Movies like The Amityville Haunting
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The Amityville Haunting (2011)
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, dark
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, danger, haunted house, blood splatter, found footage, supernatural, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, deadly, domestic disturbance, violence, death, kitchen, female nudity, paranormal phenomena, killings, running, paranormal, house, abandoned house, evil, fear, night, murder, paranormal activity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Amityville Haunting
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and dark films with plots about danger, ghost, supernatural, haunted house, deadly, murder and death mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Amityville Haunting: The Conjuring (2013), Grave Encounters (2011), Amityville 3-D (1983), 8213: Gacy House (2010), Chasing the Devil (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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389K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, dark, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, danger, paranormal activity, exorcism, witch, seance, riddles and clues, investigation, fear, evil force ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century, 70s, contemporary, year 1971 ...
Place:
rhode island, usa, new england
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100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, paranormal, danger, deadly, found footage, paranormal investigation, insanity, blood, abandoned hospital, tv host ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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60%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In March 1963, a black mass was held at a ruined church in Clophill, Bedfordshire by a coven of dark witches. Tombs were looted, animals sacrificed and human bones arranged during a macabre ceremony. Further defilements continued at Clophill in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, dark
Plot:
church, danger, deadly, curses spells and rituals, escapades, village life, ghost, zombie, village, supernatural, wizards and magicians, interview ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
england
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57%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, based on supposedly true story, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, burned alive, ghost, supernatural, island, curses spells and rituals, family relations, danger, family in danger, imaginary, parents and children, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, dark
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, investigation, danger, found footage, supernatural, crime, crimes, mystery, deadly, suburbs, frame up ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Conjuring related movies
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Patrick McCord doesn't accept the explanation of his sister's mysterious death as suicide, and instead teams up with a team of paranormal investigators to delve deeper into the inexplicable circumstances that surround what he believes to ...
Style:
rough, mind bending, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, danger, supernatural, deadly, gory, riddles and clues, crimes, chase, paranormal phenomena, stabbed in the eye, characters killed one by one, demonic possession ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, surprise ending
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, prison, possession, electric chair, curses spells and rituals, deadly, supernatural, danger, youth, urban legend, throat ripping, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 1950s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, dark
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, murder, halloween, dormitory, spirit, insanity, found footage, ouija board, paranormal investigation, deadly ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were ...
Style:
based on supposedly true story, rough, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, demonic possession, deadly, suburbs, woman in danger, danger, mystery, writing, attic ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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44%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young couple accept an offer for $2 million to stay in a haunted house for a week. Based on real footage and events.
Plot:
corridor, obscurity, door, video camera, bedroom, ghost, screaming in horror, screaming, haunted house, evil, bed, panic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Sinister related movies
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, suspenseful, rough, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, murder, ghost, family in danger, attic, danger, fear, filmed killing, investigation, crime, small town ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2011, year 2012, year 1998 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, st. louis missouri
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67%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense, scary
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, danger, supernatural, uncover truth, writer's life, curses spells and rituals, artists and showbiz, fear
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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43%
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, suspenseful, rough, macabre, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, murder, family in danger, paranormal, indian burial ground, haunted, danger, mystery, deadly, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
long island, new jersey
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42%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an artist. Ian's a filmmaker. And their love life is off the chain. There's no ...
Style:
scary, rough, realistic, serious
Plot:
danger, found footage, estate, survival, isolation, confined, couples, gory, deadly, supernatural, hallway, tragic event ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
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41%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, deadly, slasher, danger, gore, video camera, threesome, stabbing, stabbed with scissors, car driving ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Films like Paranormal Activity
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
haunted house, time warp, deadly, confined, haunted by the past, supernatural, isolation, danger, ghost, murder, son murders mother, killer child ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
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40%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, demonic
Plot:
supernatural, curses spells and rituals, danger, dealing with death, filmmaking, drugs/alcohol, paranormal activity, fear, brutality, psychological torment, evil, occult ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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39%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, occult, supernatural, supernatural ability, family problems, afterlife, danger, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, paranormal phenomena, dollhouse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in ...
Style:
dark
Plot:
mysterious death, looking at the camera, talking to the camera, cruelty, fear, camera, blood, evil, danger, darkness, obscurity, night ...
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38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, countryside, couples, gory, danger, isolation, couple relations, spirit
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, tv show, deadly, isolation, danger, survival, media, escapades, imaginary, conquering ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
564
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Struggling filmmakers - Kennedy, Cory and James - finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the-scenes' documentary for a major studio production. But their dream job quickly turns into a ...
Style:
tense, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
ghost, filmmaking, found footage, danger, artists and showbiz, confined, escapades, hospital, gory, deadly, supernatural, rapist ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
415
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two skeptic researchers investigate a mother's claim that an unknown presence may be trying to communicate with her 7-year-old daughter.
Style:
dark
Plot:
paranormal investigation, evil, screaming, panic, computer, running, cell phone, video camera, mother, ghost, investigation, haunted house ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a ...
Style:
scary, serious, gothic, suspense
Plot:
ghost, curses spells and rituals, pregnancy, haunted house, supernatural, danger, couple relations, hallucination, female protagonist, ghost story, paranormal phenomena, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s, 19th century, 1920s ...
Place:
usa, new hampshire
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37%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Style:
mind bending, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, deadly, curses spells and rituals, mystery, crimes, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, supernatural, afterlife, danger, filmmaking ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Films like Oculus
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, gory, family in danger, vengeance, danger, murder, supernatural ability, deadly, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
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36%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, zombie, haunted house, filmmaking, house, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, artists and showbiz, deadly, estate, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, utah
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34%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demonic possession, ouija board, found footage, supernatural, haunted house, young people, couples, evil force, attic, paranormal activity, videotaping, invisibility ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2006
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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34%
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:
scary, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, child killer, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, gory, deadly, gore, blood, actor
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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34%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, offbeat ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, inheritance, demon, supernatural ability, danger, old house, curses spells and rituals, creature, locked room, dark past, fireplace ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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