Best movies like The Blair Witch Project
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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Blair Witch Project (1999):
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#Screamers (2016)
Plot Summary:
When an internet company decides to investigate a series of 'Screamer' videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, mockumentary
Similar in 79%
KKN di Desa Penari (2022)
Plot Summary:
Six students were terrorized by a mysterious dancer while running a community service program in a remote village. Apparently, one of them violates the most fatal rule in the village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: dark, mysterious, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 84%
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Plot Summary:
An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, a place selected as one of the '7 freakiest places on the planet'. They are to explore the haunted asylum and stream it live on their online show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, captivating, mystical, mockumentary, slasher, suspense, dark fantasy
Similar in 81%
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 84%
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
Similar in 89%
Willow Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, cult classic, spooky, tense
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, scary, slasher, suspenseful, psychological, stylized, demonic, splatter, creepy
Similar in 79%
Noroi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, serious, demonic, spooky, atmospheric, slasher, twisted, mockumentary
Similar in 79%
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
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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, creepy, psychological, disturbing, stylized, serious
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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
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The Ritual (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, spooky, disturbing, scary, tense, enigmatic, slasher, lovecraft, atmospheric
Similar in 77%
Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, dark, demonic, bleak, slasher, spooky
Similar in 80%
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, slasher, spooky, rough
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Evidence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, mockumentary, slasher, spooky, crying, independent film, weird
Similar in 79%
Nightbooks (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy, splatter, minimal cast, horror comedy
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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 78%
V/H/S (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, creepy
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 82%
Last Shift (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the armoury. But unbeknownst to her, cult leader John Michael Paymon has haunted the department ever since he committed suicide in custody. Jessica is about to find out just how dangerous he still is, all alone on the graveyard shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, slasher, splatter, intense, detective, demonic
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The Witch (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 291000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, scary, gothic, psychological, suspense, satanic, enigmatic
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Devil's Pass (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual, creepy, mockumentary, harsh, natural horror, psychological
Similar in 90%
REC (2007)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, disturbing, creepy, frightening, psychological, atmospheric
Similar in 75%
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 88%
Afflicted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, dark, intense, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, bloody, mockumentary
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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 83%
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
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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
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It Follows (2014)
Plot Summary:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, psychological horror, independent film, creepy
Similar in 81%
As Above, So Below (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, philosophical, atmospheric, creepy, serious