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Mercury (2018)
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Original name: மெர்குரி
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Five friends, all affected in some way by a mercury poisoning incident are partying when a freak accident put them on a collision course with an entity that is in no mood to forgive their misgivings.
Style:
medical horror, silent, atmospheric, black and white, psychological horror, tense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, creepy ...
Plot:
macabre, unsettling, high school reunion, body horror, guilt, minimal dialogue, social commentary, trauma, haunting, revenge, supernatural, retribution, claustrophobia, isolation, survival, friendship, fate, accident, tamil, reunion, no dialogue
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological horror, suspense and surreal films with plots about isolation, supernatural, claustrophobia, slow burn, macabre, haunting and guilt mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Mercury: Lookout (2025), Beezel (2024), Never Blink (2025), Valari (2024), The Devil's Trap (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seeking peace away from her turbulent life, a young woman accepts a job as a fire lookout at a remote wilderness tower. As she settles into her new role, eerie disturbances and strange occurrences begin to unfold, and she must uncover the chilling ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the flesh of the living.
Style:
creepy, gothic, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
flesh eating, haunted house, supernatural, witchcraft, curse, mature, macabre, body horror, occult, claustrophobia, folklore, generation ...
Place:
new england
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86%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Five medical students discover a way to capture what you can't see when you blink and the results are terrifying. A frightening journey into the macabre world that will make you never blink again. In a blink of an eye, you will die.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fear of death, macabre, claustrophobia, supernatural, paranoia, isolation, body horror, university, urban, parallel universe, monster, scientific research ...
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83%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
What happens when your past comes back to haunt you in the most supernatural way? And what if you don't even remember it?
Style:
creepy, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the quiet nighttime corridors of a city hospital, Abigail (Nistratova) consoles her traumatized brother, Billy (Davi) who is now a paraplegic. Billy suffers from horrible nightmares in which he revisits his childhood, where we meet his alcoholic ...
Style:
tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
trauma, hospital, haunting, supernatural, nightmare, death, isolation, demonic possession, paranormal, claustrophobia, family drama, guilt ...
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79%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Whether it's bots in the bloodstream, a silent stranger by the road or even a single, all-consuming thought, death comes in peculiar forms in this wildly creative collection of shorts, offering five gruesome tales of the strange and the ...
Style:
anthology, creepy, surreal, twisted, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death, mortality, body horror, macabre, paranoia, fatalism, isolation, infection, violence, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, dark humor ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Story:
Horror Anthology "60 second short films that will scar you for a lifetime"
Style:
scary, disturbing, creepy, tense, dark ...
Plot:
fear, haunting, mature, omnibus, macabre, supernatural, panic, claustrophobia, urban legend, underground, isolation, blood ...
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66%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The pasts of three brothers and their deceased father collide when a deep, dark family secret is unearthed, leading to a case of revenge from beyond the grave.
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, mystical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, secret, family relations, supernatural, family secret, paranormal phenomena, evil, paranormal activity, dysfunctional family, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Fear engulfs a village as murders pile up mysteriously. Shailu, a young woman, is the heart of the story and the enigmatic tale unravels with a suspenseful cinematic journey.
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, small village, macabre, investigation, trauma, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn, guilt, supernatural, revenge, violence ...
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62%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On a rainy night, Jaanu returns home after shopping, only to encounter strange and eerie happenings, questioning if there's an evil presence, presenting challenges that she must navigate to overcome the hurdles thrown her way.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
female protagonist, paranoia, uncertainty, macabre, claustrophobia, supernatural, isolation, independent woman, survival, slow burn, haunting, paranormal ...
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60%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, emotional ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, fear, female protagonist, group of strangers, sleeping, dreamscape, alternate reality, supernatural, haunting, insomnia, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, tense, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
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59%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Debbie attempts to contact the spirit of her deceased husband Sam, she inadvertently contacts Srinivasan, who had just died. This contact saves his life but leaves him in a coma for years. Later, Debbie unravels mystery about Lord Demonte ...
Style:
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Plot:
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58%
182
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A developer relocates to a remote island with his family, where the cursed land takes over his soul, but will it make him a killer?
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, serious, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
remote island, obsession, paranormal phenomena, possessed, curses spells and rituals, cursed, curse, murder, island, murderer, possession, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, coma, school, alternate reality, missing child, supernatural horror, abandoned building, parents and children, paranormal, survival, isolation ...
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54%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.
Style:
suspense, sinister, psychological thriller, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, paranormal, isolation, estranged couple, road trip, nightmare, slow burn, character study, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
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49%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
lovecraft, disturbing, tense, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
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49%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Step into the abyss of fear with a spine-chilling horror/thriller feature film anthology. Uncover tales of demonic entities, the paranormal, ancient creature gods, and unknown mysteries. Explore the depths of terror in this gripping experience. ...
Style:
suspense, dark, sinister, anthology, demonic ...
Plot:
creature, macabre, paranormal, haunting, supernatural, occult, possession, ancient, cosmic horror, ritual, violent, claustrophobia ...
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47%
478
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Finland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
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47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
Style:
mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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46%
111
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Following the murder of his wife and son, an agoraphobic man becomes convinced that someone, or something is invading his home... Kindred is a tense psychological thriller set entirely inside the home of the protagonist.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
isolation, grief, family tragedy, loneliness, mourning, mental breakdown, paranoia, male protagonist, claustrophobia, supernatural, guilt, character study ...
Similarity:
45%
277
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
Style:
dark, psychological, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
security guard, morgue, nightshift, psychological torment, supernatural, isolation, haunting, silence, mental breakdown, paranoia, claustrophobia, loneliness ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a young author returns to her horror roots, terrible things begin to happen around her.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, female protagonist, writer's block, supernatural, isolation, mental breakdown, slow burn, identity crisis, secrets, character study, guilt, a vision ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Another grab bag of horror shorts tossed together into an anthology package.
Style:
anthology, dark, twisted, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
paranormal, ghost, supernatural, ghoul, monster, creature, fear, nightmare, macabre, body horror, psychosis, underground ...
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43%
Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
creepy, intense, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of ordinary people band together in a suburban home to battle imposters who have replaced their families, friends, and neighbors.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, battles, body snatcher, paranoid schizophrenia, secret, psychopath, survival, alien invasion, paranoid, isolation, home invasion ...
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41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After an accident that killed both of Tara's parents, Tara now only has a younger brother named Gian as a member of her family. However, the accident traumatized Gian, so Gian chose to end his life.
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, creepy, supernatural thriller, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, possession, haunted doll, evil doll, trauma, paranormal, grief, family tragedy, vengeful ghost, doll, guilt, revenge ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple embarks on a weekend getaway only to find the island curiously deserted. After stumbling upon the town’s dark secret, they trigger a time loop, forcing them to relive a demented cycle of terror with seemingly no means of escape.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, psychological horror, mystical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time loop, night, island, rehearsal, dark secret, isolation, nightmare, supernatural horror, time warp, mysticism, driven mad, abandoned city ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. After a traumatic experience during a holiday trip, she develops a sleep disorder and starts suffering from very vivid nightmares. At work, the studio microphones pick up strange ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
nightmare, female protagonist, identity crisis, trauma, split personality, unsettling, psychological trauma, escape from reality, borderline personality disorder, psychological torment, disturbed individual, career ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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