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The Changeover (2017)
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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 slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.
Style: scary, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: supernatural ability, brother sister relationship, danger, suburbs, life, spirit, life is a bitch, brother, sister, woman, siblings, witch, little brother, puppet, deadly, puppets
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and tense films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, supernatural ability, fear, murder and curses spells and rituals mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Changeover: Truth About Demons (2000), The Blazing World (2021), Zombie Farm (2009), Death Row (2007), Fall Down Dead (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Truth About Demons (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the place between what you know, and what you fear, demons rule. All hope is stripped away as demonic forces overcome you. Dr. Harry Ballard has just unearthed the essence of evil. He’s a marked man, a living sacrifice, thrown to the depths of ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, brutal, suspense ...
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Time: 90s
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The Blazing World (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the ...
Style: surreal, psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: death, family relations, paranormal, sister sister relationship, paranormal phenomena, evil, peril, deadly creature, fear, danger, supernatural, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 3.6
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Zombie Farm (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, danger, supernatural, family problems, woman in danger, strong violent content, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, gory, small town, zombie attack, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Death Row (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: prison, psychopath, prison life, survival, serial killer, confined, danger, life is a bitch, murder, execution, death row, all male cast ...
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Fall Down Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie ...
Style: suspenseful, christmas horror, bleak, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, psychopath, stalking, suburbs, christmas, murder witness, xmas, isolation, murder, trapped, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Woe (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A brother and sister stumble upon their father's secret one year after his death. They soon learn that this secret may not be his alone.
Style: suspense, tense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: brother, mental health, sister, secret, suicide, deadly creature, supernatural, supernatural power, ghost, creature, paranormal phenomena, obsessive quest ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.
Style: satanic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: witch, friendship, magic, high school, small town, witchcraft, evil, demon, murder, bullying, save the world, friends ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nightworld (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, Bulgaria, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Soon after delving into the building's sinister ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ghost, investigation, riddles and clues, fear, officer, mastermind, peril, haunted house, undead, haunted, lapd, resourceful ...
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Ouija Craft (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two witches use a Ouija board to resurrect their friend after she dies in a tragic accident.
Style: bleak, suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: witch, coven, curses spells and rituals, peril, vengeance, evil, reincarnation, victim, murder, supernatural, chase, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.2
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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
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59%
 4.5
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Abducted (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: danger, captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, survival, violence, murder, wrestling, kidnapped, escape, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.7
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Jessie (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in an abandoned house, the film follows a team of professional ghost hunters trying to conduct a paranormal investigation to unveil the mystery of two sisters, Jessie and Amy, where Amy shows unusual mental and physical behaviour.
Style: bleak, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Heiress (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire and Anna are cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, bleak, tense, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Dead Room (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 80 min.
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The Nanny (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Witch Hunt (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Plague Town (2008)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Deadly Visions (2004)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman (Nicolette Sheridan) who underwent an eye transplant is haunted by visions of her donor's last moments of life, and she is convinced that the woman was murdered.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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WitchSlayer Gretl (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
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True Fiction (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, tense, psychological ...
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Duration: 81 min.
Story: A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, scary, touching ...
Plot: hunting, demon, heroes, paranormal, characters in danger, death, violence, chase, rescue, killings, supernatural power, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Ferryman (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, serious ...
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Place: oceania, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
May the Devil Take You Too (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two years after escaping from demonic terror, Alfie and Nara try to continue their lives. However, Alfie's worst nightmare has just begun and the dangers that await are increasingly threatening.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, disturbing ...
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Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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To Kill The Dragon (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Elena is kidnapped at seven years old and taken to Hell. Twenty-five years later she returns home and is reunited with Facundo, his older brother. He includes her in his life, but Elena brings to her family the terror of the past she lived. Based on ...
Style: captivating, scary, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot: siblings, fear, flashback, family reunited, curses spells and rituals, rich and poor, parents and children, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, haunted, hidden corpse, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ⇓
39%
 2.5
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Lizzie (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, nightmare, memory loss, haunted by the past, murder, haunted house, childhood trauma, unfulfillment, losing-it hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, slasher ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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