Movies like The Spiral

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The Spiral (1998)
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The Spiral (1998)
Original name: らせん
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sequel to cult film
Plot: curse, supernatural, ghost, car accident, rebirth, code, spell, terror, videotaping, extreme, cursed object, autopsy, accomplice, serial killer, pathology, heroes, gory, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, couples, vengeance, rivalry, danger, family problems, terminal illness ...
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Most similar movies to The Spiral

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about supernatural, deadly, danger, ghost, murder, blood and gore mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Spiral: Spiral (2000), The Ring 2 (1999), Ring 0: Birthday (2000), One Missed Call 2 (2005), Body (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spiral (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, small town, surrealism, transformation, insanity, cosmic horror, body horror, curse, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Ring 2 (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s ...
Style: scary, surprise ending, splatter, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: curse, ghost, supernatural power, psychic, evil child, revenge, supernatural, vengeance, good versus evil, extreme, videotaping, myth ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
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: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, danger, mental illness, twists and turns, curses spells and rituals, a vision, gory ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, afterlife, curse, investigation, vengeance, journalism, danger, supernatural, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, cell phone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Body (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody ...
Plot: ghost, murder, danger, hypnosis, husband wife relationship, imaginary friend, mental illness, hallucination, investigation, haunted house, haunted, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.1
 733
The Hypnotist (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of ...
Style: detective, bloody, action thriller, saga, scary ...
Plot: wedding, hypnosis, police detective, violent content, environmentalism, afterlife, memory loss, curses spells and rituals, murder, who done it, mental illness, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 6K
The Guardian (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
Style: scary, suspenseful, sexy, creepy, erotic ...
Plot: supernatural, witch, death, babies and infants, gory, macabre, mysterious character, danger, hidden identity, human sacrifice, curses spells and rituals, folk horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
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Phobia (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 240 min.
Story: 4bia or Phobia (Thai: สี่แพร่ง or See Prang) is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange ...
Style: anthology, suspense, scary, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: curse, ghost, black magic, drowning, bullying, vengeance, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: vengeful ghost, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, ghost story, revenge, curse, supernatural, danger, abandoned house, curses spells and rituals, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
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, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Style: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark ...
Plot: curse, haunted house, supernatural, murder, afterlife, fear, brutality, grudge, investigation, danger, missing child, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 6K
Marebito (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Style: disturbing, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, found footage, murder, obsession, danger, investigation, haunted by the past, gory, extreme, ghost, vampire, asian school ...
Time: year 2004
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 35K
Dark Water (2002)
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: psychological, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, haunted, nightmare, haunted by the past, danger, losing-it hero, custody, parents and children, family problems, single parent ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, supernatural, rivalry, gory, premonition, death, train, father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Spider Forest (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, disturbing ...
Plot: forest, supernatural, murder, ghost, uncover truth, violent death, police investigation, life is a bitch, danger, haunted by the past, time travel, offscreen killing ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.6
 20K
The Grudge 3 (2009)
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: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, curse, demonic possession, haunted house, murder, runaway, serial killer, investigation, profanity, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, chicago, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, slasher ...
Plot: nightmare, serial killer, police investigation, supernatural, rivalry, supernatural ability, danger, murder, psychopath, gory, surrealism, stranger ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 902
Inugami (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the ...
Style: psychedelic, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Plot: incestuous sex, fall in love, ghost, danger, curse, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, supernatural, social relations, curses spells and rituals, small town, witch ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 5K
The Eye 2 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she ...
Style: scary, suspense, art house, saga, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, reincarnation, pregnancy, spirit, suicide, babies and infants, suicide attempt, paranormal, hospital, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.4
 1K
Scary Hair (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Chi-Hyon takes home her young sister, Su Hyon, a terminal cancer patient, so that she can help her enjoy her remaining time on earth, she buys her a wig to mask the effects of chemotherapy -- not realizing that the wig is, in fact, demonic. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, curse, danger, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, terminal illness, teenage life, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 3K
Gemini (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Style: psychedelic, controversial, disturbing, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Plot: twins, revenge, lookalikes, sex, trippy, asian prostitute, amnesia, patricide, twin brother, impostor, couples, disorder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5.5
 14K
In Dreams (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dream, supernatural, insanity, murder mystery, investigation, danger, supernatural ability, woman in danger, haunted by the past, nightmare ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
One Missed Call (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, creepy, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, hospital, investigation, uncover truth, cowardice, friendship, delusion, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, spirit ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.4
 912
The Seamstress (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: curse, afterlife, serial killer, island, vigilantism, ghost, seamstress, vengeance, supernatural, family problems, curses spells and rituals, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend ...
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, frightening, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, macabre, big city, prostitute, pregnancy, psychopath, couples, danger, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, journalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.3
 11K
The Dark (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mind game, mysterious character, afterlife, sect ...
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.5
 836
Hellgate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense
Plot: ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, parallel world, imaginary, nightmare, car accident, afterlife, death, son, wife, deja vu ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Last Supper (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret in THE LAST SUPPER. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, cannibalism, restaurant, obsession, supernatural, gory, cooking and food, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chef, wedding day, food, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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