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Plot Summary:
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, creepy, tense, disturbing, light, fairy tale
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From the Dark (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a young couple on a road trip through the Irish countryside who encounter an ancient force of evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, weird
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 81%
Warhouse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, mind twisting, suspense, mind bending, psychological horror, scary
Similar in 83%
Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, grindhouse, spooky, serious, lovecraft
Similar in 78%
Mystics in Bali (1981)
Plot Summary:
Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan; a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck. It is now up to the local holy men who are then enforced to do battle with the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy
Similar in 88%
The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, folk tale, grindhouse, creepy
Similar in 87%
Splintered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sophie is a troubled young girl, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and harbouring a deep fascination with the unexplained. In the hope of satiating her obsession with the latter, she instigates a trip to the Welsh countryside with four friends, aimed at tracking down the legendary Beast of Bodmin. It seems the mythical creature – often thought to be a large wildcat or fox – has caught the public's attention once more thanks to a spate of attacks on livestock and one local farmer. Armed with a video camera and a case of beer, the group head off into the woods but they soon uncover much more than they bargained for, with Sophie falling foul of a mysterious madman who locks her away in an apparent attempt to protect her from some unnamed terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, grindhouse, serious, teen horror
Similar in 87%
Seventh Moon (2008)
Plot Summary:
Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark, suspense, slasher, underground film, hilarious, independent film
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She Creature (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mythical, tense, fairy tale, mystical, gothic, suspense
Similar in 76%
Intruders (2011)
Plot Summary:
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, psychological thriller, psychological horror, spooky, fairy tale, suspense
Similar in 82%
Wake Wood (2009)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, captivating, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, suspense, surreal, apocalyptic, grindhouse
Similar in 88%
Under the Shadow (2016)
Plot Summary:
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan, Qatar, Iran
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, intense, stylized, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, creepy, post-horror, spooky
Similar in 85%
Candyman (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, rough, creepy, frightening, suspense, bloody
Similar in 82%
The Eye (2002)
Plot Summary:
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a journey to find the origins of her cornea and to reveal the history of the previous dead owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, frightening, suspenseful, splatter, intense
Similar in 79%
Darkness Falls (2003)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, slasher, light, folk tale, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
Similar in 76%
The Gate (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, satanic, suspense, splatter, teen, lovecraft, classic horror, spooky, independent film
Similar in 82%
Entity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, grindhouse, spooky
Similar in 83%
Isolation (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, rough, serious, natural horror, weird
Similar in 78%
Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
Similar in 76%
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 82%
Dead Birds (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of Confederate soldiers who hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, creepy, frightening, mind twisting, slasher, mind bending
Similar in 90%
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, scary, intense, bloody, grindhouse, brutal, slasher
Similar in 75%
Exists (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, grindhouse, teen horror, mythical, powerful, natural horror
Similar in 83%
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, dark fantasy, intense, creepy, stylized, demonic
Similar in 90%
Thale (2012)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a huldra? A seductive forest spirit who appears from the front to be a beautiful young woman, but who also has a cow's tale and whose back appears to be like a hollowed out tree. The huldra has been known to offer rewards to those who satisfy them sexually, while death to those who fail to do so and are also prone to stealing human babies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric, suspense, scenic, disturbing, dark fantasy, grindhouse
Similar in 83%
Bad Moon (1996)
Plot Summary:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, retro, psychological horror, creepy, classic horror, serious
Similar in 84%
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, serious, dark, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
Similar in 83%
The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter
Similar in 87%
Krampus (2015)
Plot Summary:
A horror comedy based on the ancient legend about a pagan creature who punishes children on Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, dark, dark comedy, creepy, horror comedy, atmospheric