Movies like Evil Rising
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Evil Rising (2008)
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Original name: Sauna
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, disturbing, harsh, intense, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, redemption, guilt, russian, village, haunted by the past, medieval, curses spells and rituals, macabre, suspense, dark secret, brother brother relationship, religious differences, murderer, swamp, military, obsession, violence, finnish, gay, monster, serial killer, demon, snake ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, contemporary
Place:
finland, europe, russia
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Most similar movies to Evil Rising
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, psychological, suspenseful and weird films with plots about storytelling, macabre, brutality, supernatural, suspense, twists and turns and gory mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Evil Rising: The Orphanage (2007), Session 9 (2001), The Canal (2014), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style:
scary, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, fear, macabre, missing child, death, tragic event, twists and turns, afterlife, orphanage, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, transformation, hospital ...
Time:
21st century
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, cheating, husband wife relationship, tragedy, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, suspense, insanity, investigation, vengeance, castle, monster, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity, dishonesty, haunted by the past ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, 14th century
Place:
spain, europe
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38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies like The Visit
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
Style:
gothic, surreal, mind bending, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, monster, twists and turns, cult, suspense, cat, cemetery, obsession, black cat, hospital, male nudity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1820s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, witchcraft, religion, paranoia, isolation, wilderness, suspense, family bonds, black magic, curses spells and rituals, insanity ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, canada, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, ghost, supernatural, split personality, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, a vision, curses spells and rituals, death ...
Time:
1920s, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
46K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style:
scary, twist ending, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, car accident, secret lover, photographer, macabre, suspense, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, dark past ...
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Orphan similar movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening ...
Plot:
supernatural, childhood, ghost, haunted by the past, destiny, death, suspense, nightmare, hallucination, haunted house, hometown, mentally unstable ...
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33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style:
scary, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, voodoo, psychology, macabre, nightmare, disability, insanity, uncover truth, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 1988, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style:
scary, psychological, sinister, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, occult, possession, ghost, demon, ouija board, spiritualism, survival, suspense, teenager, haunted house ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Films like The Others
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, monster, mental disorder, nude ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
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31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
atmospheric, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, suspense, hallucination, drowning, serial killer, haunted by the past, twists and turns, grief, sex scene, blindness, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, curse, suspense, murder, macabre, runaway, investigation, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, chicago illinois, tokyo, usa, asia
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31%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, macabre, investigation, violent, voyeurism, death, twists and turns, videotaping, loser, research ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, medieval, macabre, revenge, suspense, plague, good versus evil, life & death, brutality, tragic villain, sacrifice ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, murder, macabre, suspense, suicide, paranormal activity, vengeance, death, demon ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, investigation, disability, insanity, death sentence, ghost, life philosophy, cult, revenge, psychiatry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, psychopath, murder, obsession, dark humor, insanity, mind game, woman in danger, split personality, vengeance, investigation ...
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, religion, exorcism, found footage, supernatural, demon, suspense, demonic possession, satanic cult, evil spirit, devil, preacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa, southern usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, suspense, supernatural, able to see the dead, hospital, woman in danger, fear, transplant, blindness, supernatural ability, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, japan, hong kong, asia, thailand
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30%
100K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, clergy, exorcism, church, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, supernatural ability, teachers and students, supernatural horror, suspense, demonic possession, catholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vatican, italy, latin america, europe, rome italy ...
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30%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
suspense, murder, elderly, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, family relations, farm, sibling relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, parents and children, basement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, paranormal activity, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, suspense, serial killer, boy, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's ...
Style:
scary, intense, gothic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, evil force, paranormal phenomena, funeral home, occult, seance, curses spells and rituals, reverend, hallucination, cancer patient, suspense ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
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29%
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