Best movies like The Woods
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Plot Summary:
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 estranged parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark, psychological, gothic, suspense, creepy, slasher
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Similar in 84%
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Plot Summary:
No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis headlines and Lynn-Holly Johnson co-stars in this suspenseful take on haunted houses.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, intense, psychological, serious, gothic, creepy
Similar in 78%
Down a Dark Hall (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only other four female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, fairy tale, gothic, dark, demonic
Similar in 89%
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
Plot Summary:
It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense, atmospheric, serious, demonic, creepy, teen
Similar in 90%
The Wretched (2019)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teenage boy embarks on a gutsy crusade to stop the terrifying evil he suspects has possessed his neighbor in this bone-chilling occult thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, twist ending, suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, scary, slasher, demonic
Similar in 76%
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)
Plot Summary:
Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, entertaining, christmas horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, demonic, psychotronic, mockumentary
Similar in 77%
Dead & Buried (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense, surreal, cult classic, frightening, suspenseful, scary
Similar in 84%
An American Haunting (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, creepy, period piece, atmospheric, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977)
Plot Summary:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, satanic, suspense, surreal, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark, cerebral
Similar in 83%
The Changeling (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, disturbing, cerebral, cult classic
Similar in 79%
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, stylized, serious, suspenseful, demonic
Similar in 77%
One Missed Call (2003)
Plot Summary:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark fantasy, creepy, frightening, slasher
Similar in 75%
One Missed Call (2008)
Plot Summary:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, psychological, mind bending, dark, mind blowing, terrifying
Similar in 88%
The House of the Devil (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, satanic, disturbing, creepy, grindhouse, cult classic
Similar in 85%
The Omen (1976)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, psychological, scary, satanic, creepy, atmospheric, dark, suspense, slasher
Similar in 82%
The Gallows (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, dark, intense, suspenseful, spooky, surprise ending, psychological, mockumentary
Similar in 76%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Plot Summary:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, teen, intense, tense, splatter
Similar in 88%
Scream (1996)
Plot Summary:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 381000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, bloody, parody, teen, spooky, cult classic
Similar in 88%
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the dead of winter, Kat and Rose, two very different girls, find themselves spending winter break at their prestigious prep school. What they don't know is that Kat is being stalked by an evil entity, and their lives are about to change forever. Meanwhile, Joan, a young, troubled woman, makes her way across a frozen landscape towards the school. But why?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, demonic, enigmatic, psychological horror, creepy, bleak, psychological thriller, gothic, dark
Similar in 85%
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, demonic, splatter
Similar in 83%
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Plot Summary:
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, dark, independent film, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Grave Encounters (2011)
Plot Summary:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, frightening, suspense, demonic, intense, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense
Similar in 76%
Silent Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living 'darkness' that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, creepy, disturbing, gothic horror, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Babadook (2014)
Plot Summary:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 243000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, dark, suspense, suspenseful, psychological horror, spooky, dark fantasy, creepy
Similar in 90%
The Ring (2002)
Plot Summary:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy, dark, frightening, twist ending, psychological, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Plot Summary:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspense, atmospheric, scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Plot Summary:
A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad move! Opening a Pandora's Box of unspeakable evil, the pair must flee for their lives -- with a monstrous "shape" in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, atmospheric, bloody, road movie, suspense, creepy
Similar in 87%
Blair Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark, suspense, tense, stylized, intense, demonic, spooky, slasher
Similar in 75%
Mirrors (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, demonic, intense, psychological, creepy, suspense, twist ending
Similar in 80%
Dead Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, dark, slasher, suspense, frightening
Similar in 78%
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Plot Summary:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 379000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, fairy tale, suspenseful, surreal, captivating