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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: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | Denmark, France |
Duration | 01:24 |
The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Germany |
Duration | 01:33 |
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...
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: 3.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:25 |
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:29 |
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
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: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | USA, France, Canada, Spain |
Duration | 01:38 |
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Mark | imdb: 4.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | Canada, USA |
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, crime, detective |
Country | Philippines |
Duration | 01:50 |
A 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:56 |
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.
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: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
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: 6.7 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
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: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – and they soon see the true nature of its horror.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:59 |
In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of death Ceil strikes a deal with a demon, his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ceil is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA |
Duration | 01:23 |
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy |
Country | USA |
Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".
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: 6.8 |
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.