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Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:46 |
Characters | Teens, Monsters, Serial killers, Pupils, Single mothers |
Plot | Dancing, Investigation, Death, Supernatural, Pursuit |
Place | USA, Small cities |
Time | New Year, Halloween, Winter |
Style | Psychological problems, Action, Atmospheric, Tense, Makes me think |
Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
Characters | Maniacs, Serial killers, Strong women, Killers, Blonde girls |
Plot | Motorcycles, Investigation, Death, Weapon, Internet |
Place | School, Trains, Cemetery, USA |
Style | Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing |
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Singapore, USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
Characters | Demons, Insects, Reporters |
Plot | Survival, Cars, Investigation, Death, Supernatural |
Time | Future |
Style | Heavy, Tense, Depressive, Disturbing |
When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:05 |
Characters | Witch, Mothers, Artists |
Plot | Abduction, Pursuit, Curses, Ghosts, Cheating |
Place | England, London, Mansions |
Style | Heavy, Tense, Depressive, Disturbing |
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | USA, China |
Duration | 02:22 |
Characters | Monsters, Demons, Killers, Students |
Plot | Survival, Friendship, Death, Supernatural, Ghosts |
Place | Party, USA |
Style | Psychological problems, Philosophical, Heavy, Tense, Depressive |
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | horror, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Characters | Family |
Plot | Friendship, Mystery, Death, Supernatural, Curses |
Place | Mansions, Small cities |
Style | Tense, Creepy, Depressive, Disturbing |
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
Plot | Superpowers, Obsession, Death, Supernatural, Mental disorders |
Place | England |
Style | Action, Atmospheric, Tense, Serious, Disturbing |
A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, melodrama, detective |
Country | India |
Characters | Demons |
Plot | Death, Supernatural, Ghosts |
Style | Tense, Serious, Disturbing |
Rehaan and Shaina are newly married as Rehaan gets a job offer as a Venture Capitalist for the East European Finance Company they had actually fallen in love in Romania,Shaina insists Rehan to take up the job while Rehan is reluctant a she has a secret to hide in Romania,Shaina soon experiences paranormal activities but Rehan refuses to believe while on a business trip Rehan receives a frantic call from Shaina requesting for help as she is trapped in telephone booth in a rural area where she had gone to seek help on paranormal activities happening around her.Shaina and Rehaan take the help of a local Priest but he cant help them much,Aditya Shrivastava former lover of Shaina comes to rescue her from the evil spirit.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
Characters | Aliens, Monsters, Serial killers, Demons |
Plot | Investigation, Death, Experiments, Computers, Internet |
Place | Kitchen, USA |
Time | Dark ones, Night |
Style | Tense, Disturbing |
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Singapore |
Duration | 01:19 |
Plot | Mystery, Death, Supernatural, Ghosts |
Place | Psychiatric hospitals |
Style | Psychological problems, Creepy, Depressive, Serious, Disturbing |
HAUNTED CHANGI synopsis: In January of 2010, a group of local filmmakers began exploring the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results. This movie pieces together the original Haunted Changi film crew's footage to tell the full story.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France |
Duration | 02:33 |
Characters | Dogs, Disabled people, Maids |
Plot | Investigation, Mystery, Death, Supernatural, Mystery |
Place | Cemetery, Country houses, Estate |
Style | By books, Depressive |
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA |
Characters | Serial killers, Sisters |
Plot | Revenge, Death, Supernatural, Inheritance, Ghosts |
Place | Castle, Lake, Mansions, Estate |
Style | Exciting, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing |
A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a family where everyone has a secret converge in one night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first feature film.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, horror, fantasy, comedy |
Country | USA |
Characters | Serial killers, Teens, Demons, Killers, Blonde girls |
Plot | Supernatural, Fate, Scary stories, Justice, Funeral |
Place | Small cities |
Time | Dark ones |
Style | Unexpected ending, Tense, Black humor, Creepy, Depressive |
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Germany, South Africa |
Duration | 01:38 |
Characters | Witch, Friends |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Death, Pursuit, Witchcraft |
Place | College |
Style | Unexpected ending, Heavy, Tense, Depressive |
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, crime, detective |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:31 |
Characters | Serial killers, Shamans, Orphans |
Plot | Pursuit, Intrigue, Curses, Ghosts, Missing people |
Style | Unexpected ending, Action, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing |
After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:28 |
Characters | Teens, Monsters, Demons, Family |
Plot | Survival, Death, Supernatural, Life after death, Witchcraft |
Time | Dark ones |
Style | Atmospheric, Tense, Creepy |
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:05 |
Characters | Serial killers |
Plot | Apocalypse, Investigation, Death, Supernatural, Mystery |
Place | USA |
Time | Future, Post apocalypse, Winter |
Style | Tense, Creepy |
A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | Canada, France |
Duration | 01:37 |
Characters | Teens, Serial killers, Family |
Plot | Death, Supernatural, Life after death, Recurring day, Mystery |
Place | Parallel worlds, USA |
Style | Atmospheric, Tense, Depressive, Serious, Disturbing |
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Characters | Fathers, Terminally ill, Nurses, Mothers |
Plot | Superpowers, Mystery, Supernatural, Mental disorders, Ghosts |
Place | England, Mansions |
Style | Psychological problems, Atmospheric, Depressive, Disturbing |
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
Characters | Maniacs, Serial killers, Killers, Miners |
Plot | Survival, Death |
Place | Small cities |
Style | Unexpected ending, Atmospheric, Tense, Disturbing |
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:03 |
Characters | Pregnant |
Plot | Revenge, Relationship, Obsession, Supernatural, Life after death |
Place | Parallel worlds, Hospitals |
Style | Exciting, Tense, Depressive, Disturbing |
After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:41 |
Characters | Teens, Monsters, Clowns, Pupils, Fathers |
Plot | Abduction, Mystery, Death, Supernatural, Pursuit |
Place | USA |
Style | Unexpected ending, Psychological problems, Tense, Creepy, Serious |
Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:22 |
Characters | Monsters, Demons |
Plot | Loneliness, Death, Supernatural, Pursuit, Religious |
Time | Dark ones |
Style | Atmospheric, Tense, Gothic, Serious, Disturbing |
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | Spain, USA |
Duration | 02:11 |
Characters | Serial killers, Twins, Friends, Brothers, Fathers |
Plot | Love, Mystery, Death, Dolls, Mental disorders |
Place | Beach |
Style | Unexpected ending, Action, Twisted plot, Tense |
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Plot | Death, Supernatural, Ghosts |
Style | Psychological problems, Atmospheric, Tense, Depressive, Serious |
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
Characters | Zombie, Werewolf, Demons, Revived toys, Chickens |
Plot | Supernatural, Dolls, Ghosts |
Style | Tense, Depressive, Disturbing |
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, comedy, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Characters | Maniacs, Serial killers, Killers |
Plot | Survival, Fight, Friendship, Curses, Rivalry |
Place | Summer camp |
Style | Action, Fascinating, Tense, Black humor |
Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA, Canada, Mexico |
Duration | 01:36 |
Characters | Zombie, Maniacs, Teens, Monsters, Spiders |
Plot | Prison Break, Investigation, Friendship, Death, Supernatural |
Place | School, Psychiatric hospitals, Small cities |
Time | Halloween |
Style | By books, Tense, Depressive, For a group of friends, Disturbing |
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.