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The Forest (2016)
48K
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, serious, atmospheric, dark, demonic, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, sisters, missing person, twists and turns, destiny, hallucination, forest, mental illness, haunted house, storytelling, blood, haunted, mind game, survival, twins, american abroad, travel, jungle, exorcism, paranormal, freak, possessed, darkness ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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Most similar movies to The Forest
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, blood, haunted house, haunted and danger mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Forest: Shutter (2004), Dead Silence (2007), The Possession (2012), Shutter (2008), Jessabelle (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
88%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, tense, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, supernatural horror, evil force, supernatural, family in danger, father daughter relationship, danger, demonic possession, possessed girl, ghost, parents and children, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, middle east, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
40K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style:
psychological, sexy, intense, road movie, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
spirit, ghost, rape and revenge, vigilante, photograph, supernatural, wedding, photographer, revenge, police investigation, photography, car accident ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york, asia, mount fuji ...
Similarity:
67%
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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, psychological, twist ending, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, voodoo, danger, ghost, psychology, spirit, macabre, disability, brutality, insanity, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2000, 2010s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Style:
spooky, religious horror, psychological, suspense, saga ...
Plot:
ghost, evil doll, supernatural horror, supernatural, doll, nun, demonic possession, haunted, orphan, evil spirit, demon, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 1955, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
100%
296K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
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:
67%
151K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
dark, creepy, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, macabre, child in peril, mental illness, darkness, brother sister relationship, haunted, depression, paranormal phenomena, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Similarity:
50%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style:
dark, psychological, spooky, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, demonic possession, grief, supernatural horror, afterlife, near death experience, depressed woman, bookstore, forest, depression, suicide of husband, widow ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, couples, family in danger, parents and children, family problems, family relations, danger, summer, meme, scared ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, colombia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Style:
psychological, spooky, scary, horrifying, slasher ...
Plot:
blindness, woman in danger, mysterious villain, suicide, who done it, twin sister, disability, murder, uncover truth, unsupportive parent, blind character, delusion ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, demonic, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, on the road, danger, escapades, twists and turns, estate, gladiator, survival, demon, freak, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house ...
Style:
scary, suspense, serious, rough, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage girl, nightmare, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, haunted house, possession, found footage, ghost, danger, investigation, cursed, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1974, year 1965, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
26K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in ...
Style:
atmospheric, demonic, suspenseful, spooky, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, ghost, hidden room, death of mother, haunted by the past, haunting, serial killer, terror, christmas, blood, slow burn ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
Style:
psychological, anthology, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, losing-it hero, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, illness, psychological trauma, danger, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, doll ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, brutality, evil spirit, isolation, blood, spirit, supernatural horror, haunted, revenge, dark secret, cursed ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
29K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, leads a team of psychics into the decrepit mansion known as Rose Red. Her efforts unleash the spirit of former owner Ellen Rimbauer and uncover the horrifying secrets of those who lived and died there.
Style:
creepy, atmospheric, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, stephen king, supernatural, mansion, psychic, haunted, afterlife, psychic power, telekinesis, paranormal phenomena, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, year 1991, 1910s, 1900s ...
Place:
seattle, africa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become ...
Style:
scary, serious, intense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, monster, archaeologist, creature, archaeology, pyramid, archeological dig, characters killed one by one, tomb, desert, death ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then ...
Style:
scary, dark, demonic, spooky, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, ghost, demon, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, supernatural, psychic, terror, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, paranormal activity ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
usa, connecticut, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, gothic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, paranormal investigation, mental institution, claustrophobia, paranormal investigator, maze, abandoned hospital, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
15K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, terrifying ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, nightmare, monster, evil wins, childhood trauma, demon, suicide, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, abduction, alternate dimension, supernatural power ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, stylized, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
possession, seance, paranormal phenomena, cameraman, found footage, skepticism, poltergeist, doll, experiment, professor, mad doctor, supernatural ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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