Movies like Penny Dreadful 2005

If you like "Penny Dreadful" you are looking for scary, neo noir and suspense movies about / with haunted house, haunted, psychic, ghost, halloween, snow and suicide themes of Horror and Thriller genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Penny Dreadful (2005)
 5.8
 575
Penny Dreadful (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jessica and David Clausen are an upstart couple who come face to face with the Supernatural after inheriting a beautiful townhouse in New York City's West Village District.
Style: scary, neo noir, suspense
Plot: haunted house, haunted, psychic, ghost, halloween, snow, suicide, christmas eve, couples, mass murder, blood, supernatural power, premonition, respect, child murder, dark and stormy night, gore, exploding head, power outage
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city

Movie in categories

haunted movies
882
scary movies
7975
psychic movies
1024
ghost movies
4595
new york movies
4863
halloween movies
1272
snow movies
3262

Most similar movies to Penny Dreadful

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about ghost, haunted house, supernatural, haunted, danger, supernatural power and murder mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Penny Dreadful: Dark House (2009), The House Across the Street (2013), The Haunting of Hell House (1999), The Skeptic (2009), Ouija House (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 4.8
 2K
Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The House Across the Street (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amy has moved east from Kansas, determined to start a new life. She thinks she has found the perfect small quiet town, a great neighborhood on a quiet street. As she moves into her brand new apartment, eager to start a dream job, happy to befriend ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, new neighbor, new house, haunting, apparition, haunted house, ghost house, supernatural power, haunted, supernatural, supernatural horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Haunting of Hell House (1999)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, christian film
Plot: haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, haunting, danger, supernatural ability, afterlife, family in danger, abortion ...
Time: 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.6
 4K
The Skeptic (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doll, supernatural, danger, haunted, family problems, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Movie in collections
neo noir movies
3451
suspense movies
20963
suicide movies
5264
 3.0
 1K
Ouija House (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, psychotronic ...
Plot: ouija board, supernatural, ouija, macabre, ghost, spiritualism, fear, paranormal activity, supernatural power, seance, evil, board game ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.0
 12K
Apartment 143 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light ...
Style: scary, serious, bleak, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, family in danger, found footage, demonic possession, levitation, father daughter relationship, doctor, haunted, psychic, mental illness ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 3.2
 368
House of Bad (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family relations, on the run, drug dealing, survival, starting over, supernatural power, murder, haunted house, woman peeing, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Place in Hell (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by a real serial killer: A disgraced detective on the trail of a serial killer and a group of student filmmakers cross paths at a Halloween fright farm in the dead of winter.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: haunted house, serial killer, murder, masked killer, psychopath, paranormal, ghost, violent, paranormal phenomena, vengeance, brutality, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Movie in collections
 5.0
 51K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
House of Fears (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: halloween, supernatural, survival, confined, ghost, danger, teenage life, killer clown, supernatural power, clown, haunted house, half sister ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Final Destination 3 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself – which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
Style: scary, suspense, bloody, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, death, destiny, decapitation, fortune teller, roller coaster, characters killed one by one, psychic, foreknowledge, survival, youth, a vision ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.4
 1K
Delirium (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, suspense
Plot: found footage, ghost, massacre, teenage boy, investigation, supernatural, missing person, legend, danger, prank, party, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, haunted, haunting, ghost, evil child, governess, supernatural power, dead child, brother sister relationship, supernatural, children, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Halloween: Resurgence (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Five friends reunite in the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois for a Halloween Weekend full of fun. As the town still reels from it's haunted past, the friends travel to nearby Warren county to investigate the now closed Sanitarium where Dr. ...
Style: slasher, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school student, halloween, supernatural, revenge, fear, friends, escapades, murder, serial killer, violent, teenager, masked killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.6
 3K
The Evil (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Style: atmospheric, grindhouse, slasher, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, devil, supernatural, exploitation, haunted, demon, macabre, trapped in a building, erotica, 666, occult ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.7
 536
Restless Souls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, family relations, parent child relationship, research, supernatural power, couples, child murder, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
House of Purgatory (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: halloween, halloween party, supernatural, haunted house, purgatory, ghost, paranormal, chase, violence, peril, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
47%
Movie in collections
 4.5
 1K
Knife Edge (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, uncover truth, stalking, danger, mind game, gory, estate, haunted house, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.9
 449
Portal (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When an ambitious ghost hunter performs a risky ritual, opening a portal to "the other side", he and his team quickly find themselves way in over their heads in a fight for survival against an ancient demonic force.
Style: dark, bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot: ghost hunter, supernatural power, ritual, ghost story, haunted house, portal, ghost, ritual sacrifice, change of heart, danger, paranormal activity, obsession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Greystone Park (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, supernatural, mental institution, haunted house, uncover truth, danger, abandoned hospital, mental illness, ghost story, hospital, witch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 2.5
 875
Lizzie (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, nightmare, memory loss, haunted by the past, murder, haunted house, childhood trauma, unfulfillment, losing-it hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 2.6
 189
19 Doors (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a producer suggests that screenwriter Grace Mitchel pen a horror story set in an old hotel, the lond-abandoned Lyndora seems theperfect inspiration. The turn-of-the-century hotel is known for its rough and seedy past - the doors to its rooms ...
Style: enigmatic, bleak, scary, suspense
Plot: ghost, writers, psychic, abandoned hotel, possession, insanity, paranormal phenomena, murder, doll, mirror, literary agent, bum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Dead Room (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets ...
Style: scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: spirit, haunted house, mind game, fear, danger, brutality, supernatural, haunted, trapped, ghost, vengeance, farmhouse ...
Place: oceania, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Out of the Dark (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Style: scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family in danger, family relations, family problems, danger, couples, parents and children, legends and myths, summer, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Wraith (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Style: psychotronic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, scary
Plot: murder, death, ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, dead, torment, haunted house, supernatural horror, house
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, saga, splatter ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: haunted house, evil doll, supernatural, doll, supernatural horror, priest, ghost, child in peril, corpse, crucifix, exorcism, demon ...
Time: year 2019
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.4
 2K
Nightworld (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, Bulgaria, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Soon after delving into the building's sinister ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ghost, investigation, riddles and clues, fear, officer, mastermind, peril, haunted house, undead, haunted, lapd, resourceful ...
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, demonic ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, spirit, medium, haunted, psychic, father daughter relationship, supernatural horror, kidnapped girl, evil spirit, demon ...
Time: year 1953, year 2010, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie