Movies like Carnival of Souls

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Carnival of Souls (1962)
 7.0
 28K
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, gothic, surreal, independent film, black and white, dark, psychological, tense, creepy ...
Plot: carnival, ghost, female protagonist, supernatural, zombie, afterlife, amusement park, car accident, surrealism, spirit, macabre, visceral, demon, gory, brutality, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, blonde, church, coffee, hallucination, boarding house, corpse, nervous breakdown, organist ...
Time: year 1962
Place: salt lake city utah, utah, usa
Keyword: dreams

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Most similar movies to Carnival of Souls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, psychological and atmospheric films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, supernatural horror, occult, blood and fear mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Carnival of Souls: Jacob's Ladder (1990), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), The Others (2001), Session 9 (2001), The House of the Devil (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style: surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, slasher, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot: vampire, zombie, lake, ghost, hearing voices, boat, farmhouse, hearse, cemetery, mental illness, haunted, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 391K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mansion, supernatural horror, mysterious character, haunting, spiritualism, macabre ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 2000, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 63K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, psychology, mental illness, twists and turns, lobotomy, macabre, ghost, insanity, transformation, hospital, obsession ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The House of the Devil (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, satanic ...
Plot: supernatural, ritual, satanic cult, witchcraft, macabre, female protagonist, devil, lunar eclipse, satanic ritual, gory, blood, babysitter ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, witchcraft, tourist, murder, haunted by the past, destiny, woman in danger, countryside, surrealism, vacation, witch, house ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 243K
Silent Hill (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, dark, surreal, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, demon, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, insanity, torture, ghost town, ghost, good versus evil, missing child ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.8
 267K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 9K
Gothic (1986)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot: insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, mind game, brutality, obsession, goth, drug, writers, hallucination ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
 37K
The Innkeepers (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, macabre, hotel, paranormal, ghost story, fear, paranormal activity, haunted, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.8
 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.6
 65K
Dark Water (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, creepy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, imaginary friend, haunted, divorce, mother daughter relationship, spirit, supernatural, fear, danger, starting over, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, 70s, year 1974, 2000s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.2
 77K
Ring (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Woman in Black (1989)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, afterlife, haunted house, mysterious character, uncover truth, murder, haunted by the past, who done it, danger, haunted, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 6.6
 25K
The Beyond (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, gory, blindness, violence, murder, macabre, zombie attack, surrealism, afterlife, monster, revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, italy, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, danger, demon, ghost, haunted house, found footage, curses spells and rituals, murder, demonic possession, twists and turns, religions or cults, investigation ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
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41%
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 6.2
 72K
Stigmata (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, satanic, biblical, psychological ...
Plot: religion, miraculous event, priest, supernatural, demon, vatican, investigation, conspiracy, mission from god, destiny, danger, occult ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, new york, brazil, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
One Missed Call (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, creepy, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, hospital, investigation, uncover truth, cowardice, friendship, delusion, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, spirit ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
 12K
The Sentinel (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, model, haunted house, devil, occult, secret society, investigation, murder, hell, demon, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.5
 130K
The Omen (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, satanic, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: devil, evil child, prophecy, satan, supernatural, macabre, priest, murder, demon, demonic possession, gory, religion ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: london, persia, britain, rome italy, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Carnival of Souls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alex Grant is a troubled young woman, 20 years ago, she witnessed her mother get murdered by a carnival clown. She has nightmares of the clown - Louis Seagram. First a kind man then turned bad and also tried to rape Alex's mother. Alex fears ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, psychological, tense, scary ...
Plot: evil clown, female protagonist, carnival, nightmare, murder, childhood trauma, vengeance, sister sister relationship, psychopath, killer clown, witnessing a crime, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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