Movies like Cucuy: The Boogeyman

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Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018)
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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, scary, atmospheric, bleak, surprise ending, folk tale
Plot: urban legend, kidnapping, supernatural, child in peril, macabre, evil spirit, fear, supernatural being, danger, brother brother relationship, forest, murder, missing person, small town, curses spells and rituals, child, supernatural horror, monster, paranormal, house arrest, haunted, curse, attorney, children, police officer ...
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Cucuy: The Boogeyman

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, danger, murder, ghost, fear, death and demon mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Cucuy: The Boogeyman: Slender Man (2018), The Tall Man (2012), The Chosen (2015), Mama (2013), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 3.2
 38K
Slender Man (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Style: bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, teenager, friendship, teenage protagonist, small town, woods, teenage girl, evil, monster ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 43K
The Tall Man (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, abduction, urban legend, uncover truth, conspiracy, danger, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
24%
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, child in peril, creature, supernatural horror, monster, deadly creature, parents and children, danger, little girl, old dark house, teeth ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.7
 2K
Be Afraid (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark, suspense
Plot: fear, son, abduction, murder, father, loss of son, danger, evil force, paranormal activity, pursuit, macabre, supernatural ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.1
 1K
The Nanny (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Young Noa and Michael are put in the care of their new nanny, Leonor, who Noa suspects is a malicious supernatural being. Dismissed by those around her, Noa works to uncover Leonor's true identity, but soon finds herself with far more than she ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, nanny, children, fear, woman, secrets, kidnapping, suspicion, evil, urban legend, small town, babysitting ...
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.0
 638
Apparition (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot: curse, car accident, murder, urban legend, ghost, supernatural power, heroes, curses spells and rituals, family relations, deadly creature, characters in danger, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.5
 114K
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 ⇓
22%
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark ...
Plot: supernatural being, supernatural, monster, curse, demon, reincarnation, gory, exploitation, mayor, judge, revenge, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.5
 2K
The Hollow (2004)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, gothic horror, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, halloween, curse, curses spells and rituals, uncover truth, legends and myths, gory, mysterious character, danger, investigation, supernatural, headless horseman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.8
 8K
The Wicked (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witch, urban legend, kidnapping, supernatural, teenage life, youth, small town, woods, search party, danger, gory, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.3
 24K
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
Style: suspense, slasher, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, supernatural, incestuous relationship, vampire, mother son incest, incestuous sex, monster, sex scene, kidnapping, cat, stephen king, violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana, usa, california, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.0
 33K
Darkness Falls (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Style: scary, dark, suspense, demonic, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, lighthouse, child in peril, ghost, supernatural horror, small town, danger, haunted by the past, legends and myths, darkness, boy, monster ...
Time: y2k, year 2003
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 22K
The Super (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apartment building, missing person, father daughter relationship, disappearance, ex cop, secrets, child in peril, supernatural, paranormal, mysterious stranger, macabre, serial killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
 5.2
 2K
Cryptid (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: creature, hunting, journalist, deadly creature, supernatural ability, killings, peril, rescue, evil, paranormal, violence, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Evil Takes Root (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A paranormal investigator arrives in a sleepy Midwest town to investigate the mysterious loss of his old lover and reconcile sins of the past. He discovers she fell victim to the Batibat, an ancient evil that followed her home from the Philippines.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, occult, coven, demon, evil, possession, witchcraft, family in danger, paranormal, danger, peril, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 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 ⇓
20%
 4.3
 1K
Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Devil in the Dark (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When estranged brothers Adam and Clint attempt to reconnect over a week-long hunting trip in remote British Columbia, they find the tables turned by a mysterious presence lurking in the forest. Convinced that they are now besieged by a supernatural ...
Style: dark, serious, bleak, scary, spooky ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, hunting, forest, creature, supernatural, sibling relationship, wendigo, woods, danger, mysterious place, occult, cave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 51K
Before I Wake (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: subconscious, supernatural, dream, orphan, child, nightmare, adoption, supernatural power, monster, supernatural ability, danger, insomnia ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Lady in White (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, halloween, supernatural, serial killer, murder, bullying, small town, child in peril, coming of age, maniac, investigation, child's point of view ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 4.4
 29K
The Grudge (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to ...
Style: scary, tense, harsh, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, death, supernatural, ghost, terror, paranormal, disorder, violence, danger, adaptation, domestic disturbance, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2006, year 2004, year 2005, 2020s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Midnight Man (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, slasher ...
Plot: fear, grandmother, supernatural horror, game of death, macabre, supernatural, urban legend, demon, hallucination, death of child, monster, nightmare ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 45K
The Reaping (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to ...
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, religious horror, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disaster, supernatural, apocalypse, swamp, small town, religion, death, danger, save the world, curses spells and rituals, investigation, miraculous event ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: murder, paranormal investigation, supernatural power, friendship, chase, supernatural, evil, monster, fear, friends, hunting, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Vine, a disillusioned demon, is forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl. Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: demon, paranormal, fear, revenge, murder, death, violence, deadly creature, society, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.4
 21K
Intruders (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, psychological horror ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, father daughter relationship, protective parent, psychologist, family relations, nightmare comes true, parents and children, nobody believes, evil force, family in danger, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.8
 5K
The Binding (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: supernatural, curse, child, mother daughter relationship, paranormal investigation, loss, rescue, revenge, paranormal, ghost, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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