost hunters must set aside their quick buck party mentality when they discover one of their team is the offspring of the entity haunting the place - and its true target. The offspring and her friends become uneasy allies with the ghost of the mother to destroy the demon and restore harmony.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky
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Mansion of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire Mason Murphy renovates the haunted Mayhew mansion. He plans a tremendous lunar eclipse viewing party to celebrate his return to his hometown of River Ridge Iowa. At the party, magic runs out of control and the party guests are murdered one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic
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Paranormal 911 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A shocking number of 911 emergencies end in paranormal encounters. Paranormal 911 explores these events through eye-witness accounts of the first responders who lived them. This gripping drama-doc takes viewers into the unexpected paranormal encounters of first responders.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: scary, mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Within These Walls (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prisoner in her own home, a captive in her own body. Assaulted and trapped with no one to hear her cries for help... and knowing no one will believe her if they do. This is the terrifying reality Alaina finds herself in when she moves in to the house her mother died in. At first she thinks it's the loss of her mother that is haunting her, but she is soon shown it is something far more malicious and unrelenting. The spirit taunts her as it invades her body, mind, and soul, completely trapping her. Alaina has to fight for answers on what really happened to her mother if she has any hopes of survival. She must find a way to endure this monster who lives and breathes to rob her of her sanity as it demands a savage hold on her.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Brahmarakshas (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small village named Kamalpura's landlord Sanjay marries Aparajita.On their wedding night, she betrays him and pushes him off a cliff for his wealth.Attacked by a gorilla, Sanjay's soul gets enchanted into the Gorilla's body converting him into a Brahmrakshas (a demon).He loses his cool whenever he sees brides with bridal jewellery and vermillion, and kills them as it reminds him of Aparajita.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Are You Scared? (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ryan Bergara reads scary stories to friend Shane Madej, and they guess whether they're "true" or not.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Alone in the Ghost House (2015)
Plot Summary:
A minor celebrity and her husband head out on the road to investigate the most haunted house in America for their very own reality show, but upon arriving at the Devil's Commune things become worse than they could have ever imagined. They wanted fame, they found HELL.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Echoes of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Darkness Reigns (2018)
Plot Summary:
A film crew is ravaged by a demon, who is hell bent on cashing in on a deal he made with someone on set who was seeking fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Dead Ones (2019)
Plot Summary:
For four outcast teens, summer detention means being assigned to clean their high school after a horrific incident. But they are not alone; a macabre gang wearing guises of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - Famine, Pestilence, War and Death - has locked them inside and is hunting them through the school's ravaged hallways. As the four students battle to survive, each must confront the supernatural echoes of past traumas they have struggled to forget - and may be condemned to relive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan MacKinlay is a man trapped inside his home by his own mind. Suffering from agoraphobia, caused by a car accident that took his wife's life; his existence has been reduced to a monotonous repetition of identical days. As his dread and self-loathing escalate, an onslaught of gruesome visions and twisted, waking nightmares begins to gnaw away at his last shred of sanity. Are these ghastly visions imaginary, private demons...or is he being victimized by a very real entity of infinite terror and unspeakable evil?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Evil Things (2017)
Plot Summary:
Revealing the horrifying stories of people who barely survived terrifying paranormal activity caused by possessed or cursed objects. Each twister mystery exposes the sinister secrets hiding within the most innocent items.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark, anthology
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Dabbe 5: Curse of the Jinn (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dilek, a housewife suddenly starts to feel presence of something abnormal in a specific room in their house. Though her husband, Omer refuses to agree with her but situation become worse. They find out that, an ancient paranormal creature called Jinn, has cursed on Dilek. They seek for a way to cure her but instead they find out some shocking event of Dilek's early life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Inhabitants (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple gets more than they bargained for when they buy an historic bed and breakfast in New England only to discover that the old house is hiding a dark secret within its walls.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wraith (2017)
Plot Summary:
After living in an old mansion for almost 10 years a family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them. A super-natural thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing
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Anomaly (2016)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying story of a family that experienced the biggest demonic possession after moving into a house plagued by malicious spirits.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic
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Door to the Other Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return (2019)
Plot Summary:
Several years after a deadly struggle with her serial killer aunt, Jordan works to escape her troubled history. But when her aunt's revenge-seeking specter surfaces to join forces with a deranged convict, Jordan must return to the haunted town of Silver Falls for a final showdown with the ghosts of her past.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brimstone Incorporated (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brimstone Incorporated features three ghoulish tales of terror and a wraparound, the latter centering around a law firm that serves as the gateway to Hell. Stories include Mama's Boy, First Date and Skunk Weed,.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Exit 14 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Laurie, a good-natured college student, embarks on a spring break vacation with her friends Faith, Joey, and her boyfriend Mick. They get off on the ghostly Exit 14 where they befriend a mysterious store clerk and are haunted by the ghost story he shares with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Blackwell Ghost 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker takes a journey to discover a new haunted house and brings along his cameras to document what happens inside. The house, which is plagued by its dark history, begins to come alive in this third instalment of “The Blackwell Ghost.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ju-On: Origins (2020)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Hausen (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a rundown housing complex on the city outskirts. While Jaschek tries to establish a new life for himself and his son, as caretaker of the building, Juri gradually discovers that the house has a vicious life of its own and feeds on the suffering of its inhabitants.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Kafr Delhap (2017)
Plot Summary:
A doctor travels to a damned hamlet, where there are no newborns, with many cases of girls and men possessed by Jinn, all of whom say that there is a woman who speaks to them and that she wants to take revenge on the whole hamlet.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Hungry Ghosts (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatized by war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic