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Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Canada |
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:11 |
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:20 |
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, Japan, Thailand |
Duration | 01:30 |
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | Argentina, New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantasy |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:31 |
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, Norway, Canada |
Duration | 01:28 |
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:50 |
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:32 |
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:22 |
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: 3.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:34 |
A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, India, Canada |
A young woman quits her teaching job to be a private tutor (governess) for a wealthy young heiress who witnessed her parent's tragic death. Shortly after arriving, the girl's degenerate brother is sent home from his boarding school. The tutor has some strange, unexplainable experiences in the house and begins to suspect there is more to their story.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
My name is Rebecca. When I left for college my ex John thought web cams would help us keep in touch. It does however it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an on-line psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of terror.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | horror, fantasy |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:43 |
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:12 |
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:41 |
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: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA, Canada, Mexico |
Duration | 01:36 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:46 |
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: 3.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | USA, China |
Duration | 02:22 |
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: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden |
Duration | 01:34 |
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:18 |
Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.
Mark | imdb: 4 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | USA, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:27 |
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.