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Possum (2018)
12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, psychological, phantasmagoric, disturbing, post-horror, scary, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, puppet, supernatural, mental disorder, missing child, hardcore, madness, evil, haunted house, danger, curses spells and rituals, demon, violence, graphic violence, violent content, folk horror, macabre, murder, puzzle, doll, loner, octopus, fear, darkness ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Possum
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, macabre, danger, ghost, nightmare, blood and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Possum: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Nightmare Cinema (2018), A Field in England (2013), They Look Like People (2015), Saint Maud (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the ...
Style:
anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, demonic possession, supernatural, murder, hospital, paranormal activity, alien invasion, child murder, child in peril, demon, teenage boy, graphic violence ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
folk horror, psychedelia, wilderness, group of strangers, surrealism, hallucination, captivity, danger, chaos, trippy, on the run, poisoning ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 17th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes ...
Style:
suspense, medical horror, psychological, psychological thriller, art house ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
obsession, nightmare, mental illness, supernatural, possession, nervous breakdown, terminal illness, nurse, psycho, loneliness, religious fanatic, narration ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Style:
retro, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
movie studio, mental disorder, unsettling, nightmare, arthouse horror, torture, repeated scene, torment, puzzle, darkness, underground, folk horror ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
16K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, suspenseful, surreal, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, male nudity, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, xmas ...
Time:
2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, cerebral, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
mental illness, surrealism, rape, insanity, schizophrenia, murder, isolation, delusion, hallucination, fear, nightmare, claustrophobia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help ...
Style:
mockumentary, psychological horror, scary, creepy, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, found footage, haunted house, slow burn, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, family life, drowning, lake, psychic, uncover truth, investigation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
170K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, police, professor, uncover truth, obsession, hallucination, sleeping, murder, haunted by the past, missing person, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, supernatural horror, afterlife, ghost child, death, macabre, writers, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place:
england, europe, britain, seattle, london
Similarity:
100%
364K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demon, fear, afterlife, nightmare, paranormal activity, boy, psychic, danger, evil spirit, supernatural horror ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, year 2000, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
america, usa
Similarity:
100%
34K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets
Style:
scary, tense, sexy, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
tunnel, subway, gory, violent, chase, train, brutality, woman in danger, deadly creature, murder, blood, monster ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, england, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, erotic ...
Plot:
forest, making love, supernatural, murder, ghost, violent death, uncover truth, police investigation, danger, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, time travel ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
448K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style:
psychological horror, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah, america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Plot:
mental illness, tragedy, suicide, death, ghost, children, hallucination, stepmother, twists and turns, evil stepmother, guilt, haunted house ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
100%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
296K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, sexy, gothic horror, creepy ...
Plot:
insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, goth, mind game, obsession, drug, haunted house, hallucination, writers ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, regency period
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
home invasion, sister sister relationship, nightmare, sisters, serial killer, female protagonist, doll, haunted, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, insanity, escape ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
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14K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Feature length version of the 2013 Turkish short film about police making a horrifying discovery in an apartment building.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, creepy, lovecraft ...
Plot:
nightmare, black mass, body horror, frog, torture, road accident, hell, sect, violence, supernatural horror, insanity, police officer ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
21%
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:
suspense, lovecraft, disturbing, tense, tension ...
Plot:
occult ritual, ritual, paranormal phenomena, giant monster, ritual sacrifice, monster, demon, cosmic horror, undercover, religious cult, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, spooky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
occult, ritual, black magic, occult ritual, demon, angel, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, female protagonist, folk horror, supernatural, paranormal activity ...
Place:
ireland, wales
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a young couple from the wrong side of the tracks decide to take on an inheritance fraud job, little do they know that they have accepted a fate far darker then they could ever have imagined.
Style:
suspenseful, psychotronic, psychedelic, enigmatic, rough ...
Plot:
supernatural, folk horror, country house, nervous breakdown, woods, village, sacrifice, demon, macabre, brutality, surrealism, forest ...
Similarity:
67%
313K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, creepy, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, evil force, writer's life, surprising revelation, family in danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, year 1966, year 1986, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, california, missouri ...
Similarity:
50%
7K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
Style:
retro, surreal, sexy, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, murder, haunted by the past, woman in danger, estate, arthouse horror, adolescent girl, erotica, perversion, desire, bitterness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, philosophical, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, inheritance, supernatural, death, collector, religions or cults, wealth, death of mother, occult, paranormal, religious ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
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