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The Appearing (2014)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, independent film
Plot:
supernatural, curse, danger, curses spells and rituals, small town, human host, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession, religions or cults, violent content, woman, graphic violence, deadly, standoff
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Appearing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and tense films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, deadly, murder, curses spells and rituals and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Appearing: Plasterhead (2006), Closed for the Season (2010), Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014), Kill Katie Malone (2010), Ghost Month (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, vengeance, survival, danger, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, west virginia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, killer clown, clown, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, survival, evil, freak, haunted, violent content, lake monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, columbus ohio, ohio
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, supernatural, danger, frame up, captivity, amateur detective, haunting, psychic, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, college, afterlife, supernatural, buddies, genie, ghost, best friend, murder, paranormal, devil, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Writer/Director Danny Draven takes the helm for this supernaturally driven shocker about an unassuming housekeeper drawn into a terrifying world of vengeful apparitions. According to the Chinese calendar, the seventh month of every year marks the ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, danger, murder, legends and myths, supernatural, religions or cults, paranormal phenomena, perfume, desert, supernatural horror, supernatural ability ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, ...
Style:
suspense, independent film, serious, scary, offbeat ...
Plot:
zombie, isolation, small town, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, dealing with death, mentally unstable, resort, family in danger, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, confined, isolation, law enforcement, danger, ghost, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, haunted house, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, wilderness, danger, police investigation, supernatural, witch, survival, violence, death, fear, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two families go to an open house and can't leave
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
family in danger, supernatural, survival, captivity, rivalry, girl, confined space, ghost, strong violent content, uninhibited rivalry, danger, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, danger, investigation, uncover truth, hopes, murder, woman in danger, supernatural, starting over, losing-it hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota, iowa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, demonic, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
curse, supernatural, ghost, spell, small town, clergy, suicide, social misfits, mass suicide, danger, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, missouri, kentucky, new york, utah ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
possession, danger, isolation, rivalry, supernatural, small town, survival, murder, violence, ghost, pregnancy, deadly creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
Similarity:
100%
804
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, danger, murder, supernatural, rivalry, confined, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
Style:
serious, mockbuster, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunting, curse, danger, estate, nightmare comes true, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted, house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, small town, ghost, murder, witch, pursuit, sheriff, drowning, danger, parents and children, relocation, witchcraft ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally ...
Style:
suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
supernatural, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, demon, murder, danger, couples, isolation, dishonesty, curses spells and rituals, psychiatric ward, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
afterlife, found footage, ghost, mentally unstable, psychiatric ward, mental institution, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, hospital, danger, violence, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, supernatural, law enforcement, showdown, violence, killer, supernatural ability, violent content, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
good versus evil, demon, danger, curses spells and rituals, murder, rivalry, supernatural, small town, ghost, law enforcement, showdown, investigation ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, possession, urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, prison, danger, youth, redneck, characters murdered one by one, grave, wrestling ...
Time:
year 2012, 1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
ghost, woman, supernatural, haunted by the past, woman in danger, danger, violence, haunted, home invasion, serial killer, haunted house, macabre ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, haunted, haunting, female nudity, meme, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
monster, curses spells and rituals, survival, murder, danger, dangerous animal, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, demon, child in peril, ghost, curses spells and rituals, danger, saving a life, possession, death, violence, exorcism, family drama ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, ritual, grief, danger, dealing with death, folk horror, occult, pagan, haunted by the past, isolation, spouse in danger, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted by the past, woman in danger, vengeance, danger, riddles and clues, macabre, haunted house, rivalry, wedding, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has not been entered in 100 years. Inside are the skeletal ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
prison, supernatural, investigation, ghost, supernatural ability, legends and myths, murder, religions or cults, danger, mythical creature, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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