Movies like Housebound
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Housebound (2014)
40K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Style:
scary, horror comedy, creepy, frightening, black comedy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, funny, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, house arrest, haunted, female protagonist, plot twist, dark humor, parents and children, ghost, police investigation, blood, danger, halloween, darkness, family relations, supernatural, mind game, small town, woman in danger, twists and turns, strong female lead, psychopath, psycho, mother, house, spirit ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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Most similar movies to Housebound
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, haunted house, haunted, macabre and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Housebound: The Frighteners (1996), The Visit (2015), Ready or Not (2019), The Orphanage (2007), House of the Long Shadows (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style:
scary, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, serial killer, haunted house, dark humor, funeral, psychic, supernatural ability, violence, architect, car accident, death of wife ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1800s, 1950s, 70s
Place:
oklahoma city, oceania, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
172K
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, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
danger, elderly, murder, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, basement, farm, parents and children, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
67%
230K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style:
horror comedy, scary, suspense, brutal, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
game, rite, satanic cult, hide and seek, ritual, wedding, pursuit, family curse, fiancee, murder, woman kills a man, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, year 2019, 80s
Place:
illinois, canada
Similarity:
77%
170K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
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:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has ...
Style:
slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, retro ...
Plot:
haunted, house, writers, mind game, murder, supernatural, cannon, old dark house, trapped, american abroad, writing a novel, bet ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 1982
Place:
wales
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
creepy, spooky, suspenseful, frightening, gothic ...
Plot:
ritual, satanic cult, supernatural, female protagonist, macabre, satanic ritual, haunted house, devil, sacrifice, lunar eclipse, female college student, religious cult ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
99K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
41%
157K
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:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, haunted, spirit, ghost, medium, supernatural horror, evil spirit, psychic, father daughter relationship, demon, father ...
Time:
year 2010, 1950s, year 1953, 50s
Similarity:
41%
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, spooky, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, old dark house, supernatural horror, paranormal, family in danger, family problems, obsession, parallel world, missing child, mind game, haunted, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, supernatural horror, demon, curses spells and rituals, family in danger, family problems, supernatural power, seance, possession, imaginary ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, year 2007, 80s, 70s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets ...
Style:
scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, paranormal investigator, spirit, mind game, fear, brutality, danger, trapped, ghost, supernatural, haunted, vengeance ...
Place:
oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
39%
16K
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:
suspense, creepy, suspenseful, surreal, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, male nudity, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, xmas ...
Time:
2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style:
scary, dark, creepy, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, demon, child in peril, ghost, fear, psychic, family in danger, paranormal investigation, haunting, possession ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
england, peru, london
Similarity:
39%
118K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, twists and turns, strong female lead, deathtrap, masked man, parents and children, blood ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
39%
35K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Style:
suspense, christmas horror, twist ending, clever, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, time loop, fear, forest, supernatural horror, wrong place wrong time, road trip, danger, supernatural, lost in the woods, gory, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
year 2003
Similarity:
39%
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:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
39%
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53K
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, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, ghost, supernatural horror, photographer, supernatural, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, secret lover, spirit, darkroom, blood ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, sisters, missing person, twists and turns, destiny, hallucination, forest, mental illness, haunted house, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural horror, ghost, supernatural, child in peril, parents and children, paranormal activity, survival horror, danger, family relations, spirit, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
38%
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, haunted, violence, nanny, mansion, old dark house, macabre, murder, governess ...
Time:
year 2016, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, america, usa
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. ...
Style:
suspense, spooky, surprise ending, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, country house, brother brother relationship, family in danger, home invasion, uncover truth, haunted by the past, confined, twists and turns, parents and children, isolation ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help ...
Style:
mockumentary, psychological horror, scary, creepy, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, found footage, haunted house, slow burn, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, family life, drowning, lake, psychic, uncover truth, investigation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
37%
616K
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, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted by the past, woman in danger, vengeance, danger, riddles and clues, macabre, haunted house, rivalry, wedding, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK, Netherlands
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, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, able to see the dead, supernatural, blindness, afterlife, fear, woman in danger, transplant, supernatural ability, transformation, elevator, gory ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, thailand, japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
creepy, demonic, tense, suspenseful, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, paranormal activity, found footage, haunted house, supernatural horror, haunting, paranormal phenomena, demon, child in peril, monster, haunted ...
Time:
80s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, year 1988 ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Real-life pop stars Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung star in a ghastly (and funny) tale about eight siblings who share the same father but have different mothers. The group gathers at their late father's mansion to discuss his will, but just ...
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, love affair, parents and children, danger, family relations, family gatherings, ghost, orphan, dealing with death, estate, curses spells and rituals ...
Similarity:
36%
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