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Pray (2005)
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Original name: 絶対恐怖 Pray プレイ
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Our story begins with two losers, Mitsuru and Maki, driving down the road with a drugged and kidnapped little girl in the back of their car. They owe lots of yen for drugs and a kidnapping scheme seemed to only possible way to get the money. The problem is, that when they call to make ransom demands, the people state that their daughter died a year ago, so who the hell do they have in their custody? The kidnappers are holed up in an old school, turns out it was the school that Mitsuru used to go to and it's now abandoned. Or, SEEMINGLY abandoned.
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, asian horror
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, confined, obsession, gory, life is a bitch, intrigue, teenage life, vengeance, rivalry, danger, unstoppable, abduction, graphic violence, hostage situation, extreme, kidnapping, heroes, supernatural ability, down on your luck, blind ambition, tough heroes, violent content, deadly, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Pray
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, ghost, gory, rivalry and vengeance mostly in Horror, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Pray: Scarred (2005), Haunted Forest (2007), Ghost Train (2006), Aunt Rose (2005), Tomie: Revenge (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago, after his wife gave birth to another man's baby, an alcoholic husband sought revenge by slicing off the child's face and throwing her tiny body in the swamp. Today, the locals say that the little girl never really died -- ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, frame up, teenage life, gory, ghost, rivalry, small town, survival ...
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95%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
curse, ghost, evil spirit, supernatural, vengeance, gory, curses spells and rituals, missing person, escapades, danger, legends and myths, haunted by the past ...
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83%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, missing person, supernatural, friendship, danger, gory, violence, subway, train wreck, supernatural ability, female ghost, tunnel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
83%
373
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, danger, hostage, criminal heroes, supernatural ability, gory, teenager, motel, supernatural power, home invasion, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mountain, vengeance, danger, unrequited love, doctor, forest, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, rivalry, violence, bad kids ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
5 beautiful girls win a contest to star in a new reality show. Spend a night in a haunted house, and the first one to make contact with a ghost will win. But the house is really haunted by a killer who intends that none of them will win.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, survival, danger, ghost, woman in danger, rivalry, stalking, confined, haunted house, murder, violence, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, danger, vengeance, heroes, cons and scams, teenage life, woman in danger, computers and web, school, cursed, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the woods outside a small Texas town, a group of friends searching for some Halloween fun discover that a local legend is not only real, but deadly.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary
Plot:
supernatural, halloween, buddies, teenage life, danger, legends and myths, small town, gory, urban legend, farm, witchcraft, witch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Style:
anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, mysterious character, obsession, gory, urban legend, danger, monster, folklore, legends and myths, elevator, youkai, asian school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, supernatural, homecoming, high school, rivalry, ghost, teachers and students, stalking, friends, teenager, danger, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
Style:
serious, scary, atmospheric, rough, offbeat
Plot:
viking, supernatural, zombie, deadly creature, rivalry, mummy, heroes, danger, escapades, mutant, gory, student life ...
Time:
middle ages
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
13-year-old Jimmy Morgan is possessed by an evil too powerful to be exorcised by any religion. After escaping from a mental institution, Jimmy is back with a vengeance - and an army of children who follow his every murderous desire.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, slasher, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
evil, reincarnation, supernatural, family in danger, danger, mentally unstable, religions or cults, clergy, ghost, hell, possession, evil child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
forest, curse, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, halloween, woods, haunted, supernatural, vengeance, danger, isolation, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, life is a bitch, vengeance, psychopath, danger, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, law enforcement, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, small town, murder, ghost, demon, danger, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, shopping mall, curses spells and rituals, investigation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, losing-it hero, suicide, uncover truth, danger, investigation, grudge, urban legend, haunted, darkness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young television reporter (or "investigative journalist") is attacked in her home, leading to her boyfriend being murdered. Six months later she returns to work in a smaller town, and stumbles across a house full of ghosts trying to call ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, supernatural ability, supernatural, danger, revenge, obsession, family problems, media, terrorism, journalism, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, serial killer, psychopath, murder, gory, ghost, uncover truth, youth, teenage life, vengeance, supernatural, violence spree ...
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
48%
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483
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, deadly creature, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, confined, violence, exorcism, demon, prisoner, jail cell, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
vampire, danger, curses spells and rituals, special agent, rivalry, law enforcement, confined, supernatural, captivity, good versus evil, save the day, showdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, who done it, psychopath, vengeance, ghost, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, murder, supernatural ability, obsessive quest, deadly creature ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an abused teenage girl murders her alcoholic mother, the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter her freedom.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
child abuse, murder, supernatural, ghost, dysfunctional family, teenage life, domestic disturbance, danger, life is a bitch, woman in danger, addiction, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
gold, danger, supernatural, ghost, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, revenge, dead, local legend, curse, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Tyge Murdock, a successful director of low-budget horror films, has been chasing monsters his whole life. When an actor is accidentally killed on the set of his latest production, Tyge returns to his hometown to reassess his life. But all new ...
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
vengeance, supernatural, rivalry, danger, mentally unstable, homecoming, isolation, filmmaking, captivity, gory, curses spells and rituals, underground ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Eye 10 (Chinese: 見鬼10; The Eye 3), or The Eye Infinity, is a 2005 Thai-Hong Kong horror film directed by the Pang brothers, starring Wilson Chen, Kate Yeung, Isabella Leong, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Ray MacDonald and Kris Gu. The number ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, siblings relations, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, levitation, graphic violence, extreme, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A website is seemingly killing every woman who views it within fifteen days. While investigating the phenomenon, a female reporter begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of the site known only as The White Room.
Style:
serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
afterlife, website, supernatural, computers and web, journalism, curses spells and rituals, pregnancy, technology gone awry, inventions and discoveries, danger, supernatural ability, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
deadly creature, supernatural, danger, youth, wilderness, teenage life, woods, curses spells and rituals, murder, nightmare, monster, mountain ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, ...
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot:
zombie, killer clown, vengeance, supernatural, clown, gory, small town, circus, evil clown, danger, brutality, dead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost. Min Ji-Won (Kim Ha-Neul) suffers from amnesia caused by an accident almost a year ago. After ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, mind twisting, bleak ...
Plot:
ghost, destiny, amnesia, haunted by the past, teenage life, supernatural, grudge, creepy kid, extreme, haunting, vengeance, youth ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A horror film about a group of online deviants who are invited to an abandoned factory to witness a bloodletting, an event displaying the torture and murder of an innocent person.
Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
factory, murder, survival, captivity, psychopath, confined, vengeance, gory, danger, rivalry, strong violent content, computers and web ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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