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Don't Look Up (2009)
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Japan, South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, terrifying
Plot:
curse, filmmaking, murder, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, terminal illness, gypsy, eye, supernatural power, film set, found footage, ghost, hollywood, medieval, disappearance, hallucination, rebirth, movie business, driven mad, mourning, mass hysteria, gory, artists and showbiz, extrasensory perception ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
transylvania, los angeles, romania, usa, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, deadly, murder and fear mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Don't Look Up: Dark Circles (2013), The Amityville Haunting (2011), The House of Seven Corpses (1973), Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983), The Ouija Experiment (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, mysterious death, danger, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, violence, ghost, paranormal activity, family in danger, supernatural, husband wife relationship, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, filmmaking, ghost, estate, danger, curses spells and rituals, house, trapped in a building, supernatural power, actor, old dark house ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Part two takes place in Hollywood, where survivor Lacey is staying with friends to recover from her trauma. Through long and extremely detailed flashbacks, Lacey tells the story about the murderous spirit in the little piece of mirror to befriended ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, scary ...
Plot:
mirror, flashback, broken mirror, boogeyman, trauma, filmmaking, hollywood, actress, director, actor, evil man, car ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai (Yanagi), is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on ...
Style:
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Plot:
ghost, supernatural, filmmaking, uncover truth, introspection, artists and showbiz, danger, obsession, haunted by the past, violent content, film set, actress ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While Suzaki Saika (Ashida Mana) is hospitalised for poor health, her father, Tamotsu (Totsugi Shigeyuki) feels torn that he has to leave here and go on a business trip. A portrait of Saika’s late mother is placed beside her bed. Her mother had ...
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
panic, apparition, poltergeist, ghost, paranormal activity, black magic, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dark secret, haunting, tragedy, haunted ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on true events, five friends who fall prey to the evil entities of the Ouija board. As they set about filming their experimental session, what starts out as bit of fun, soon escalates into a terrifying series of events as paranoia and personal ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
egypt, africa, usa, middle east, new york
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
tunnel, ghost, haunted house, uncover truth, mysterious character, haunted by the past, initiation, survival, afterlife, college, school, abandoned hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1932
Place:
kentucky, usa, louisville kentucky
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
ghost, hotel, found footage, supernatural, uncover truth, stalking, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, master and servant, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Style:
serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, investigation, haunted by the past, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, poltergeist, psychic, found footage ...
Time:
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Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
22%
782
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, danger, curses spells and rituals, satanic ritual, hotel, violence, darkness, black magic, found footage, violent content, religions or cults, stranger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
Style:
demonic, suspenseful, suspense, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, demonic possession, exorcism, supernatural horror, supernatural, exorcist, possessed girl, death, possession, police detective, mental institution, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, america, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, bleak, psychological
Plot:
gory, ghost, woman in danger, supernatural, danger, supernatural power, death, murder, rivalry, escapades, haunted house, blonde ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
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22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal, ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, killing, rescue, victim, supernatural ability, fear, deadly creature, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught ...
Style:
scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
191
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn't as easy as she hoped.
Style:
scary, disturbing, bleak, suspense
Plot:
curse, found footage, demon, vacation, hell, violence, peril, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, deadly creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
21%
239
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The wildly popular TV reality series, Ghost Chasers, is hitting its 4th year on the air; to commemorate this milestone, the members of the Ghost Chasers team have decided to broadcast their anniversary show out to the world live.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, killing, escapades, fear, murder, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, peril, hunting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A director and her friends renting a haunted house to capture paranormal events in order to prove it and become popular.
Style:
bleak, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, demon, possession, violence, fear, danger, murder, supernatural, peril, exorcism, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The encounters recorded by Chris Chambers have been studied by industry professionals and proven to be accurate recorded paranormal accounts. Currently documented as one of the most supernatural recorded events to date.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, cursed object, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, paranormal, ghost, supernatural power, haunted, demon, violence, pursuit, supernatural ability ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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419
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
ghost, danger, mental illness, supernatural ability, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, investigation, fear, phobia, missing person, murder, eye ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, found footage, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, killing, demon, vengeance, peril, paranormal investigation, rescue, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
evil spirit, curse, demonic possession, ghost, dark past, danger, supernatural, fear, exorcism, extreme, haunting, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
20%
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