Movies like Mercy 2014

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Mercy (2014)
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Mercy (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, demonic, lovecraft, grindhouse, creepy, terrifying
Plot: stephen king, supernatural, child protagonist, curses spells and rituals, family relations, boy in peril, single parent, siblings relations, boy, supernatural ability, elderly, imaginary, grandmother grandson relationship, mental illness, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, ghost, occult, pagan, mutation, girl, supernatural horror, haunted, meme, book of magic ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

Most similar movies to Mercy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, ghost, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability and murder mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Mercy: The Visit (2015), The Chosen (2015), Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011), Children of the Corn (1984), The Haunting of Helena (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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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 ⇓
54%
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for ...
Style: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark ...
Plot: killer child, stephen king, supernatural, creepy child, telekinesis, religion, killer scarecrow, evil child, scarecrow, youth, vengeance, gory ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: religions or cults, stephen king, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, youth, confined, curses spells and rituals, isolation, farmhouse, evil child, killer child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in ...
Style: slasher, classic horror, cult horror, pastoral, saga ...
Plot: stephen king, evil child, teenager, religion, killer child, folk horror, occult, creepy kid, bad kids, faith, creepy child, psycho ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Children of the Corn (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style: suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: killer child, folk horror, children, blood, religion, creepy child, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, child murders an adult ...
Time: 80s
Place: nebraska, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness ...
Style: slasher, scary, classic horror, pastoral, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stephen king, serial killer, killer child, evil child, supernatural, gory, murder, chase, blood, siblings, psycho, creepy child ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, scary, classic horror, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, children, stephen king, creepy child, killer child, cornfield, occult, evil child, reporter, investigation, gory, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
28%
 5.3
 14K
Incarnate (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, satanic, rough ...
Plot: demonic possession, possession, supernatural, exorcism, demon, exorcist, danger, possessed, scientist, imaginary, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.8
 721
Killing Ariel (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: femme fatale, supernatural, dangerous attraction, demon, murder, couples, dishonesty, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, psychiatric ward, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: creature, small town, deadly creature, danger, family relations, survival, woods, showdown, violence, resistance, rivalry, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Dunwich Horror (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood ...
Style: lovecraft, suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, mutant, parallel world, ancient mystery, curses spells and rituals, danger, legends and myths, destiny, escapades, occult, cthulhu, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces. Yet even as bodies begin cropping ...
Style: slasher, classic horror, saga, pastoral, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stephen king, creepy child, evil child, killer child, supernatural, religion, teenager, folk horror, murderer, bad kids, occult, creepy kid ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: prison, ghost, rivalry, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, frame up, captivity, found footage, haunting, afterlife, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The New Daughter (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering ...
Style: scary, tense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, teenage girl, supernatural, indian burial ground, single parent, danger, curses spells and rituals, life turned upside down, parents and children, family in danger, father daughter relationship, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 2.9
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Sight (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: ghost, mental illness, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, supernatural, investigation, fear, phobia, missing person, murder, eye ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
House of Bones (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, horrifying, terrifying ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, imaginary, danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, survival, trapped, haunted, media, terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
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23%
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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 ...
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23%
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The Harvesting (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, demon, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, violence, danger, peril, curses spells and rituals, family relations, death, paranormal investigation, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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House at the End of the Drive (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: paranormal, ghost, ghost story, paranormal phenomena, peril, demon, serial murder, deadly creature, friends, curses spells and rituals, revenge, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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666: The Beast (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Donald Lawson, the devil child from "666: The Child", is now an adult and is determined to fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist.
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, independent film, serious
Plot: supernatural ability, supernatural, danger, destiny, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, messiah, 666, violent content, disorder, gory, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska - only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possessed children. As she digs deeper, she ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: stephen king, zombie, ghost, small town, good versus evil, supernatural, serial killer, creepy child, religions or cults, danger, escapades, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.4
 4K
The Pact II (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, haunted by the past, woman in danger, danger, violence, woman, haunted, haunted house, home invasion, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Riding the Bullet (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1969, Alan Parker (Jackson) is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine. He becomes obsessed with death, and believing he is losing his girlfriend, Jessica (Christensen), he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, talky, intense ...
Plot: macabre, life & death, stephen king, halloween, on the road, ghost, hitchhiker, death, brutality, road trip, psychopath, hospital ...
Time: year 2004, year 1969, 60s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, parents and children, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, danger, serial killer, legends and myths, family relations, single mother, haunted ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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