Movies like Hold Your Breath

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Hold Your Breath (2012)
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, slasher, disturbing, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, possession, prison, danger, youth, human host, redneck, serial killer, demon, exorcism, wrestling, grave, sexual content, violent content, female nudity, sex scene, cemetery, characters murdered one by one, vacation gone wrong, electric chair, bare breasts, graphic violence ...
Time: year 2012, 1950s, 50s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and serious films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, ghost, murder, curses spells and rituals and violent content mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Hold Your Breath: Playback (2012), The Appearing (2014), Killing Ariel (2008), Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014), Kill Katie Malone (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Playback (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, murder, youth, haunted by the past, urban legend, curses spells and rituals, found footage, evil, teenager, danger, serial killer, small town ...
Time: year 2011, year 1994, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
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The Appearing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, small town, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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48%
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Killing Ariel (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: femme fatale, supernatural, dangerous attraction, demon, murder, couples, dishonesty, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, psychiatric ward, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: prison, ghost, rivalry, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, frame up, captivity, found footage, haunting, afterlife, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, danger, supernatural, buddies, ghost, best friend, afterlife, murder, genie, paranormal, devil, vengeful ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Chosen (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, demon, saving a life, violence, death, meme, child in peril, girl, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, parents and children, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, danger, serial killer, legends and myths, family relations, single mother, haunted ...
Place: usa
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40%
Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, morgue, danger, supernatural, human host, friendship, ouija board, demonic possession, seance, death, ouija, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sam's Lake (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mysterious character, psychopath, urban legend, danger, wilderness, woods, best friend, redneck, serial killer, youth, violent content, profanity ...
Place: usa
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Death Factory (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, survival, jack the ripper, reincarnation, violence, abusive relationship, clown, killer clown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Closed for the Season (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, clown, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, killer clown, survival, evil, haunted, freak, amusement park, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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Methodic (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Methodic tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman". Forced to obey his dark half, the boy ultimately murders his parents on his birthday and is sentenced to a life under a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, mental institution, killer clown, possession, murder, psychiatrist, violence, demon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
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Visible Scars (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, confined, isolation, ghost, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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30%
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Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: halloween, serial killer, danger, stalking, youth, murder, bullying, massacre, torture, masked killer, killer, urban legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
Succubus: Hell-Bent (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sometimes what happens at Spring Break doesn't stay at Spring Break... it follows you home.
Style: sexy, suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: succubus, stalking, obsession, supernatural, femme fatale, curses spells and rituals, danger, womanizer, dangerous attraction, nightmare comes true, airplane crash, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
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29%
Paranormal Prison (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
Style: scary, psychotronic, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, found footage, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, investigation, chase, danger, peril, supernatural power, rescue, death, friendship ...
Place: usa, idaho
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27%
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Madison County (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, woods, uncover truth, danger, redneck, masked killer, murder, violence, animal mask, pig killer, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, haunted, haunting, haunted house, woman with a gun, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: paranormal, ghost, ghost story, paranormal phenomena, peril, demon, serial murder, deadly creature, friends, curses spells and rituals, revenge, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
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In the Trap (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Philip, a solitary proof reader, is trapped in his apartment, too afraid to leave and tortured by an unknown evil force that has kept him prisoner for the last two years.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, devil, exorcism, demon, danger, paranormal activity, haunted house, demonic possession, violence, curses spells and rituals, terror, ghost ...
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25%
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Rabid Love (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five recent college grads go for one last vacation in the woods during the summer of 1984 and one of them is infected with a mad scientist's synthetic rabies virus.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, supernatural, danger, buddies, escapades, group of friends, friendship, cabin in the woods, youth, virus, sexual content, gory ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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25%
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The Assent (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
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The Forest (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, profanity, woods, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
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Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, gas station, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, strong violent content, escapades, on the road, religious fanatic, gory, twins ...
Place: usa, california
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25%
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Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Last Exorcist (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot: exorcism, possession, sister sister relationship, obsession, demon, supernatural, violence, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, priest, murder, paranormal activity ...
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24%
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Detention (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, prank, youth, high school life, isolation, teenage life, high school, detention, stoner, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Evil Remains (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, survival, investigation, deadly creature, legends and myths, psychopath, supernatural, ghost, imaginary, murder, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: usa, louisiana
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