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The Heretics (2017)
 4.8
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The Heretics (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
Style: suspense, tense, sexy, bleak, psychological, queer horror, surprise ending, psychotronic
Plot: satanic cult, satanic ritual, demon, cabin in the woods, abduction, murder, body horror, mother daughter relationship, obsession, folk horror, nightmare, monster, religion, paranormal, bad dream, lesbian, murderer, god, police officer, hell, kidnapping, sex scene, illness, mother, fire ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about murder, supernatural, fear, violence, death, paranormal and demon mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Heretics: Hideaway (1995), The Drownsman (2014), Let Her Out (2016), Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018), Mama (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.3
 7K
Hideaway (1995)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, afterlife, psychopath, psychic, suicide, satanism, secrets, supernatural ability, car accident, psychic link, demon, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Drownsman (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After almost drowning in a lake, Madison finds herself bound to a life of fear. Unable to describe what happened to her during the moments she was underwater, she begins to develop hydrophobia: an abnormal fear of water. Crippled by her post trauma, ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: supernatural horror, serial killer, water, murder, drowning, supernatural power, supernatural, violence, paranormal phenomena, supernatural ability, fear, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.5
 2K
Let Her Out (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, psychological ...
Plot: body horror, tumor, hallucination, psychotic, accident, split personality, female psychopath, murder, villainess, twin sister, duplicity, borderline personality disorder ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, bleak, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot: urban legend, kidnapping, child in peril, supernatural, brother brother relationship, danger, evil spirit, supernatural being, macabre, fear, forest, missing person ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
If a Tree Falls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Siblings, Brad and Lisa Carpenter, along with two lifelong family friends, Will and Vanessa, set out road-tripping to an annual family reunion. They make the decision to find a place to stop and camp for the night. What ensues is a violent ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: redneck, depravity, fear, breakdown, statistics, psychotic, blood, delusion, abduction, brutality, torture, violence ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.7
 18K
The Hallow (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, creepy, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: folk horror, supernatural, creature, monster, forest, woods, legend, survival horror, transformation, survival, family in danger, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 3.6
 613
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
Style: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, murder, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil, revenge, paranormal, characters in danger, supernatural ability, deadly creature, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.3
 1K
Soul to Keep (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.
Style: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, evil girl, hallucination, evil child, female killer, villainess, demonic possession, little girl, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.4
 4K
5ive Girls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, demonic possession, healing power, girls' boarding school, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, danger, youth, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 3.3
 292
Monster Portal (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, lovecraft
Plot: ritual sacrifice, ritual, paranormal phenomena, giant monster, demon, monster, satanic cult, supernatural horror, occult ritual, occult, curses spells and rituals, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
He's Out There (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: home invasion, psychopath, mother daughter relationship, murder, family in danger, woods, daughter, mother, survival, woman in danger, brutality, forest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.3
 217K
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style: disturbing, dark fantasy, suspense, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, stephen king, psychic, ghost, murder, doctor, native american, fear, haunted house, terror, magician ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, iowa, colorado, ohio, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
57%
 5.4
 8K
The Old Ways (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
Style: suspense, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: exorcism, supernatural, mission, journalist, demon, creature, supernatural power, peril, woman in danger, good versus evil, youth, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.5
 3K
Getaway (2020)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The thriller follows Tamara Miller as she plans a weekend lake getaway with her two best friends. When Tamara gets kidnapped by a backwoods cult, eerie and unexplained occurrences arise. Will she make it out alive or become the treasure of these ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough
Plot: vengeance, suicide, missing person, friendship, murder, brutality, family relations, revenge, dishonesty, violence, redneck, stalker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.8
 4K
She Creature (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mythical ...
Plot: mermaid, ship, creature, dangerous animal, countryside, creature feature, sailor, sea monster, danger, rescue, escapades, pregnancy ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1900
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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What Keeps You Alive (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
Style: queer horror, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological horror ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forest, female villain, human prey, psychopath, vacation gone wrong, female killer, lesbian couple, murder, psychotic, survival, betrayal, unrequited love ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination ...
Style: psychological, serious, scary, surprise ending, tense ...
Plot: hypnotist, gay, disorder, experiment gone awry, college, supernatural, student life, gory, danger, mad scientist, confined, experiment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
57%
 3.4
 1K
Devil's Prey (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of young adults attend an all-night rave, only to discover that it's a trap for a satanic cult that requires flesh for bloody sacrifices.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: murder, religious cult, danger, religions or cults, youth, on the run, supernatural, small town life, teenage life, teenager, party, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.7
 528
Anomalous (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub
Style: suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, thrilling
Plot: death, supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, vengeance, rescue, curses spells and rituals, chase, evil, characters in danger, heroes, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 4.5
 128
Kill (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six strangers awake to find themselves the new tenants of a mysterious old house. Terrorized by insane Tiki-men in masks and taunted by their deranged captors,it soon becomes clear that only one singular action will save them: Kill.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: game of death, survival horror, survival, fear, death, violence, house, trapped, island, game, victim, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 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 ⇓
57%
 5.4
 4K
Muse (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: literature, good versus evil, death, supernatural, muse, brutality, husband wife relationship, murder, investigation, blood, professor, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.1
 2K
The Convent (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
Style: gothic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, stylized
Plot: falsely accused, convent, obsession, demon, nightmare, witch, female protagonist, paranormal, fear, occult, nun, possession ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, gory, monster, friday the 13th, murder, violent, torture, nudity, supernatural, blood, violence, death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003
Place: new jersey, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.8
 1K
A Banquet (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but ...
Style: tense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: teenager, teenage girl, faith, mother daughter relationship, family problems, obsession, religious faith, mother and daughter, supernatural horror, body horror, life is a bitch, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 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 ⇓
56%
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