Best movies like The Candy Witch
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Plot Summary:
Two ghost hunters are called upon a distressed family who claim they are being tormented by an evil spirit known in their local town as The Candy Witch. But as the mystery of her curse is uncovered, surprising and sinister turns are discovered around The Candy Witch's identity. Their hardest case yet, can they solve this evil curse before more people are killed by the demonic spirit?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, dark, intense, psychotronic
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Return of the Tooth Fairy (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Tooth Fairy is back. 15 years after the events of the first movie, Corey, now grown up but mentally scarred has gone to a class reunion. However, the Tooth Fairy is back, and this time - You better have flossed properly.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful
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Tooth Fairy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nana starts to tell the legend of the evil tooth fairy who rips out teeth. Carla is sick of her crazy alcoholic stories and tries to leave, however a power outage suggests something is amiss, something much more sinister than Carla could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspenseful, scary, dark, sinister
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Damned by Dawn (2009)
Plot Summary:
During a violent thunderstorm, a family is awoken by piercing shrieks which summon the dead to rise again. Their lives explode in a blood soaked fury as they battle malevolent spirits, whilst fighting to save their souls from eternal torment with... the Banshee.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic horror, enigmatic, serious, psychotronic, awful
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Poltergeist Activity (2015)
Plot Summary:
A father and daughter encounter unexplainable occurrences and frightening visions in their new home.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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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 Tombs (2019)
Plot Summary:
A live streamed, publicity stunt, filmed inside London's most famous scare attraction takes a terrifying turn as the event awakes an evil spirit. Something relentless and seemingly unstoppable starts stalking the celebrity guests through the claustrophobic halls of this maze of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, slasher horror, terrifying
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Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (2019)
Plot Summary:
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, mystical, tense
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The Heiress (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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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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Watch If You Dare (2018)
Plot Summary:
What many are saying is the most disturbing film of 2018, Watch if you Dare revolves around a series of horrifying incidents. If you press play, look away ;).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense
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Stickman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of isolation she finally has her demons under control and is released.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, melancholic, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, intense, dark fantasy, weird
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Not Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin on the East Coast. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last House on Cemetery Lane (2015)
Plot Summary:
Screenwriter John Davies has grown tired of living in London and moves to an old manor house in a sleepy West Wales village to get out of the rat race. At first he enjoys himself, embracing the quieter pace of life and starting a relationship with his beautiful neighbour Cassie Konrad. But strange, unexplained occurrences begin to occur in the manor house. John discovers he is surrounded by a supernatural presence and begins to research the house's past, discovering secrets more terrible than he ever imagined. It is now up to John to right the injustices of the past and finally lay to rest the spirits which haunt the Last House on Cemetery Lane.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary
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Bad Nun: Deadly Vows (2019)
Plot Summary:
Catherine and her family recently moved into a converted church. Upon moving in, they have been harassed by an unknown religious stalker, claiming them to be sinners. Pamela, Catherine's grandmother soon begins to reveal she has secrets hidden to the local church, and not all is as it seems. Each night the Nun returns, and this time, she is looking to claim more than one soul.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Ouija Exorcism (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, a celebrated exorcist trapped a horrific demon inside a ouija board. Thinking the board to be a game, his son played without obeying the rules, and let the demon loose. In order to save his son, the exorcist sent him far away until the demon could be destroyed. Thirty years later, and after his death, his grandson finds the board and makes the same mistake his father did. Now the evil is back and roaming the earth to terrorize those responsible for its imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
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
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Exorcist Chronicles (2013)
Plot Summary:
Across the world, demonic possessions are on the increase. Two specialists are brought in and uncover a dark and terrifying worldwide plot.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing
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Terrified (2017)
Plot Summary:
Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky, psychological horror, psychological, atmospheric, dark, slasher
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An English Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s England, Blake Cunningham and his alcoholic mother are forced to move into the mysterious Clemonte Hall, a vast isolated manor house, to care for his dying Grandfather who resides in the attic room. Soon, ghostly goings-on fill the house with dread, as it becomes apparent Grandfather's illness may have a supernatural cause that can only be cured by uncovering the terrifying secrets of the house and its dark history.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful
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A Nun's Curse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, intense, weird
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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
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Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Beyond Remedy (2009)
Plot Summary:
An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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Cupid (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being embarrassed by the mean girls at school, Faye, a practicing witch, summons the evil Cupid to take revenge on all those who wronged her. On Valentine’s Day, Cupid does in fact rise and will stop at nothing until the walls are covered in blood. The students must figure out a way to stop Cupid and undo the spell before their hearts get broken… literally.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, mystical, tense, disturbing, semi serious, psychological, slasher horror, twisted, absurd
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Abigail Haunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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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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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 Legend of Hell House (1973)
Plot Summary:
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, christmas horror, tense, atmospheric, gothic horror
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
Plot Summary:
An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, terrifying
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Mother Krampus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, mystical, suspense, dark, mysterious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy