Movies like Wait Till Helen Comes

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Wait Till Helen Comes (2016)
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Wait Till Helen Comes (2016)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, disturbing, contemplative, horrifying
Plot: teenage girl, ghost, half sister, church, writers, family relations, missing child, mother daughter relationship, dead father, stepsister stepsister relationship, chase, escapades, danger, girl, supernatural, youth, fire, sister, butterfly, haunting, teenager, doll, swing, dream, bank ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: baltimore

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and tense films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, fear, murder, deadly and youth mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Wait Till Helen Comes: Evangeline (2013), The Watcher in the Woods (1980), The Dark (2005), Halloween: Resurgence (2012), Mama (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Evangeline (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: teenage girl, college, ghost, demon, evil spirit, paranormal, rescue, death, supernatural ability, supernatural power, fear, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Genre: Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot: supernatural, solar eclipse, ghost, danger, missing person, children, halloween, secrets, family relations, past, occult, teenage girl ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: england
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52%
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The Dark (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mind game, mysterious character, afterlife, sect ...
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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 6.2
 190K
Mama (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that ...
Style: scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, children, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, macabre, adoption, danger, revenge, redemption ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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51%
 3.7
 3K
The Remains (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a family moves into an old Victorian home, they discover a chest in the attic containing antiques tainted by a malevolent spirit. As the antiques slowly possess each family member, the spirit grows stronger, hellbent on kidnapping the children.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: ghost, widower, danger, doll, attic, house, haunted house, missing girl, dark secret, supernatural, youth, killer child ...
Time: 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
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Haunter (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, time loop, afterlife, haunted house, supernatural, rescue, trapped, youth, murder, coming of age, uncover truth, house ...
Time: 2010s, year 1983, year 1985, year 1953, 80s ...
Place: usa, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.8
 399
Day 13 (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Colton is left at home to babysit his little sister for the summer, he develops a crush on Heather, the beautiful girl who just moved into a mysterious old house across the street. He falls in love with her from afar — but also ...
Style: bleak, psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: danger, paranormal phenomena, ghost, violence, vengeance, paranormal, supernatural power, peril, deadly creature, evil, family in danger, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 2K
Seance (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house and her ghost ...
Style: tense, bleak, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: ghost, kidnapping, supernatural, supernatural ability, family problems, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, danger, missing child, police investigation, haunting, ouija ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 480
Jessie (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in an abandoned house, the film follows a team of professional ghost hunters trying to conduct a paranormal investigation to unveil the mystery of two sisters, Jessie and Amy, where Amy shows unusual mental and physical behaviour.
Style: bleak, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, ghost hunter, ghost, violence, paranormal investigation, deadly creature, escapades, friends, curses spells and rituals, paranormal, youth, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.5
 2K
The Chosen (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, demon, saving a life, violence, death, meme, child in peril, girl, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, found footage, ghost, haunted house, danger, investigation, nightmare, possession, brother sister relationship, murder ...
Time: year 2017, year 1965, year 1974, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted, parents and children, child in peril, danger, family relations, supernatural horror, survival horror, evil spirit, supernatural being, paranormal ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.9
 847
True Fiction (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: family in danger, evil, isolation, psychopath, ghost, insanity, supernatural, nightmare, fear, survival, writer's block, paranoia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 24K
The Hole (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, stylized, scary ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: basement, good versus evil, little brother, youth, danger, supernatural, nightmare comes true, small town, young heroes, coming of age, escapades, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Changeover (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laura Chant. 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and ...
Style: rough, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: suburbs, brother sister relationship, supernatural ability, danger, life is a bitch, life, sister, brother, spirit, siblings, woman, little brother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.9
 2K
A.M.I. (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A seventeen year old girl forms a co-dependent relationship with an artificial intelligence on her phone and goes on a murderous rampage.
Style: suspense, futuristic, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, boyfriend, vengeance, murder, mother daughter relationship, female warrior, revenge, violence, girl, family relations, psychopath, young woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.9
 61K
Poltergeist (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, ...
Style: scary, psychological, intense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, poltergeist, macabre, supernatural horror, paranormal, haunted house, family relations, brutality, monster, paranormal phenomena, child in peril ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Pet Sematary (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At ...
Style: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: zombie, macabre, stephen king, supernatural horror, indian burial ground, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, family in danger, murder, supernatural, gory ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, chicago, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Nightmare in Psycho Town (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Three teens are forced to spend the night at the house on Hollow Road. They eventually learn that each one of them has been having recurring nightmares. Nightmares that could only take place in the mind of a psychopath.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, nightmare, halloween, vengeance, abandoned house, youth, danger, psychopath, friends, supernatural, brutality, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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48%
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The Doll (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Anya and Daniel just moved to their new house in Bandung. Daniel brings home a doll from his workplace. Anya, who is a dollmaker, welcomes the doll happily to their house. They later learned that the doll belonged to a little girl named Uci, who ...
Style: scary, bleak, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: doll, possession, ghost, evil doll, violence, girl, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, paranormal, characters in danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
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47%
 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 ⇓
47%
 2.3
 151
The Ideal (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: paranormal, teacher, high school, violence, betrayal, teenager, paranormal phenomena, demon, supernatural, vengeance, peril, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Ditch Day Massacre (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, revenge, psychopath, son murders father, teenager, police corruption, vengeance, teenage girl, youth, chase, danger, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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47%
 4.5
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Inhabited (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: goblin, family relations, supernatural, ghost, riddles and clues, danger, family life, monster, psychiatrist, little creatures, psychiatric hospital, magical creature ...
Time: year 1955
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.5
 2K
The Sound (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.
Style: suspense, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, danger, fear, hallucination, death, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, evil, investigation, spirit, graphic violence, loneliness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.2
 1K
Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.0
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The Cradle (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ghost child, riddles and clues, supernatural, ghost, curse, curses spells and rituals, gory, isolation, family life, captivity, danger, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.9
 2K
The Unspoken (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1997 the close-knit Anderson family vanished from their home without a trace. No bodies were ever found and no explanation satisfied curiosity. For 17 years the house has remained undisturbed...until now. This eerily expert frightener is further ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, murder, death, family in danger, danger, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, paranormal investigation, exorcism, evil force, investigation ...
Time: year 1997, year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
An American Haunting (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, rape, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, curse, sexual abuse, death, chase, redemption, supernatural horror, witch ...
Time: 19th century, year 2006, year 2005, ancient times, year 2000 ...
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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