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Wishing Stairs (2003)
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Wishing Stairs (2003)
Original name: 여고괴담 3: 여우계단
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, suspense, dark drama
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, obsession, curses spells and rituals, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, post apocalypse, lgbt, macabre, forbidden love, parasite, gays and lesbians, nightmare, supernatural horror, asian girl, haunting, asian lgbt, school, art class, desire, private school ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, deadly, youth, curses spells and rituals and murder mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Wishing Stairs: Whispering Corridors (1998), The Moth Diaries (2011), A Blood Pledge (2009), Voice (2005), Sorum (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Whispering Corridors (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher Mrs. Park startles and calls the young teacher Eun-young Hur, telling her that the deceased Jin-ju Jang is back. The line dies and Mrs. Park is attacked and killed by a ghost. On the next ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, friendship, high school, bullying, supernatural, paranormal, supernatural ability, who done it, haunting, dark past, maniac, sadism ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, asia, south korea
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The Moth Diaries (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Style: gothic, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, horrifying ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, boarding school, supernatural, obsession, friends, mysterious character, social relations, youth, danger, haunted by the past, newcomer, roommate ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: canada
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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
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55%
 6.2
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Voice (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, queer horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: ghost, friendship, haunted by the past, youth, investigation, danger, supernatural, hearing voices, elevator, macabre, parasite, darkness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Sorum (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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Scary Hair (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Chi-Hyon takes home her young sister, Su Hyon, a terminal cancer patient, so that she can help her enjoy her remaining time on earth, she buys her a wig to mask the effects of chemotherapy -- not realizing that the wig is, in fact, demonic. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, curse, danger, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, terminal illness, teenage life, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Memento Mori (1999)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-Eun and Min Hyo-Shin. As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with ...
Style: queer horror, dark, thought provoking, psychological thriller, dark drama ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, telepathy, gays and lesbians, youth, extreme, lesbian relationship, nightmare, evil child, haunting, parasite, entertainment ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, south korea
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48%
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The Heirloom (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, inheritance, haunted by the past, supernatural, family problems, family relations, danger, curses spells and rituals, estate, domestic disturbance, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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
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Epitaph (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Jung Nam finds a photo album dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. This triggers memories of his life. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-Nam's arranged marriage ended when his fiancée, whom he had never met, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, mind twisting, mind bending ...
Plot: hospital, supernatural, ghost, intern, fall in love, love and romance, serial killer, twists and turns, post apocalypse, lgbt, wedding, japanese occupation of korea ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: seoul, asia, korea
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Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: curse, ghost, vengeance, danger, rivalry, youth, supernatural, village, curses spells and rituals, mute or deaf, ouija, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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Face (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Savage Harvest 2: October Blood (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tyge Murdock, a successful director of low-budget horror films, has been chasing monsters his whole life. When an actor is accidentally killed on the set of his latest production, Tyge returns to his hometown to reassess his life. But all new ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
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Plot: ghost, supernatural, spirit, woman in danger, curse, curses spells and rituals, survival, workplace, boss and employee, nightmare, obnoxious boss, danger ...
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American Conjuring (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 86 min.
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
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.
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The Echo (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and passed away. He finds a job as mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, twisted ...
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Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Country: Thailand
Duration: 122 min.
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
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Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, spooky ...
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Haunted Forest (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
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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, ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious, mind bending
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Time: 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
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40%
The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get ...
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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
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Ghost Train (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, train, missing person, supernatural, friendship, danger, gory, past, violence, subway, post apocalypse, train wreck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 90s
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40%
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The Ghost (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost. Min Ji-Won (Kim Ha-Neul) suffers from amnesia caused by an accident almost a year ago. After ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, mind twisting, bleak ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Entity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
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39%
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