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The Fear of Darkness (2015)
711
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, amnesia, hallucination, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, danger, showdown, memory loss, hypnosis, memory, imaginary friend, psychosis, solar eclipse, allergy, fear of ghosts, bare feet, barefoot, barefoot woman, female bare feet, birthmark, standoff, crimes
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about danger, murder, deadly, violence, supernatural, ghost and serial killer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Fear of Darkness: Clinical (2017), Darkroom (2013), Paradise Cove (2021), Rule of Three (2008), You Are Not Alone (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
Style:
christmas horror, suspense, psychological, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
patient, holiday horror, psychiatrist, murder, police officer, house, pills, car accident, self mutilation, father daughter relationship, mental illness, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
held captive, torture, rehabilitation, escape, addiction, starting over, family relations, siblings relations, survival, violence, danger, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A contractor and his wife move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house, but are terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the house.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, f word
Plot:
homeless woman, uninvited guest, rivalry, social problems, showdown, relationship problems, fight, inheritance, miscarriage, pregnancy, murderer, beach house ...
Place:
malibu california, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One seedy, middle-of-nowhere hotel room -- viewed at three different points in time -- is the scene of most of the action in this film noir that revolves around the mystery of a young woman's abduction and her father's quest to solve it. ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, tense, sexual, suspense ...
Plot:
drug dealing, abduction, motel, investigation, danger, escapades, murder, student, captive, riddles and clues, kidnapping, hotel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare ... With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent ...
Style:
slasher, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, murder, pursuit, danger, sociopath, getting home, college graduate, survival, holiday horror, slice of life, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
422
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, law enforcement, murder, alter ego, danger, rivalry, violence, bare chested male, serial killer, trippy, neighbor, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, small town, human host, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
solar eclipse, woman in danger, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, suspicion, confined, mysterious stranger, ritual, home invasion, ghost, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
20%
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574
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition.
Style:
suspenseful, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ancient mystery, captivity, danger, store, escapades, struggle for survival, murder, violence, rivalry, love triangle, writer's life, boss and employee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A zealous vigilante looking to clean the Internet of sin targets a group of teens that broadcast misadventures on their chatroom.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
found footage, nudity, serial killer, stalker, food, abduction, danger, undercover, murder, investigation, internet, sin ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face.
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
grief, supernatural, loss, supernatural horror, problem, mysticism, threat, lesbian teen, ghost, woman, truth, female bare feet ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father's, passing through town, also spends the night. ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, blind woman, isolated house, survival, danger, maniac, fear, violence, fleeing, supernatural, canuxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
creature, small town, danger, deadly creature, family relations, survival, showdown, woods, resistance, rivalry, violence, folk horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, threatening telephone call, fear, hallucination, investigation, murderer, anonymous telephone call, problem, radio announcer, race against time, hypnosis, investigative journalism ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A man returns to the childhood town where his brother was abducted 20 years earlier.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, haunted by the past, missing person, danger, small town, woods, investigation, violence, death, bigfoot, missing child, girlfriend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
19%
561
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, death row, captivity, isolation, danger, filmmaking, confined, curses spells and rituals, abduction, electric chair, kidnapping, hollywood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, hooker, prostitute, supernatural, haunted house, brothel, curse, poltergeist, evil spirit, danger, murder, party ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
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538
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, murder, manhunt, danger, survival, isolation, violence, found footage, jack the ripper, prank, contamination, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
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:
19%
648
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, masked killer, danger, murder, violence, xmas, comeback, pursuit, escaped prisoner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
900
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:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
nightmare, vengeance, murder, childhood trauma, ghost, danger, uncover truth, memory loss, haunted by the past, haunted house, losing-it hero, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, slasher
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
curse, high school, murder, graduation, attempted rape, self defense, father son relationship, violence, jealousy, teenager, survival, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, vigilantism, hospital, store, revenge, murder, abduction, paralysis, investigation, danger, twins, wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
732
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
woods, group of friends, dungeon, survival, experiment, danger, murder, anti war, betrayal, anti war protest, interracial couple, cheating boyfriend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera ...
Style:
scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, danger, youth, photograph, brutality, mysticism, cursed object, blood, death, isolation, fatalism, supernatural ...
Similarity:
18%
544
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, murder, small town, law enforcement, monster, danger, violence, creature feature, killer animal, creature, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of friends are stalked by a mysterious knife-wielding murderess as they gather at the home of their late friend to hear the reading of his will, and participate in a morbid treasure hunt for the key to his vast fortune.
Style:
homoerotic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
danger, friends, rivalry, last wish, riddles and clues, murder, funeral, homosexual subtext, maniac, gay, gay subtext, mansion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree ...
Style:
demonic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
evil spirit, tree, murder, curse, cursed, demon, paranormal phenomena, urban legend, legend, danger, demonic possession, seance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
18%
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