Horror/thrillers to look into
by Pandoraa | created - 02 May 2023 | updated - 02 May 2023 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Pickman's Muse (2010)
77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Director: Robert Cappelletto | Stars: Barret Walz, Maurice McNicholas, Tom Lodewyck, Joyce Porter
Votes: 357
2. Baghead (2008)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Four "actors" go to a cabin in the woods for the weekend to write a movie script. They talk about a relationship movie or a paper bag over the head movie. It starts with an anonymous baghead and slowly escalates.
Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | Stars: Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller
Votes: 5,571 | Gross: $0.14M
3. Fissure (2008)
PG-13 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Still reeling from a personal tragedy, Detective Paul Grunning is sent on a routine call to a local professor's home. When things turn deadly, he must navigate a fractured reality to solve the mystery before it's too late.
Director: Russ Pond | Stars: James MacDonald, Scarlett McAlister, Jim Blumetti, Crystal Mantecon
Votes: 139
4. In a Dark Place (2006)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
An art teacher is hired as nanny for 2 orphans, a boy and girl, at a huge, isolated country estate. The nanny starts seeing dead, former employees. Is she mad or is the estate haunted?
Director: Donato Rotunno | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Tara Fitzgerald, Christian Olson, Gabrielle Adam
Votes: 2,749
5. November (I) (2004)
R | 73 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.
Director: Greg Harrison | Stars: Courteney Cox, James Le Gros, Michael Ealy, Dori Mizrahi
Votes: 3,164 | Gross: $0.19M
6. Passion of Mind (2000)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Hadrian Dagannaud-Brouard, Chaya Cuénot
Votes: 3,584 | Gross: $0.77M
7. Don't Look Back (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story to that of her perception.
Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano, Thierry Neuvic
Votes: 7,441
8. Ghosts of Hamilton Street (2003)
Not Rated | 106 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace - and it seems he's the only one who realizes it. Each disappearance ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Scott Graham, Zak Jeffries, Kristin Carter, Kerry Brady
Votes: 145
9. Locked In (I) (2010)
R | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?
Director: Suri Krishnamma | Stars: Ben Barnes, Sarah Roemer, Eliza Dushku, Johnny Whitworth
Votes: 842
10. The Invited (2010)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided there for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.
Director: Ryan McKinney | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Megan Ward, Ellen Albertini Dow, Pam Grier
Votes: 345
11. Dream Lover (1993)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.
Director: Nicholas Kazan | Stars: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Fredric Lehne, Bess Armstrong
Votes: 6,082 | Gross: $0.26M
12. Godsend (2004)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned, under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen several years after his rebirth.
Directors: Frank M. Calo, Nick Hamm | Stars: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright
Votes: 26,466 | Gross: $14.38M
13. Lost Souls (2000)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Catholic teacher meets an atheist journalist, whom a group of Catholics and Priests believes has been chosen by the devil to be the Antichrist.
Director: Janusz Kaminski | Stars: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 11,373 | Gross: $16.78M
14. Mr. Stitch (1995 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Sci-Fi
Doctor Rue Wakeman (Rutger Hauer) and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature, Lazarus (Wil Wheaton), reads a lot of books and learns ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Avary | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Wil Wheaton, Stevo Polyi, Rowland Wafford
Votes: 902
15. Asylum (2005)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty of the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Natasha Richardson, Sean Harris, Marton Csokas, Ian McKellen
Votes: 5,447 | Gross: $0.37M
16. Second Sight (2013 TV Movie)
Drama
Centers on Tanner, a lead detective with the New Orleans Police Department who has an ocular disorder that causes him to have horrifying and visually stimulating anxiety dreams and hallucinations.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Madeline Zima, Jason Lee, Kim Dickens, Christina Cole
Votes: 28
17. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
R | 100 min | Crime, Thriller
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
Director: J Blakeson | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston
Votes: 27,601 | Gross: $0.17M
18. The Moth Diaries (2011)
R | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon, Lily Cole, Anne Day-Jones
Votes: 6,928 | Gross: $0.00M
19. Under Suspicion (1991)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony's ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.
Director: Simon Moore | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 5,070 | Gross: $0.22M
20. Exorcismus (2010)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror
A family allows their young daughter's exorcism to be recorded secretly.
Director: Manuel Carballo | Stars: Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Billington, Richard Felix, Jo-Anne Stockham
Votes: 3,788
21. Horsehead (2014)
Not Rated | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
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... See full summary »
Director: Romain Basset | Stars: Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Murray Head, Gala Besson
Votes: 1,965
22. From Within (2008)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small Maryland town is gripped by a curse which causes residents to take their own life one after another.
Director: Phedon Papamichael | Stars: Elizabeth Rice, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Blatz, Laura Allen
Votes: 7,984 | Gross: $0.07M
23. Lace Crater (2015)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A woman encounters a strange presence in a guest house.
Director: Harrison Atkins | Stars: Lindsay Burdge, Peter Vack, Jennifer Kim, Keith Poulson
Votes: 443
24. The Woods (2006)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery
Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her disinterested parents.
Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Lauren Birkell, Agnes Bruckner, Jane Gilchrist, Emma Campbell
Votes: 12,384
25. The Ward (2010)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh
Votes: 44,886
26. YellowBrickRoad (2010)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the wilderness attempts to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar.
Directors: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton | Stars: Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper, Cassidy Freeman
Votes: 6,958
27. The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young man returns to his recently deceased mother's charming gothic revival home, only to discover a sinister presence lying within that may be linked to a peculiar cult run by two strange brothers.
Director: Rodrigo Gudiño | Stars: Aaron Poole, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings, Stephen Eric McIntyre
Votes: 4,642
28. Mercy (I) (2014)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
Director: Peter Cornwell | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Shirley Knight, Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney
Votes: 5,826
29. Silent Retreat (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who run it are brainwashing women, and if she breaks the rules, she'll discover what lurks beyond the trees.
Director: Tricia Lee | Stars: Chelsea Jenish, Sofia Banzhaf, Robert Nolan, Jen Pogue
Votes: 900
30. The Reeds (2010)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Director: Nick Cohen | Stars: Anna Brewster, Geoff Bell, Daniel Caltagirone, Emma Catherwood
Votes: 2,794
31. The Terror (2018–2025)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.
Stars: Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane
Votes: 51,401
32. Wish Upon (2017)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them.
Director: John R. Leonetti | Stars: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert
Votes: 22,895 | Gross: $14.30M
33. Rememory (2017)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Gordon invents the Rememory machine that allows him to see memories as they actually were. He dies in his office. Is it murder? Sam investigates by using the machine "borrowed" from Gordon's wife. He looks at memories of others involvement .
Director: Mark Palansky | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Matt Ellis, Jordana Largy, Martin Donovan
Votes: 17,786
34. The Isle (2018)
96 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
When their boat sinks, 3 men make it to an Isle they'll wish they had never found.
Director: Matthew Butler-Hart | Stars: Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Fisayo Akinade, Tori Butler-Hart
Votes: 11,489
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