Movies like Nightmare at the End of the Hall

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Nightmare at the End of the Hall (2008)
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Nightmare at the End of the Hall (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Courtney Snow, an author with writer's block, still haunted by the suicide of her best friend while they were in prep school, finds herself teaching at the very same school while trying to get back on her feet. She encounters a young student, Laurel, who seems in every way to be the reincarnation of her best friend from years ago. Laurel seems to know things about Courtney that only dead friend would have known. Is she losing her mind or is it all a cruel hoax?
Style: atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious, mind bending
Plot: reincarnation, suicide, teacher, best friend, supernatural, preparatory school, youth, family relations, boarding school, boarding school life, fraud, ghost, school, power relations, love triangle, cheating, daughter, dormitory, death of friend, best friends, dorm room, lifetime
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s

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Most similar movies to Nightmare at the End of the Hall

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and realistic films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, deadly, family relations, youth and curses spells and rituals mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Nightmare at the End of the Hall: Drowning Ghost (2004), The Turn of the Screw (2009), Inheritance (2004), They're Watching Us (2002), Feng shui (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Drowning Ghost (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: boarding school, ghost, murder, vengeance, investigation, teenage life, life turned upside down, supernatural, youth, legends and myths, gory, drowning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, estate, repression, sibling relationship, youth, female nudity, haunting, possession, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Inheritance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, mental illness, supernatural ability, danger, mentally unstable, curses spells and rituals, schizophrenia, spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
They're Watching Us (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who ...
Style: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: ghost, missing person, police investigation, family relations, police detective, uncover truth, supernatural, law enforcement, danger, mental institution, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Feng shui (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, superstition, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, horoscope, buddha, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Dead Innocent (1997)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, mysterious character, danger, chases and races, confined, woman in danger, eye, supernatural being, police, child in peril, strong female presence, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Hush Little Baby (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young mother suffers her worst nightmare -the drowning of her young daughter. Two years later, Jamie gives birth to another girl. After a series of suspicious accidents, Jamie becomes haunted by fears that her dead daughter's vengeful spirit ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: ghost, reincarnation, supernatural, family relations, couples, family problems, custody, pregnancy, dealing with death, death of child, pregnancy and birth, blood ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Wishing Stairs (2003)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, dark drama, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, curses spells and rituals, obsession, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, forbidden love, asian girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Urban Ghost Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead, something latched on to ...
Style: independent film, serious, mind bending, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, haunted, supernatural horror, haunting, poltergeist, road accident, family problems, family relations, supernatural, journalism, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Grindstone Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Asylum (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style: independent film, mind bending, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, psychology, clinic, working undercover, murder, mental institution, hospital, cons and scams, power relations, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Sans rancune ! (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1955, un internat en Belgique. Laurent Matagne, 17 ans, croit discerner sous l'identité de son professeur de français surnommé "Vapeur", son père disparu lors d'un raid aérien pendant la guerre 40. Vapeur est excentrique, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, unusual plot structure, psychological
Plot: school, investigation, boarding school, boarding school life, minimal dialogue, orphan, tough guy, very little dialogue, river, teacher, shotgun, pregnancy test
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Presence of Mind (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, supernatural, ghost, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, evil child, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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A Blood Pledge (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, high school student, investigation, suicide, parasite, teenager, macabre, student, friendship, manipulation, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Soft for Digging (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A man wanders into the woods in search of his cat and witnesses a murder
Style: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, afterlife, danger, isolation, witness, ghost, haunted by the past, old man, elderly man, excavation, very little dialogue, forest ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Matrimony (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Style: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: ghost, true love, afterlife, murder, love triangle, supernatural, couples, woman in danger, love affair, family in danger, reincarnation, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.8
 778
Daddy's Girl (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: killer child, evil child, murder, psychopath, father, family relations, danger, childhood trauma, school, obsession, girl, youth ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Movie in collections
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House of Bad (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family relations, on the run, drug dealing, survival, starting over, supernatural power, murder, haunted house, woman peeing, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.2
 2K
Vampire (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
Style: scary, atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: vampire, murder, suicide, murder of a nude woman, danger, dangerous attraction, criminal heroes, fall in love, obsession, supernatural, violent content, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Turn of the Screw (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
Style: gothic, spiritual, costume drama, psychological horror, slasher ...
Plot: nanny, ghost, governess, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, american civil war, spirituality, haunting, possession, couples, family relations, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.1
 2K
Hurt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: orphan, ghost, rescue, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, murder, dark secret, uncover truth, american horror, child abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.6
 6K
Deadline (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, mind game, confined, writer's life, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Unleashed (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, ouija, terror, witch, imaginary, dream ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
When I Was Alive (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: haunted by the past, family relations, family problems, danger, parents and children, supernatural, losing-it hero, obsession, homecoming, mother, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.1
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The Nun (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of catholic school girls are victimized by a sadistic and jealous nun, "Sister Ursula". The girls drown the nun in a pool of "holy" water. Eighteen years later circumstances arise in which the nuns spirit is released to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, rough ...
Plot: ghost, evil nun, supernatural, ritual murder, boarding school, curses spells and rituals, curse, vengeance, religions or cults, haunted by the past, gory, danger ...
Place: barcelona, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Fear of the Dark (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Twelve year old Ryan Billings has been diagnosed with an acute fear of the dark. He spends each night lying awake in torment, waiting and watching as the evil in the darkness grows stronger, feeding off his fear. His older brother Dale, suspects ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: darkness, supernatural, danger, family relations, ghost, brother brother relationship, childhood, child, youth, old dark house, boy strangling, scared ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Echo (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: missing child, family problems, danger, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, single parent, ghost, mentally unstable, parents and children, child illness, child as adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Disappeared (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing person, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, teenage life, destiny, disappearance, brother, ghost, kidnapping, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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