Movies like The Dark

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The Dark (2018)
 5.6
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The Dark (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Austria, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, scary, psychological horror, weird
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie, blind character, girl, friendship, uncover truth, loneliness, forest, suicide, fear, infected, missing child, desperation, small town, vampire, shark, haunted house, psycho killer, supernatural horror, woods, flashback, undead, flesh eating, teenager, monster, murder ...

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Most similar movies to The Dark

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about supernatural, danger, fear, zombie, monster, death and murder mostly in Horror, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Dark: The Transfiguration (2016), Rufus (2012), Anger of the Dead (2015), Terrified (2017), The Witch in the Window (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Transfiguration (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A New York tale about love, loss… and vampires.
Style: psychological horror, suspense, tense, bleak, scary ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, teenager, suicide, teenage boy, supernatural, black, vampire, police, blood, money, cemetery, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.2
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Rufus (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Rufus is a shy and lonely boy determined to make a new start. Sure he has some quirks. So what if he likes the taste of blood? It's not like he's addicted. When a cunning vampire hunter slips into town searching for the fountain of youth, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: vampire, vampire hunter, supernatural, small town, danger, loneliness, dangerous attraction, youth, dark secret, evil child, teenager, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Anger of the Dead (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the plague. Meanwhile a dangerous man is on the trail of a mysterious girl, ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, virus, undead, walking dead, violence, cannibalism, cannibal, zombie apocalypse, dystopian future, chase, death, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.5
 22K
Terrified (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: macabre, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, paranormal phenomena, reanimated corpse, haunted house, dead child, living dead, supernatural, death of boy, fear, terror ...
Place: argentina, south america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, spooky ...
Plot: exorcism, ghost, father son relationship, fear, witch, supernatural, supernatural power, family in danger, haunted, supernatural horror, danger, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Wicked Little Things (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, undead, abandoned house, zombie child, danger, missing person, small town life, small town, parents and children, ghost, creepy kid, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.5
 299K
It Chapter Two (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, epic, spooky ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: clown, evil clown, killer clown, stephen king, fear, group of friends, evil, panic, carnival, murder, asthma, kids in trouble ...
Time: year 2019, 80s, year 1989, 2010s, year 2016
Place: maine, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 4.8
 3K
The Shed (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: violence, school, danger, bullying, vengeance, fear, supernatural, mockery, demon, vampire, traumatic childhood, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 4.4
 5K
The Maus (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, dark secret, bomb threat, forest, family relations, family problems, death threat, threat, male female relationship, nightmare, travel ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 1.7
 187
Blood Red Moon (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Megan and Victor are teens in love. Victor is a vampire and he is being blamed for a rash of murders in town. It's up to Megan to help to clear Victor's name and to find the vicious killer who is responsible.
Style: serious, scary, gothic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: vampire, love and romance, supernatural, youth, deadly creature, zombie, fall in love, teenage love, murder, teenage life, undead, teen romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.3
 264
Lost Creek (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As they approach the end of childhood, three elementary school kids must brave the woods on Halloween to face a monster born from their nightmares.
Style: scary, bleak, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: halloween, youth, ghost, ghost girl, monster, basement, supernatural power, murder, victim, mission, hunting, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Exit Humanity (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, bleak, tense ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, civil war, chaos, escapades, danger, life is a bitch, good versus evil, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
They Came Back (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: back from the dead, undead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, infection, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 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 ⇓
60%
 5.7
 8K
Livid (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, ...
Style: scary, gothic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, undead, haunted house, paranormal, old mansion, mysterious character, greed, ghost, danger, mysterious place, gory ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.3
 5K
Feral (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wild animal attacks six medical students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with a “feral disease,” turning them into rabid, bloodthirsty creatures, and the vacation becomes a nightmare as they fight to survive ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, brutal, slasher ...
Plot: forest, disease, infected, virus, zombie, survival, friends, wild animal, mutation, fear, panic, woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.1
 60K
Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering ...
Style: suspense, surreal, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, body horror, countryside, intruder, loss of husband, domestic violence, pregnancy, rural setting, symbolism, forest, supernatural, pub ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Dead of Night (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young soldier who was thought to be killed in the line of duty in Vietnam returns home shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of his family. Upon his return, he exhibits strange, withdrawn behavior and begins wandering the streets at night.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Plot: vampire, undead, vietnam war, hitchhiker, zombie, military, canuxploitation, supernatural, soldier, gory, homecoming, paranormal ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Among the Living (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stranded in the aftermath of a deadly outbreak, a brother fights to protect his sister while he desperately searches to find refuge and avoid an infected population with a thirst for blood.
Style: bleak, tense, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, survival horror, apocalypse, struggle for survival, fight, brother, zombie survival, fear, sister, survival, zombie apocalypse
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.1
 127K
Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.3
 41K
The Messengers (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, murder, ghost, haunted, death threat, uncover truth, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, psychopath, family life ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north dakota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.4
 19K
The Monster (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, spooky, tense ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, road trip, creature, strong female lead, creature feature, ambulance, car accident, mother, trapped, forest, strong female character, monster ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Grave Halloween (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: forest, suicide, uncover truth, curse, vengeance, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, gory, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 4.0
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The Infected (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Revolves around Marcos, a thirty something year old man largely unremarkable but for the fact that he managed to escape an epidemic of the undead sweeping through Mexico City - and, indeed, the world - by taking flight and surviving as best he can ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot: zombie, survival, dystopian future, escape, fate of humanity, evil, murder, violence, human existence, walking dead, escapades, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style: scary, grindhouse, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: zombie, gory, suicide, macabre, zombie apocalypse, buried alive, violence, living dead, small town, apocalypse, monster, violent ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: new england, usa, georgia, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
51%
 5.6
 47K
Maggie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style: touching, scary, bleak, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, father daughter relationship, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalyptic, terminal illness, danger, supernatural ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.3
 3K
Inmate Zero (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The film follows a group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St Leonards Island in the north Atlantic, who must unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units.
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, infestation, undead, zombie outbreak, island prison, disease, quarantine, experiment gone awry, medical malpractice, colony, social isolation, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 2K
The Haunted (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Style: suspense, disturbing, spooky, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, haunted, husband wife relationship, paranormal activity, supernatural power, demonic possession, demon, possessed human, priest, new house, paranormal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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