Movies like The Hangman 2024
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The Hangman (2024)
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Troubled father Leon takes son camping in Appalachia. Local cult summons evil Hangman demon. Son goes missing. Leon must confront cult, monster to find him amid rising body count.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspense, dark, demonic, religious horror, psychological, brutal, grim, independent film
Plot:
father son relationship, monster, supernatural, missing child, occult, isolation, ritual, rescue mission, woods, survival, violence, camping, redemption, family drama, small town, guilt, trauma, revenge, investigation, moral ambiguity, slow burn, camping trip, cult, body count
Place:
appalachia
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Most similar movies to The Hangman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, dark and atmospheric films with plots about isolation, supernatural, investigation, occult, survival, revenge and slow burn mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Hangman: Mangalavaaram (2023), Feral (2006), Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025), Virupaksha (2023), Woodland Grey (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Similarity:
95%
86
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In this terrifying tale, a young couple goes on a desperate search for their daughter who's disappeared without a trace into the nearby woods -- the same woods that have recently claimed and released the mutilated bodies of several animals. ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
monster, missing child, family tragedy, man versus nature, violence, guilt, paranoia, cover up, isolation, parents, creature feature, desperation ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
Style:
demonic, suspenseful, intense, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
demon, apocalypse, occult, possession, supernatural, investigation, rescue mission, survival, urban, panic, police procedural, family drama ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in a village named Rudravanam in 1990's, Surya along with his mother, visit there after a long time. Suddenly a series of mysterious deaths occur due to an unknown person's occult practice and whole village is scared. Will Surya find ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
occult, satanic cult, fear, supernatural, village, murderer, murder, murder mystery, secret, mysticism, religious cult, curse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man living alone in the woods saves the life of a young woman, they are forced to coexist. Chaos ensues when the woman makes a terrifying discovery in the woods behind the man's home and unleashes something truly haunting.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, vengeful ghost, secret, forest, problem, undercover, isolation, haunting, woods, paranormal, secrets ...
Similarity:
50%
49
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An evil supernatural presence terrorizes the locals of a small town.
Style:
creepy, sinister, dark, demonic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, small town, found footage, paranormal, unsettling, haunting, isolation, possession, ghost, occult, nightmare, confrontation ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.
Style:
thrilling, scary, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, curse, cursed, evil, supernatural being, supernatural power, supernatural horror, monster, curses spells and rituals, macabre, occult ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A devoted couple's quiet weekend takes a bizarre turn when a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader come to fulfill an apocalyptic prophesy.
Style:
religious horror, suspense, intense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
occult, supernatural, religious fanaticism, home invasion, ritual, small town, folk horror, ritual sacrifice, psychological trauma, claustrophobia, paranoia, obsession ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Stranded in a remote graveyard, special investigation officer Amar Patnaik uncovers chilling secrets, only to realise he's caught in a gripping tale of Karma and Fate
Style:
suspense, dark, detective, sinister, crime thriller ...
Plot:
karma, investigation, fate, claustrophobia, ethical dilemma, isolation, moral ambiguity, guilt, supernatural, cemetery, haunting, mature ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
INDRA is a serial killer investigation film about an ex-cop who lost his eyesight and sets out to find the killer terrorizing the town. What follows is a gripping chase full of twists and turns — but what if the hunter ends up ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, revenge, obsession, cat and mouse, ex cop, justice, corruption, moral ambiguity, urban, chase, survival ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Aspiring YouTuber Gi-ho stages a fake seance for viral content, but Ja-young joins, seeking her missing sister Seo-woo. In an underground cistern, Seo-woo volunteers as the "possessed," but when she collapses, terror unfolds. Trapped with ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, twist ending, supernatural thriller, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, possession, ghost, seance, ritual, haunting, missing sister, paranormal activity, isolation, secret past, confined, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
40%
267
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
brutal, tense, suspense, dark, slasher
Plot:
creature feature, monster, government conspiracy, survival horror, survival, mysterious stranger, gory, camping trip, violent, military, isolation, chase ...
Similarity:
40%
86
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two years ago, a chest appeared in the woods. It could not be moved. It could not be opened. Its contents were unknown. The dead began to appear within the week. Today, a police trainee is tasked with guarding the chest. And for the first time since ...
Style:
tense, suspense, sinister, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
religious cult, supernatural, trap, forest, threat, trapped, isolation, paranoia, paranormal, survival, imprisonment, superstition ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Clare Bleecker is an average Catholic high school student who lives with her grandparents after being orphaned. She seems normal, but Clare will do whatever it takes to protect loved ones when confronted by the evil she faces in her small town.
Style:
dark, psychological, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, vigilante, moral ambiguity, mature, possession, revenge, trauma, corruption, small town, teenager, vigilante justice ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pair of psychic investigators are hired to find out who's ritualistically murdering people at a popular Halloween haunted attraction, Frightland. The bodies begin piling up as the owner of Frightland loses patience. Will the investigators ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, sinister, creepy, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
halloween, revenge, fear, ritual, serial killer, masked killer, killer on the loose, investigation, macabre, occult, small town, panic ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Moore's Lake: a small town plagued by feral vampires. Its only chance to survive rests on an all-powerful ghoul that long ago vowed to seek vengeance upon the town.
Style:
suspense, dark, grim, demonic, bleak ...
Plot:
vampire, undead, supernatural, blood, monster, resurrection, ghoul, post apocalyptic, zombie, apocalypse, revenge, fear ...
Similarity:
37%
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 ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An investigation into a retired WWII sub plunges a research team into a supernatural journey across the dark abyss of time - with history hanging in the balance.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, trapped, isolation, supernatural, travel, investigation, claustrophobia, alternate history, sacrifice, paranormal, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trapped on an island, a team of mercenaries on a rescue mission begin to question everything around them as they encounter threatening creatures living in the shadows.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, captivating, exciting, scary ...
Plot:
monster, island, survival, scientist, survival horror, remote island, struggle for survival, teaching, female scientist, claustrophobia, isolation, rehearsal ...
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, strong violent content, vampire, supernatural, murder, investigation, brutality, secret organization, showdown, violent, secret society, cat and mouse ...
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, psychological, tense, gothic ...
Plot:
occult, mirror, spirit, ghost, supernatural, possession, psychiatrist, macabre, paranormal, obsession, resurrection, superstition ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A ghost walking tour group visits an abandoned radio station, inadvertently awakening a vengeful spirit.
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted, supernatural, paranormal, abandoned building, fear, darkness, urban legend, terror, claustrophobia, isolation, panic ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young man makes a deal with a man at a club to bring a bag to a mysterious stranger with the promise of getting a great sum of money. The mysterious stranger, though, commands him to bring the bag to another man, named Daniel, at a heathen place ...
Style:
tense, sinister, dark, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
occult, sacrifice, curse, moral ambiguity, journey, doom, supernatural, paranoia, guilt, isolation, quest, satanism ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful, psychological, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, father son relationship, dark past, legacy, family drama, protective father, trauma, paranoia, brotherhood, monster hunter, occult ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After losing their home following a devastating tragedy, a father and son are forced to move to an old family cabin. Neither reacts well to being thrown into this new world. The son's attempts to relate to his father are complicated when two ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot:
bigfoot, creature feature, sasquatch, murder, hunting, camping, survival, danger, father son relationship, relocation, violence, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington state
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marines units stationed there in 1944, said to be at the hands of the ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, grim, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, werewolf, creature feature, occult, supernatural, monster, massacre, violence, isolation, military, survival, remote island ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jennifer's search for her brother leads her to something not of this world.
Style:
creepy, serious, dread, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
alternate reality, brother sister relationship, child abuse, female nudity, a vision, supernatural, dark past, disappearance, mysterious past, vanished man, secret past, mysterious disappearance ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The horror story based on Nikolai Gogol novel.
Style:
psychological, suspense, enigmatic, demonic, exciting ...
Plot:
small town, witch, occult, priest, police, supernatural, faith, loss of faith, redemption, transformation, possession, guilt ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A desperate man kills a mother of twins, takes them to a house in the woods, and locks them up. His madness escalates keeping his dark secret. When a house fire causes a collapse on all of them, the story is buried until a young woman stumbles on ...
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy, disturbing ...
Plot:
child abduction, murder, dark secret, kidnapping, madness, home invasion, isolation, obsession, investigation, cold case, traumatic past, violent ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy's identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, superstition, ptsd, folklore, supernatural, love interest, forest, post traumatic stress disorder, abandoned baby, child in peril, danger, isolation ...
Similarity:
30%
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