Movies like The Wicker Tree

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The Wicker Tree (2011)
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The Wicker Tree (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Director Robin Hardy's reimagining of his eerie 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
Plot: folk horror, danger, couple relations, religions or cults, supernatural, society, secret place, curses spells and rituals, witch, religion, doll, occult, pagan, ritual, community, commune, puppet, dark secret, nude women, female nudity, sex scene, supernatural horror, cannibalism, sacrifice, village ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century, contemporary
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
Keyword: british horror

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Most similar movies to The Wicker Tree

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, deadly, occult and witch mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Wicker Tree: Wake Wood (2009), Crowhaven Farm (1970), Outcast (2010), The Scar Crow (2009), Evil Heritage (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wake Wood (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, satanic ...
Plot: supernatural, folk horror, grief, ritual, danger, dealing with death, pagan, occult, haunted by the past, isolation, spouse in danger, small town ...
Place: ireland
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100%
Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
Style: suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, coven, macabre, darkness, paranormal, torture, small town, sacrifice, reincarnation, troubled marriage ...
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100%
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Outcast (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It tells the tale of Petronella (a Scottish/Romany girl) and Fergal (her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend). As their doomed relationship plays out, a Beast stalks the estate, killing locals, working its way towards our protagonists. Meanwhile ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, suspense
Plot: beast, werewolf, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, witch, deadly creature, fall in love, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, good versus evil, teenage love, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scotland, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Scar Crow (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The three Tanner sisters live in fear after their mother is hanged for witchcraft, in her absence their father takes advantage of his daughters leaving the family somewhere between life and death cursed for an eternity.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: reincarnation, supernatural, scarecrow, danger, family problems, murder, gory, curses spells and rituals, violence spree, countryside, father daughter incest, witchcraft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Evil Heritage (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her.
Style: grindhouse, demonic, satanic, independent film, serious ...
Plot: occult, zombie, devil, witchcraft, folk horror, coven, witch, ghost, black magic, satanist, exploitation, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend ...
Style: lovecraft, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious ...
Plot: witchcraft, supernatural, virgin, sacrifice, folk horror, reincarnation, vengeance, femme fatale, danger, curses spells and rituals, occult, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.3
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Jug Face (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, human sacrifice, religions or cults, misogyny, isolated community, arranged marriage, pregnancy, society, deal with the devil, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Witches (1966)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly ...
Style: gothic horror, satanic, gothic, grindhouse, slasher ...
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, supernatural, occult, hagsploitation, black magic, magic, conspiracy, exploitation, 666, voodoo ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: africa, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Satan's School for Girls (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot: witch, college, amateur detective, loss of sister, supernatural, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, danger, death in the family, death of sister, witchcraft ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Style: satanic, scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: occult, ritual, satanism, afterlife, satanist, deal with the devil, demon, ghost, satanic cult, curses spells and rituals, danger, witch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Virgin Witch (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Christine gets her big chance at modelling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a castle for the weekend for a photo shoot. Sybil has lured Christine to the castle for more than ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, satanic ...
Plot: witch, witchcraft, occult, lesbian incest, supernatural, coven, fashion, countryside, model, curses spells and rituals, danger, bare breasts ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, vampire, supernatural, stalking, transformation, trial, lycanthropy, mind game, dangerous attraction, dangerous animal, legends and myths ...
Time: 1850s
Place: spain
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36%
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Feng shui (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, superstition, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, horoscope, buddha, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Possessed (2000)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its own when he is around, and he doesn't remember any of it. After giving up on the protestants, ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: exorcism, demon, supernatural, demonic possession, family relations, parents and children, clergy, priest, church, curses spells and rituals, uncover truth, boy ...
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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36%
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Boogeyman (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff (McClintock).
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, scary ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, violence spree, siblings relations, religions or cults, rivalry, single parent, boogeyman, deadly
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the ...
Style: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Plot: occult, black magic, supernatural, coven, folk horror, satanism, witch, zombie, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1968, year 1929
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Antichrist (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, classic horror ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, reincarnation, faith, past, danger, paralysis, possession, ghost, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, disability ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, inquisition, torture, rape, murder, witch hunt, vengeance, burned alive, violence, exploitation, macabre ...
Time: 17th century, year 1968
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Tattooist (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore
Duration: 92 min.
Story: American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: mysticism, tattoo, tattoo artist, ghost, supernatural, danger, shame, tradition, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, curse, decadence ...
Place: new zealand, singapore
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36%
Under the Bed (2012)
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Viy (1967)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, witchcraft, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, danger, escapades, evil dead, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: medieval times, year 1967, middle ages
Place: ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
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Haunted (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, murder, haunting, supernatural, betrayal, nanny, uncover truth, family relations, haunted by the past, siblings relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, stylized, suspense ...
Plot: black magic, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, occult, dark secret, good versus evil, torture, witchcraft, chaos, vengeance, witch, danger ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting ...
Style: classic horror, grindhouse, satanic, gothic, scary ...
Plot: witchcraft, witch, folk horror, occult, tudors, murder, edgar allan poe, revenge, massacre, torture, rape, virus ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century
Place: england, europe
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35%
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Dracula (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, terminal illness, chaos, couples, danger, supernatural ability, escapades, couple relations, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: england, europe, transylvania, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Devil's Business (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Two hit men are sent to murder an old associate of their underworld boss. Middle-aged Pinner is the been-there-done-that cynical veteran, while his new inexperienced partner Cully is about as green as they come. Waiting for their mark to return ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: occult, hitman, black magic, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, murder, contract killing, death, haunted, haunted house, hoodie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.6
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Mr. Jones (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. He and his girlfriend Penny (Sarah Jones) move into a desolate house hoping to make a breakthrough. Then they discover their neighbor, the elusive Mr. Jones. Famous for his haunting ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, surreal, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, privacy invasion, couples, danger, isolation, nightmare comes true, couple relations, wilderness, house, pagan, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Daisy Chain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: evil child, supernatural, orphan, couples, family in danger, adoption, starting over, mentally challenged, danger, couple relations, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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