Best movies like An American Ghost Story
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Plot Summary:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like An American Ghost Story (2012):
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The Amityville Asylum (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ramblings of the patients, she is further unnerved by apparent supernatural occurrences on the night shift. To preserve her sanity Lisa must uncover the mysterious history of the institution and it's inmates. But the truth is far more terrifying than she could ever imagine.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychotronic
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Darker Than Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful
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The Portal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fun filled weekend turns deadly when a group of unsuspecting theatre goers are trapped inside, after a ravenous spirit is resurrected and released from a Ouija board. They must confront their most terrifying fears and destroy the spirit before it finds and kills them first.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious
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6 Degrees of Hell (2012)
Plot Summary:
Six individuals are caught up in a supernatural perfect storm as an evil lays claim to one of them while threatening to tear apart the soul of a small Pennsylvania town.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, humorous, psychotronic
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Apartment 1303 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, detective
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Before Someone Gets Hurt (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master prank or if the house is actually haunted. Unfortunately, they don't find the answer until it is far too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Grave Halloween (2013)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, suspense
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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7 Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Stitch (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to burn away emotional baggage. Unfortunately the amateur ritual goes awry, and cosmic forces are unleashed, revealing something sinister ravaging each person with a progression of gruesome, medieval surgical scars. As the stitches rip skin and tear apart relationships, a battle for survival ensues, forcing the couples to come to terms with loss, betrayal, love, and hope.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense
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Haunted - 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Realtor encounters two ghostly entities while attempting to sell a mansion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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Dead Inside (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends' impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable... or something entirely more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, touching, tense, suspense, slasher
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Fear House (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests Samantha's pledge, the remaining guests sink into horror. If they want to leave Fear House alive, this desperate group must act fast in writer-director Michael R. Morris's claustrophobic spook fest.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
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Blackwood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense
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The Skeptic (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, suspense, intellectual, grindhouse, psychological, mind bending
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Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has inhabited their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, spooky, independent film, serious, psychotronic, sexy
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Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Plot Summary:
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, lovecraft, atmospheric, scary, psychological, gothic, suspense, dark, esoteric, creepy
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Dead Souls (2012)
Plot Summary:
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, interesting
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Plot Summary:
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in apartment 1303. She finds a book telling the tragic story of the Yukiyo and her mother, the first tenants of the apartment and uncovers the truth behind the suicides.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, detective
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An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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The Chosen (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, spooky, independent film
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The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emily Wolf is the host of a travel show documenting supposed haunted locations around the country. The destination of her next episode happens to be in rural Florida, where her and her cinematographer's old college friends live. Wanting to mix work and pleasure, they decide to have a reunion camping trip on the allegedly haunted land. But, there is no fun to be had when the group learns that the Sluagh are more than folklore.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Circles (2013)
Plot Summary:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of a strange woman has each of them wondering if they are suffering from hallucinations, or if their new home holds a dark, supernatural presence. As their fragile grasp on reality spirals into delirium, Alex and Penny find themselves nearly helpless to deal with the horrific truth of what is really going in this house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic
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The Pact II (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy, independent film
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Episode 50 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Amityville Haunting (2011)
Plot Summary:
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, mockbuster, mockumentary, psychotronic, independent film, fake documentary