Movies like Sadako vs. Kayako

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Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
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Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Original name: 貞子vs伽椰子
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspense, dark, disturbing, stylized, controversial, dark fantasy
Audience: adult
Plot: curse, ghost, bullying, murder, crossover, exorcism, hallucination, professor, haunting, college, sacrifice, urban legend, pursuit, supernatural, darkness, extreme, haunted house, fight, suicide, tarot card, telephone call, self sacrifice, female protagonist, high school, japanese schoolgirl ...
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, curse, murder, deadly and haunted house mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sadako vs. Kayako: Ju-on: White Ghost (2009), Teke Teke (2009), Ju-on: The Curse (2000), Ju-on: The Grudge (2002), Ring (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ju-on: White Ghost (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Akane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child.
Style: suspense, spooky
Plot: curse, haunted house, asian school, new year's eve, post apocalypse, extreme, cat, schoolgirl, vengeful ghost, murder of a family, female ghost, old lady ...
Place: japan
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Teke Teke (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: urban legend, evil spirit, high school student, mythical creature, paranormal investigation, ghost, struggle for survival, danger, murder, teenager, violence, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Style: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark ...
Plot: curse, haunted house, supernatural, murder, afterlife, fear, brutality, grudge, investigation, danger, missing child, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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100%
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, afterlife, social worker, panic, haunted by the past, family problems, woman in danger, investigation, haunted, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ring (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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100%
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The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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100%
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The Grudge (2004)
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: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
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100%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
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100%
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Style: scary, suspense, spooky, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, monster, extreme, grudge, curse, family problems, family relations, supernatural, supernatural ability ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan
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Ju-on: Black Ghost (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A Nurse named Yuko (Ai Kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge ...
Style: suspense, spooky
Plot: ghost, grudge, curse, ghost story, female ghost, twins, asian school, extreme, haunted house, dream, ghost child, ghost girl ...
Place: japan
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
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: psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot: haunted house, curse, evil spirit, paranormal investigation, demonic possession, ghost, dark past, danger, paranormal activity, exorcism, supernatural, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, suicide, uncover truth, losing-it hero, investigation, danger, grudge, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01 - Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)
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, bleak, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, found footage, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, rescue, exorcism, chase, death, peril, violence, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Cult (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so ...
Style: bleak, scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, demon, supernatural, exorcism, paranormal, shaman, paranormal phenomena, ghost, violence, evil, pursuit, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, heroes, danger, ghost, school, computers and web, teenage life, woman in danger, cons and scams, supernatural power, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki ...
Style: psychotronic, bleak, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, family curse, haunted house, hunting, loss, chase, exorcism, vengeance, paranormal investigation, family relations, good versus evil, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Ring (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Korean adaption of the novel 'Ringu'. A journalist investigates the mysterious death of her niece and discovers that she and her friends have all died under mysterious circumstance.
Style: suspenseful, manga, slasher, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: reporter, post apocalypse, urban legend, curse, videotaping, strong female presence, supernatural, life is a bitch, race against time, uncover truth, danger, investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea
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36%
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Tormented (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
Style: tense, disturbing, psychological, scary, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rabbit, curse, family relations, danger, parents and children, uncover truth, relocation, death, pursuit, little boy, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Beyond Remedy (2009)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.
Style: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, fear, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, danger, pursuit, demonic possession, ghost, nightmare, macabre, demon ...
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35%
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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 ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
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Cursed (2004)
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.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, spirit, woman in danger, curse, curses spells and rituals, survival, workplace, boss and employee, nightmare, obnoxious boss, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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34%
Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, danger, mental illness, twists and turns, curses spells and rituals, a vision, gory ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: japan, asia
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34%
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Not Alone (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin on the East Coast. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, nightmare, murder, paranormal, woman in danger, supernatural, danger, brutality, violence, supernatural power, vengeful ghost, creature ...
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Grave Halloween (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: forest, suicide, uncover truth, curse, vengeance, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, gory, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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33%
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Teke Teke 2 (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: urban legend, ghost, schoolgirl, manhunt, sadistic horror, supernatural horror, body horror, female ghost, vengeful ghost, extreme, rape, school bully ...
Place: japan
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33%
Blood Curse II: Asmodeus Rises (2024)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Story: Alicia Stone returns in this gore-drenched sequel. Having lost all hope, husband Jason calls on the help of Paranormal TV host Tyson to confront the demonic forces that have plagued the Stone household.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: death, revenge, demon, violence, blood, poltergeist, haunted house, curse, evil doll, woman in danger, deadly creature, paranormal ...
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, demonic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, witch, ghost, supernatural, evil wins, evil, supernatural horror, macabre, curses spells and rituals, dark humor, exorcism, witchcraft ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: los angeles, pasadena california
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33%
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Behind You (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
Style: scary, bleak, suspense, rough, dark ...
Plot: supernatural horror, mirror, ghost, supernatural, demon, curse, escape attempt, sister sister relationship, broken mirror, macabre, murder, a vision ...
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Vampire Clay (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: demon, art school, deadly creature, murder, peril, supernatural, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, chase, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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