Best movies like The Widow
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Plot Summary:
Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, tense, dark, suspenseful, weird
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The Devil Within (2016)
Plot Summary:
In November 2012 Rachel Kusza and her team of film makers travelled to Transylvania to document the Baciu forest. A forest with a dark history of strange occurrences, ghost sightings and countless cases of missing people. The film crew were never heard from again. After searching for the film crew for two years Howard Redman, Rachels teacher, found the crews camera buried in the snow.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Across the River (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a wildlife biologist (Marco Marchese) becomes trapped on the wrong side of the river while collecting data, he comes across an abandoned village. Taking shelter, he begins to suspect he may be sharing the grounds with more than just boar and deer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, powerful, dread, weird
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Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group visits Saipan to search for locations for their company's newest resort. As they find what they think is the perfect spot, they discover a hidden bunker on the property which they decide to explore. However, they soon find out that curiosity can kill. As each member faces their most private secrets and the secrets of the bunker itself, the results lead to a most shocking conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, dark, suspenseful, bad ending, slasher, demonic, dread, biblical
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Evil Spirit (2016)
Plot Summary:
Life circumstances, curiosity, corruption, ignorance. Four sinister stories based on folk legends. A bunch of friends gathers around an Ouija board. Two hunters wake up in a hut in the middle of woods. A young guy arrives at a rural community on a business trip. A stranger in a stolen car is trying to leave the area. None of them has an idea that during the mysterious Tankha season THEY come to our world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, road movie
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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The Ghost from Hovrino (2012)
Plot Summary:
November 11, 2011 -- four men with a video camera went to Hovrino's forest to make a movie about a ghost. Kirill Alex -- 1981 year of birth. Roman Mirniy -- 1981 year of birth. Anton Vaganov -- 1981 year of birth. Artem Varanov -- 1990 year of birth. They left Moscow around 8 a.m. and supposedly will arrive at Hovrino's forest around noon. Six miles from Hovrino's forest on Ryazan's highway, Anton Vaganov's jeep was found. Inside his jeep Kirill Alex's video camera was found. There was a tape inside this camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychotronic, independent film, mockumentary, mystic
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Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological
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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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The Ice Demon (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ksyusha barely remembers her father: he went missing when she was a child. Incredibly, he is showing signs of life, despite being in a coma. The man is returned home in this condition. His wife has now remarried. The family is thrown into disarray by the return of the former master of the house – terrifying things are happening in the house, and Ksyusha’s mom starts acting weird… Ksyusha begins to suspect that something supernatural, icy, and lifeless has come home with her father. And now Ksyusha and her stepfather are about to find themselves protecting their family from a demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Munger Road (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, slasher, tense, suspense, independent film, serious
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Witches in the Woods (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they have become stranded in Stoughton Valley, home of some Witch Trials even more horrendous than Salem, and are being hunted by a supernatural creature determined to keep them there.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, dark, slasher, splatter, scary
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Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, suspense, spooky, independent film, dark, supernatural thriller
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Occult (2009)
Plot Summary:
Koji Shiraishi is interested in strange indiscriminate murder at a sightseeing resort. He goes behind the camera to investigate the circumstances surrounding strange occurrences and interview the survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspense, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, slasher, surreal, tension, creepy
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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
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The Devil Below (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, weird
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Atrocious (2010)
Plot Summary:
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, psychological, splatter, creepy, spooky, surprise ending
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Paranormal Entity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were called to the scene by Thomas Finley himself. He was found inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms.After questioning, Thomas was taken into custody. In his police statement, Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later, he committed suicide.It is the opinion of those closely related to the family, that this video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mockumentary, dark, mockbuster, retro, suspense, independent film
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100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in this fear-filled found-footage foray featuring a bright young cast.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark, scary, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, fake documentary
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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 77%
Evil Things (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by breathtaking mountains and miles and miles of woods. Miriam invites her young college friends Cassy, Mark, Tanya and Leo to join her at the country house for what looks to be the most amazing weekend ever. Of course they all jump at the chance to spend a free weekend in the country, in the middle of nowhere. Miriam's friends are totally in the mood for a big time party weekend. They're also anxious to escape the dark and gloomy concrete jungle known as Manhattan. Miriam, Cassy and Tanya bring the food. Mark brings the beer and Leo, the aspiring filmmaker, brings his new video camera. Leo hopes to produce a short movie by documenting every amazing moment of this weekend getaway.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, mockumentary, suspense, dark, realistic, independent film
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Slender Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bad ending, suspense, psychological, psychotronic, dark, slasher, demonic, spooky, thrilling
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The Tunnel (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, rough, suspenseful, spooky, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, slasher, psychological
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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
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The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, creepy, dark, intense
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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
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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
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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
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8213: Gacy House (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, dark, tense, exciting, psychological, slasher
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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