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Plot Summary:
A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, gothic horror, grindhouse, pastoral, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspense
Best tv shows and movies like The Nesting (1981):
Similar in 81%
House of Shadows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Buried Alive (2007)
Plot Summary:
A college prank at an abandoned house accidentally awakens a frightening spirit.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, slasher, psychological, bloody, suspense, dark
Similar in 88%
Ghost Lake (2004)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, experimental, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan MacKinlay is a man trapped inside his home by his own mind. Suffering from agoraphobia, caused by a car accident that took his wife's life; his existence has been reduced to a monotonous repetition of identical days. As his dread and self-loathing escalate, an onslaught of gruesome visions and twisted, waking nightmares begins to gnaw away at his last shred of sanity. Are these ghastly visions imaginary, private demons...or is he being victimized by a very real entity of infinite terror and unspeakable evil?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Ruin Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, horror comedy
Similar in 79%
The Silent Scream (1979)
Plot Summary:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, suspense, creepy
Similar in 75%
The Slayer (1982)
Plot Summary:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying, independent film, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
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 80%
Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
Plot Summary:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, frightening, scary, suspenseful, independent film
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, fake documentary
Similar in 79%
Altar (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, demonic, esoteric, offbeat, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
Demonic (2015)
Plot Summary:
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, serious, suspenseful, detective, slasher, psychotronic, rough, psychological thriller, brutal
Similar in 86%
They Wait (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After Sam is hospitalized, Sarah consults with a pharmacist who's well-informed about Chinese mythology and who tells her that supernatural forces threaten her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, asian horror
Similar in 79%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting, humorous, suspense, independent film
Similar in 78%
100 Feet (2008)
Plot Summary:
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, rough, bloody, suspense, disturbing, demonic, splatter, independent film
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 87%
The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
Similar in 76%
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, slasher
Similar in 77%
Death Ship (1980)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, scary, suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, grindhouse, cult classic
Similar in 75%
Dark House (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, demonic, cult horror, awful
Similar in 76%
Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 77%
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Plot Summary:
According to local legend, the ghosts of tortured slaves still haunt New Orleans' Lalaurie House. For The St. Francisville Experiment, a paranormal researcher, a self-proclaimed psychic, a Louisiana historian, and a filmmaker were given digital video cameras for one night in the house to document whatever they saw. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mockumentary, dark, independent film, mind bending, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
The Grudge 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his Chicago home, finding another family on the brink of succumbing to the curse. It becomes clear that Jake's terrifying stories are true, and a mysterious Japanese woman may be the only hope of banishing the spirits forever...unless her plan destroys them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surreal, stylized, psychological, serious, creepy
Similar in 77%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Plot Summary:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, demonic, splatter, stylized, rough, psychological, slasher
Similar in 86%
Ghost Ship (2002)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, creepy, demonic, splatter, psychological
Similar in 81%
Sinister (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, twist ending, rough, dark, creepy, sinister
Similar in 78%
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious, atmospheric, gothic, creepy, psychological, disturbing
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The Grudge (2004)
Plot Summary:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim - Karen must find away to break the spell before she becomes the spirit's next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric, suspense, gothic, terrifying, slasher, stylized