Best movies like Penny Dreadful
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Plot Summary:
Jessica and David Clausen are an upstart couple who come face to face with the Supernatural after inheriting a beautiful townhouse in New York City's West Village District.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, neo noir, suspense
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19 Doors (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a producer suggests that screenwriter Grace Mitchel pen a horror story set in an old hotel, the lond-abandoned Lyndora seems theperfect inspiration. The turn-of-the-century hotel is known for its rough and seedy past - the doors to its rooms sealed 50 years ago following a series of gruesome murders - and local lore says it's haunted. Despite the reservations of family and friends, an undaunted Grace takes up residence in the eerie inn to immerse herself in writing ... But now that the doors are open, the secrets of the past begin to emerge. As disturbing, but seemingly explicable, events begin to escalate, Grace struggles to define reality from insanity and begins a descent into darkness from which some will never return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, scary, suspense
Similar in 77%
Nightworld (2017)
Plot Summary:
When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, Bulgaria, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Soon after delving into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, exciting, tense, disturbing
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House of Bad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family house, its painful memories quickly become too real to fight off. Three sisters with a history, a suitcase full of stolen drugs, and a family house with a dark secret is the recipe for terror in House of Bad.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological, realistic
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The Dead Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, spooky, independent film, cult film
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The Haunting of Hell House (1999)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christian film, suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful
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The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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House of Purgatory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their secrets and one by one uses them against the teens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, teen horror, slasher
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A Place in Hell (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a real serial killer: A disgraced detective on the trail of a serial killer and a group of student filmmakers cross paths at a Halloween fright farm in the dead of winter.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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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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The Remains (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a family moves into an old Victorian home, they discover a chest in the attic containing antiques tainted by a malevolent spirit. As the antiques slowly possess each family member, the spirit grows stronger, hellbent on kidnapping the children.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, spooky
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Restless Souls (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are the only living witnesses, but for how long?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
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Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. Sam Loomis once treated unstoppable killer Michael Myers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wraith (2022)
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Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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A Haunting in Salem (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, independent film, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Ouija House (2018)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the house part of its game….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, melancholic, intense, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Lizzie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the true horror of her past.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film
Similar in 89%
The Evil (1978)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious
Similar in 77%
Greystone Park (2012)
Plot Summary:
In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers quickly discovered that they were not alone.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 81%
Delirium (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense
Similar in 87%
Apartment 143 (2011)
Plot Summary:
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, mockumentary, suspense, demonic, psychological, psychological horror, spooky
Similar in 87%
Out of the Dark (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational, independent film, sinister
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Dark House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, psychological horror, creepy
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Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 90%
House of Fears (2007)
Plot Summary:
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak, psychological, psychotronic, dread
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The Houses October Built (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspense, mockumentary, rough, bleak, slasher, sexy, suspenseful, gothic horror
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Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, demonic, suspenseful, saga, splatter, esoteric, spooky, psychotronic, bleak
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, demonic, brutal, slasher
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Final Destination 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself – which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, bloody, slasher, suspenseful, splatter, intense, teen, brutal, teen horror
Similar in 78%
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Plot Summary:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, demonic, psychotronic, disturbing, spooky, serious