Movies like Dark Woods 2003

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Dark Woods (2003)
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Dark Woods (2003)
Original name: Villmark
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The crew of the TV show "Real TV" with controlling boss Gunnar on the front line will soon begin production of a reality show for which participants are selected to survive in the wilderness. Gunnar has gathered a production team of four people: The friends Lasse and Per , the Swedish girl Elin and the new girl Sara. To test his new employees, Gunnar takes them to a log cabin where he used to spend summers as a kid. The cabin is located far away from civilisation, hidden in the dark, mysterious woods. The team has to make it through a weekend, finding food that nature has to offer, and neither cellular phones nor cigarettes are allowed. When Lasse and Per find a dead body in a lake near the cottage, the group is being tested. Gunnar is suggesting that they should continue the weekend without mentioning anything to Sara and Elin about what they found. But soon the team experiences some escalating incidents which lead to paranoia, accusations and mistrust.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, splatter, creepy, cult classic, cult horror, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: wilderness, survival, gory, woods, tv crew, psychopath, supernatural, isolation, danger, deadly creature, twists and turns, witch, haunting, redneck, travel, ghost, killer, witchcraft, magician, darkness, blood, supernatural power, backwoods, holiday horror, cabin in the woods ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe
Keyword: norwegian, norway, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, survival, gory, supernatural, woods and isolation mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Dark Woods: Cold Prey (2006), Cold Prey III (2010), And Soon the Darkness (2010), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), The Monitor (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cold Prey (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eirik and his girlfriend, Jannicke, join newly coupled Mikael and Ingunn, along with single wisecracker Morten, on a snowboarding excursion to a remote mountainous region in Norway. When Morten breaks his leg, however, and requires medical ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: mountain, hotel, psychopath, group of friends, characters killed one by one, snow, trap, snowboarding, winter, isolation, danger, sole survivor ...
Time: year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: europe
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Cold Prey III (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Takes place in the '80s where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
Style: slasher, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, friends, psychopath, winter, woods, cruelty, hotel, escapades, danger, profanity, buddies, graphic violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
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And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, missing friend, friendship, woman in danger, expedition, torture, rescue, bicycle, murder, hostage, survival horror, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, somalia
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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100%
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The Monitor (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Next Door (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.
Style: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, obsession, neighbor, seduction, sexual relations, surrealism, mentally unstable, dishonesty, couples, breakup, voyeur, haunting ...
Time: distant future
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
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Detour (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Driving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one creepy incident after another leaves them stranded in the dark woods and everything seems much too ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: blood, woods, stranded, danger, isolation, deathtrap, escapades, video surveillance, redneck, crazy family, travel, backwoods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Incubus (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
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The Reeds (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boat, supernatural, survival, curse, danger, deadly creature, psychopath, gory, curses spells and rituals, redneck, time loop, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Hidden (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: house, dead mother, mental illness, homecoming, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, death in the family, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, danger, survival, isolation, forest, revenge, camping, decapitation, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Somebody Help Me (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
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High Lane (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
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Manhunt (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Its the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened ...
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
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Place: europe
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Thale (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 76 min.
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The Roost (2005)
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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
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45%
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Silent Retreat (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, tense, captivating ...
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Place: canada
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The Cavern (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: cave, survival, research, serial killer, adventurer, rescue, danger, confined, escapades, chaos, isolation, wilderness ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: russia, asia
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Abandoned Mine (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five school friends seek adventure on Halloween night in an abandoned, haunted mine, only to find to their horror that the ghostly rumors may be true as they fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Witches in the Woods (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, survival, danger, youth, murder, friendship, snow, woods, witch, witchcraft, vacation gone wrong, backwoods ...
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Animal (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As ...
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Splintered (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sophie is a troubled young girl, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and harbouring a deep fascination with the unexplained. In the hope of satiating her obsession with the latter, she instigates a trip to the Welsh countryside with four ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Deadly Weekend (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Undertow (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, survival, serial killer, psychopath, backwoods, violence spree, escapades, danger, supernatural, wilderness, family in danger, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
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The Unknown (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A film unit goes for a shoot deep into a forestThey settle at a place with bare minimal facilities run by a strange and quirky man called Setu.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, deadly creature, danger, rivalry, supernatural, filmmaking, characters killed one by one, murder, fear, isolation, woods, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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44%
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Crowsnest (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot: found footage, on the road, murder, survival, isolation, buddies, confined, danger, friendship, wilderness, cannibalism, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Devil's Ground (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with ...
Style: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, masked killer, violence spree, psychopath, danger, murder, gory, redneck, ghost, serial killer, backwoods, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, witch, supernatural ability, surveillance, danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, mysterious death, witchcraft, human sacrifice, found footage, lesbian ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 2000s
Place: maryland, usa, boston
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