Movies like House of Usher 2008
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House of Usher (2008)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.
Style:
gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic
Plot:
gay, haunted house, estate, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, murder, secret, edgar allan poe, male nudity, man in underwear, erotica, motorcycle, death, photographer, illness, house, bisexual, homosexual, capture, homosexuality, picture, gargoyle, photograph ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to House of Usher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, deadly, curses spells and rituals, murder and gory mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like House of Usher: The Tomb (2009), The Pit and the Pendulum (2009), Conjurer (2008), Dark House (2009), The Occupants (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.
Style:
gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ghost, losing-it hero, terminal illness, obsessive quest, supernatural, couples, power relations, estate, danger, obsession, femme fatale, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
black sea, moscow russia, ukraine, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination ...
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, erotic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
hypnotist, gay, experiment gone awry, college, disorder, supernatural, gory, student life, mad scientist, confined, danger, experiment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, mind bending
Plot:
curse, ghost, supernatural, haunted, haunted house, danger, family problems, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, orphan, gory, spirit ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, androids and robots, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A supernatural thriller directed by Todd Alcott who co-wrote the script with Holly Golden, and features Michael Rady and Toby Huss. Golden produced the film along with Ilan Arboleda. The film revolves around Lucy, who has a new husband, a new home ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, danger, woman in danger, killing, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, supernatural power, death, revenge, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
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:
haunted house, ghost, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, zombie, stalking, family problems, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
Style:
serious, mockbuster, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunting, curse, danger, estate, nightmare comes true, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted, house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, missing person, uncover truth, edgar allan poe, danger, supernatural, family secret, family curse, secret, twins, curse, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Six high school students, WILL, CHARLIE, BARTOK, TODD, STEVIE and LINDA, are handed invitations to a party by the school’s mysterious and enigmatic new student, SADDLER. However, once they enter Saddler’s house, they are each somehow magically ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, homoerotic ...
Plot:
supernatural, high school student, haunted house, witch, supernatural ability, danger, youth, confined, teenage life, estate, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Style:
suspense, slasher, atmospheric, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunted, devil, supernatural, exploitation, demon, quicksand, german shepherd, crucifix, curse, immolation ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, mental institution, uncover truth, danger, mental illness, hospital, ghost story, psychiatric hospital, witch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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:
36%
797
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
ouija board, halloween, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, spirit, curses spells and rituals, danger, buddies, island, ouija, death ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious ...
Style:
scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, insanity, gory, danger, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, school, serial killer, youth, buried alive, ant, eye ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
Style:
homoerotic, erotic, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, imaginary, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, rivalry, good versus evil, supernatural ability, escapades, danger, youth, high school ...
Time:
middle ages, 21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with ...
Style:
serious, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
family gatherings, haunted by the past, family relations, escapades, survival, supernatural, danger, gory, estate, curses spells and rituals, murder, black ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassidy is a senior at a NYC college and he's trying to balance the demands of school, his role as big brother to Jessica, a freshman at the same school and his role as best buddy to horn-dog Mike with his emerging feelings of attraction to ...
Style:
serious, slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, serial killer, gay, college, murder, gay athlete, psychopath, couples, survival, youth, supernatural, student life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game "Bloody Mary." Amy had stumbled onto a website on the Internet (www.marked4mary.com) about a witch called Bloody Mary ...
Style:
suspense, scary, slasher, serious
Plot:
college, supernatural, afterlife, ghost, priest, monster, gory, curses spells and rituals, danger, mentally unstable, clergy, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
seance, morgue, ouija board, ghost, danger, supernatural, human host, friendship, ouija, demonic possession, death, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher
Plot:
gory, ghost, supernatural, psychopath, danger, murder, haunted by the past, small town life, dark and stormy night, game, stalking, sexual murder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After playing a pagan ritual on a dare, a group of high school students find themselves trapped in an endless cycle of their worst fears.
Style:
scary, rough, semi serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, witchcraft, danger, curses spells and rituals, escapades, teenage life, ouija, hallucination, demon, groundhog day, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
ouija board, ouija, supernatural, macabre, fear, ghost, supernatural power, seance, spiritualism, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, board game ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, uncover truth, mind game, stalking, danger, gory, estate, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
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520
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father ...
Style:
serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
family in crisis, missing person, parents and children, danger, homecoming, family problems, family life, supernatural, mental illness, friendship, death in the family, captivity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between ...
Style:
sexy, scary, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, ghost, haunted house, uncover truth, mysterious character, captivity, teenage life, family in danger, isolation, confined, danger ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Renowned "ghost hunter", Carter Simms is paid to conduct a paranormal investigation of a supposedly haunted house. Along with a cameraman, a reporter, and a spiritual advocate, she embarks on a three night journey into terror.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, found footage, afterlife, ghost hunter, supernatural horror, murder, investigation, uncover truth, supernatural, danger, journalism, haunted by the past ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
33%
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, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, on the run, survival, starting over, drug dealing, supernatural power, murder, woman peeing, woman urinating ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, cemetery, black cat, supernatural, monster, cat, nobility, folk horror, ghost, macabre, obsession, stonehenge ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, victorian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, serious ...
Plot:
urban legend, violence, ghost, missing person, curses spells and rituals, gory, myth, blood, hospital, revenge, afterlife, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
579
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore (Jillian Swanson) finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer ...
Style:
slasher, realistic, serious, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, danger, music band, murder, supernatural ability, woman in danger, haunted by the past, rivalry, afterlife, good versus evil, supernatural ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
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