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Spider Forest (2004)
 6.5
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Spider Forest (2004)
Original name: 거미숲
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is that two people died in Spider Forest. Detective CHOI, KANG Min's friend, finds a couple brutally murdered at a cottage in the forest, just like KANG Min described. As the couple found dead at the cottage are identified as CHOI Jong-phil, his senior from work, and HWANG Soo-young, his girlfriend, KANG Min becomes both a witness and key suspect in the investigation.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, mind bending, disturbing, mind blowing, erotic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot: forest, supernatural, murder, ghost, uncover truth, violent death, life is a bitch, danger, police investigation, haunted by the past, time travel, mistaken identity, offscreen killing, serial killer, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, schizophrenia, cyberpunk, psychology, mysticism, macabre, sex scene, puzzle, pagan, parallel universe ...
Time: contemporary
Place: south korea
Keyword: korean

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Most similar movies to Spider Forest

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, ghost and mind game mostly in Mystery, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Spider Forest: Face (2004), Sublime (2007), Marebito (2004), Jericho Mansions (2003), Retribution (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, supernatural, police investigation, danger, transplant, race against time, prostitute, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 7K
Sublime (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not ...
Style: suspense, rough, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: hospital, racism, doctors and patients, danger, psychology, destiny, fear, death, nurse, xmas, darkness, medical ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 6K
Marebito (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Style: disturbing, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, found footage, murder, obsession, danger, investigation, haunted by the past, gory, extreme, ghost, vampire, asian school ...
Time: year 2004
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jericho Mansions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, mind game, mysterious character, psychopath, memory loss, who done it, life is a bitch, protagonist as suspect, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.3
 3K
Retribution (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot: ghost, serial killer, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, supernatural power, supernatural, mysterious character, psychopath, who done it, rivalry, danger ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 4K
Three (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and ...
Style: anthology, psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: doll, uncover truth, supernatural, missing person, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, ghost, losing-it hero, curses spells and rituals, memory loss, husband wife relationship ...
Place: japan, china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 15K
The Canal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, haunted house, protagonist as suspect, husband wife relationship, xmas, tragedy, adultery ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, uncover truth, investigation, gory, who done it, police detective, mind game, mysterious character, experiment gone awry, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak, psychological horror ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, mental illness, supernatural romance, family in danger, uncover truth, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, war veteran ...
Place: middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 5K
Phone (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, journalism, phone terror, telephone call, evil spirit, haunted by the past, obsession, investigation, teenage life, danger, vengeance ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.7
 4K
Trauma (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, investigation, haunted by the past, psychopath, ghost, mysterious character, mind game, danger, starting over, supernatural ability, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The House at the End of Time (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Dulce, a mother who has encounters with apparitions inside her old house. She must decipher a mystery that could trigger a prophecy: the death of her family.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending, mystic ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, time travel, twists and turns, haunted house, ghost, murder, danger, family in danger, life is a bitch, elderly, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
 727
The Victim (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ting, an actress for murder illustration is hired to simulate a real-life murder case of Min, a former Miss Thailand who was brutally killed.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, supernatural power, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
White of the Eye (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, dangerous attraction, police investigation, woman in danger, mistaken identity, police detective, mind game, law enforcement, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
 288
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 ⇓
38%
 5.7
 992
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 21K
Nightwatch (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.6
 2K
Ghost Lake (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, scary, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, isolation, small town, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, mentally unstable, dealing with death, family in danger, small town life, resort ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
 139
Fissure (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Still reeling from a personal tragedy, Detective Paul Grunning is sent on a routine call to a local professor's home. When things turn deadly, he must navigate a fractured reality to solve the mystery before it's too late.
Style: psychological, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, uncover truth, mind game, danger, rivalry, riddles and clues, who done it, time travel, protagonist as suspect, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Chasing Sleep (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot: nightmare, insomnia, professor, police, uncover truth, obsession, murder, haunted by the past, hallucination, missing person, teacher, philosophy ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 5.8
 2K
The Sight (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying ...
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, architect, supernatural, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, mind game, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, youth, rivalry, haunted by the past, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 119K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 11K
The Broken (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style: mind bending, surreal, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, doppelganger, investigation, danger, haunted by the past, girlfriend, embassy, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
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: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 9K
Knight Moves (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A psychologist falls for a world-class chess player suspected of odd murders linked to his game.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, suspense ...
Plot: chess, serial killer, investigation, murder, police investigation, sex scene, revenge, serial murder, police, protagonist as suspect, psychopath, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 63K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, psychology, mental illness, twists and turns, lobotomy, macabre, ghost, insanity, transformation, hospital, obsession ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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