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Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:32 |
The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
When a fissure explosively opens in an English mud flat during a military exercise there, injuring one soldier and killing another, an American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective |
Country | Spain, USA |
Duration | 01:22 |
An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | Austria |
Duration | 01:38 |
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
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: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | USA, South Africa, United Kingdom |
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | Taiwan |
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action |
Country | United Kingdom |
When an undersea volcano sends tremors throughout the Atlantic, aquatic creatures come out of hiding. Merchant seamen Joe Ryan and partner Sam Slade harness the most unusual of the lot, a massive beast that looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The enterprising sailors deliver their quarry to a British circus, but it turns out that the animal is a newborn. And, when his much larger mother arrives in London to rescue her son, the city feels her wrath.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | Australia |
It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia |
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, drama, detective, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:12 |
Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained friendship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 02:31 |
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:48 |
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, drama, detective |
Country | Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, France |
A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
Mark | imdb: 3.7 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and their friend Leo go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods, so named because of its legendary haunted past. That night jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a trip to terror. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there is a much darker force at work in the ancient eerie surroundings. Who or what is after them? And can any one of them survive a night in the woods?
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:58 |
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure |
Country | USA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:41 |
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | France |
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:43 |
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
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: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Mark | imdb: 3.6 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.