Movies like Ghastly

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Ghastly (2011)
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Ghastly (2011)
Original name: 기생령
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Desperately wanting a child, Ga-hee receives help from an exorcist and kidnaps and seals a child in a jar. After she gives birth to her son Bin, Ga-hee is brutally murdered. Along with her husband Jang-hwan and her sister Yoo-rin, Sunny moves into her nephew Bin’s house to look after him. Although empathetic towards her orphan nephew, Bin’s strange behaviors give Sunny mysterious chills, and the nightmares that start haunting Sunny since moving into Bin’s house become unbearable. Sunny gets the hunch that there is something between Bin’s increasingly violent behaviors and this house with an ominous aura.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sinister, tension, surprise ending
Plot: curse, exorcism, evil spirit, murder, haunted house, paranormal phenomena, missing person, violence, deception, nightmare, dark secret, terror, paranormal investigation, asian school, asian prostitute, serial killer, ghost, revenge, murderer, psychopath, shaman, spirit, orphan, massacre, evil ...

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Most similar movies to Ghastly

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and psychotronic films with plots about murder, ghost, violence, evil, death, paranormal phenomena and supernatural mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Ghastly: Don't Click (2012), Feng Shui 2 (2014), Yoga (2009), Apparition of Evil (2014), Midnight Hair (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Don't Click (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A horror movie about the mysterious happenings that happen to a pair of sisters after watching an unidentified video. Directed by Kim Tae-kyeong, Park Bo-yeong plays Se-hee who tries to save her sister Jeong-mi, her boyfriend Joo Won and Kang Byeol ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: terror, curse, ghost, surrealism, paranormal phenomena, mysterious death, death, fear, murder, evil, survival, danger ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.2
 218
Feng Shui 2 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, sinister
Plot: murder, female ghost, mystery woman, murder of friend, suicide, revenge, ghost, blood, death, friendship, massacre, family relations ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.6
 658
Yoga (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Once taken her job because of her appearance, a confident and enthusiastic woman, Hyo-jung visits a mysterious yoga institute run by an ex-actress where her radically changed friend told her to go. At the intensive training course, a young yoga ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, tension ...
Plot: yoga, dark secret, curse, ghost, evil spirit, ritual, mystery woman, rivalry, surrealism, murder, fear, demonic possession ...
Time: year 1978
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Apparition of Evil (2014)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Chilling paranormal portmanteau following a researcher who stumbles across a collection of disturbing video evidence she has obtained from a mysterious source including a location recce made by two young filmmakers, Cain and Dion, who venture to the ...
Style: anthology, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, paranormal phenomena, ghost, curse, investigation, evidence, possession, witchcraft, sacrifice, evil spirit, evil force, danger ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Midnight Hair (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Midnight Hair follows a young couple as they move to a mountain villa, where bizarre hauntings terrorize them day and night... While trying to find out the source of these paranormal activites, they discover that a dirty secret from their past is ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, husband wife relationship, murder, split personality, orphanage, nightmare, orphan, supernatural, spirit, evil, death, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
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, tense, psychological, mockbuster, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, danger, curse, estate, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, nightmare comes true, murder, haunted, haunting, phantom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 2.8
 373
Anomaly (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a family that experienced the biggest demonic possession after moving into a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: demonic possession, nightmare, paranormal phenomena, peril, supernatural power, haunted house, demon, supernatural, fear, revenge, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: tree, murder, evil spirit, curse, demon, paranormal phenomena, urban legend, legend, paranormal investigation, demonic possession, danger, seance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Alone (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jonathan MacKinlay is a man trapped inside his home by his own mind. Suffering from agoraphobia, caused by a car accident that took his wife's life; his existence has been reduced to a monotonous repetition of identical days. As his dread and ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, rescue, death, peril, victim, youth, paranormal phenomena, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, ghost, deadly creature, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 804
Hollow Creek (2016)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the ...
Style: tense, bleak, scary, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: writers, missing person, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, characters in danger, heroes, escapades, deadly creature, killings, supernatural, mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 3.7
 902
The Unfolding (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is 2016 and a fearful world seems to be on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. A researcher in psychical events and his girlfriend travel to deepest Dartmoor to investigate a centuries-old building. What they unlock and discover is way more than ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: found footage, paranormal, haunted house, violence, peril, paranormal phenomena, demon, chase, murder, revenge, death, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
White: The Melody of the Curse (2011)
Genre: Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Pop band Pink Dolls emerges to stardom after releasing a remake of “White,” written by an anonymous composer. The more popular the members become, however, the more they become torn by jealousy and rivalries. But as the girls each take turns to ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, curse, showbiz, music band, music, celebrity culture, rising to stardom, danger, ambition, woman in danger, mysterious death, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.2
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Dark Awakening (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the heels of a devastating courtroom defeat, James moves his wife and son back to his hometown to begin a new life. From the very first day in their new home, the family experiences strange paranormal events. They seek help from a priest, who ...
Style: scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, paranormal, ghost child, child, ghost girl, exorcism, paranormal investigation, supernatural ability, supernatural power, evil, spirit, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in ...
Style: mockumentary, dark, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, murder, investigation, violence, haunted house, darkness, blood, fear, death, research, corpse ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Banshee Blacktop, an Irish Ghost Story (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, curse, monk, supernatural power, supernatural, tragic event, ghost, police detective, peril, supernatural ability, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, captivating ...
Plot: witchcraft, paranormal phenomena, devil, exorcism, demon, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, supernatural, peril, vengeance, paranormal, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.7
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Haunted (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Set in the beautiful winter landscape of Norway, Haunted follows Catherine as she travels back to her old family estate after her father's death. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, enigmatic
Plot: curse, fear, ghost, phobia, danger, paranormal, haunted house, peril, violence, paranormal phenomena, chase, evil ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, prostitute, curse, brothel, haunted house, hooker, poltergeist, evil spirit, danger, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Maid (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, plot twist, revenge, ghost story, danger, master and servant, woman in danger, mysterious past, vengeful ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 35
Revived (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: After trespassing at an abandoned house a pair of friends become increasingly tormented by a restless spirit.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, bleak, disturbing
Plot: paranormal activity, ghost, found footage, devil, demon, poltergeist, spirit, supernatural power, curse, paranormal phenomena, vengeance, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bayou Horror Story (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A paranormal investigator travels to the South to research a series of deaths connected to a supernatural curse haunting an old Louisiana family.
Style: suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: paranormal, found footage, murder, supernatural, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, death, occult, haunted house, violence, exorcism, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
We Are Still Here (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her ...
Style: dark, atmospheric, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, brutality, isolation, blood, spirit, haunted, revenge, dark secret, supernatural horror, snow ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Case No. 666/2013 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three buddies Bhaskar, Chaitanya and Durga along with a stranger, venture into a forest and stay in a haunted guest house. They carry two cameras through which they start recording interesting and mysterious happenings. As the mystery unfolds, the ...
Style: surprise ending, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, thrill ride, haunted house, three friends, forest, missing person, multiple storylines, supernatural, supernatural power, chase, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Last Exorcist (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After every priest trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack, Joan Campbell must battle a demon from her past that, this time, possesses her sister.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot: exorcism, possession, sister sister relationship, obsession, demon, supernatural, violence, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, priest, murder, paranormal activity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, woman, haunted house, killings, deadly creature, heroes, characters in danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, murder, violence, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Haunting in Salem (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, witchcraft, small town, murder, witch, pursuit, sheriff, drowning, relocation, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.4
 2K
Munger Road (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police investigation, supernatural, found footage, law enforcement, urban legend, twists and turns, danger, ghost hunter, missing person, small town, redneck, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Chosen: Forbidden Cave (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jin-Myung is a psychiatrist and exorcist. With his assistant, Ji-Kwang, they attempt an exorcism on Geum-Joo. She suffers from a bizarre phenomenon. They then face a powerful existence within Geum-Joo. Extreme horror arises out of her.
Style: dark, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: exorcism, paranormal phenomena, exorcist, demonic possession, psychiatrist, cave, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, demon, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, jeju island
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Guimoon: The Lightless Door (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1990, at a secluded community center, the custodian murders all the guest lodgers and kills himself. Ever since, on every Old Year's Night, paranormal events begin to take place within the building. Eventually, the center is shut down and ...
Style: psychotronic, bleak, suspense, scary, suspenseful
Plot: ghost, crime scene, spirit, ghost story, ritual, child abuse, suicide, exorcism, murder, murder victim, shaman, abandoned building ...
Time: year 1996, year 2002, 2000s, 90s, year 1998 ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
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Shockwave (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Just as Wes thought his summer couldn't get any worse it got terrifying when he wakes up one morning to find a bloody mess with a letter to add the cherry on top to a confusing puzzle that leads to a gruesome trail of shock and horror.
Style: slasher, suspense, surprise ending, scary, bleak ...
Plot: murder, fear, murderer, violence, psycho killer, terror, serial murder, darkness, chase, ghost, villain, shock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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