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Key Features:
Occult, Ritual, Supernatural horror, Isolation, Psychological thriller, Ritual, Determination, Risk, Paranormal, Gothic horror
Tone:
serious, suspense-driven
Target Audience:
Horror fans, Occult enthusiasts, Psychological thriller viewers, Independent film lovers
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Dread

A Dark Song

2016-07-08
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A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Genres
Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
Cast
Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Huberman, Susan Loughnane, Nathan Vos, Martina Nunvarova, Breffni O, Sheila Moloney
Crew
Liam Gavin, Liam Gavin
Rating
6.3(512 votes)
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Down a Dark Hall
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Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.



Black Candles
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5.697

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Silent Hill
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Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.



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A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.



A Sacrifice
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American social psychologist Ben Monroe investigates a local cult connected to a disturbing event. While he immerses himself into his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy, gets involved with a mysterious local boy, who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As these two worlds head towards an intersection, Mazzy finds herself in great danger and Ben will need to race against the clock to save her.



Dark Touch
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Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.



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When indie singer Grey struggles to write her sophomore album, she teams up with a mysterious producer at his secluded cabin. Though their bond strengthens her music, it also starts to irreparably alter Grey’s body and mind.



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A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.



Rites of Spring
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A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.



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6.009

When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.



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A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.



Resurrection
6

A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.



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Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.



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4.8

A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.



Dark Corners
4.983

A troubled young woman wakes up one day as a different person - someone who is stalked by creatures.



The Mimic
The Mimic(2017)
6.4

The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.



Lady Macbeth
6.563

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.



Nightwish
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4.707

A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.



Dark World
4.4

On a college trip to remote Northern forests, one of the students - Marina - encounters a burial site of an ancient witch, and is possessed by the spirits of the past. Now Marina and her companions must take part in the millennia old fight between good and evil, involving lake witches, sorcerers, and ancient forces from the myths.



The Dark
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6.083

A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.



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6.2

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Martyrs Lane
6.1

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One Dark Night
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The House of the Devil

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Bloody Moon
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Byzantium
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The Red Book Ritual
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Saint Catherine
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Nimic
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6.6

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The Invitation
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The Night House
6.587

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.



The Canal
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5.75

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The Wasteland
5.2

Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious, violent creature that starts stalking their small house will put the relationship that unites them to the test.



The City of the Dead
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Lavender
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Coming Soon
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The Chalk Line
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Matriarch
Matriarch(2018)
5.2

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To the Devil a Daughter

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Hex
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A couple's holiday romance is thrown into chaos as they are afflicted by a malicious force.



Dark Floors
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A Dark Place
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Dark Crimes
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Night of the Dark Full Moon

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Dark Waters
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Mercy Black
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Mockingbird
4.675

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Older Gods
6.22

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The Beast Within
5.717

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Lights Out
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5.371

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6.9

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Dark House
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The Toll
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5.5

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7.199

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4.096

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5.698

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Vampire
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6

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The Dark Tapes
5.3

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Black Island
5.894

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The Heretics
4.9

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Death Whisperer
7.5

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