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Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, bleak, thought provoking, scary, philosophical, political, dark ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, artist, hypnosis, terror, mental disorder, hallucination, body horror, occult, disorder, teenage crush, friends, society, danger, homoeroticism, superhero, teenager, pandemic, photographer, guts, creature, therapy, cosmic horror, dissociative identity disorder, gay subtext, trapped in a building ...
Time:
2010s, year 2007, year 2019
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to Daniel Isn't Real
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and weird films with plots about supernatural, monster, terror, supernatural horror, ghost, death and danger mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Daniel Isn't Real: Session 9 (2001), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Innkeepers (2011), The Empty Man (2020), Spiral (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
67K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, gothic, lovecraft ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, insanity, supernatural horror, book, paranoia, ghost town, investigation, hallucination, gory, novelist, writers, american horror ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, distant future
Place:
new england, new hampshire, manhattan new york city, england, europe ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
dark, psychological, spooky, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hotel, fear, macabre, ghost, paranormal, death, ghost story, workplace, suicide, hotel receptionist, zombie, devil ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa, seattle
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, investigation, suicide, cosmic horror, supernatural, supernatural horror, death, hospital, grief, danger, demonic possession, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place:
missouri, himalaya
Similarity:
49%
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10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, creepy, surreal, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, curse, obsession, small town, surrealism, darkness, insanity, transformation, body horror, mental disorder, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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49%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations ​are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, queer horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, teenager, supernatural, lesbian, serial killer, witch, lesbian teen, lgbt, alter ego, killer, terror, masked killer ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style:
psychological horror, horrifying, psychological thriller, spooky, creepy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
missing husband, tunnel, missing person, grief, cosmic horror, evil force, woman in danger, investigator, presumed dead, hopes, back from the dead, creature ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, murder, witch, lesbian, monster, woman in danger, alter ego, homicidal maniac, teenager, snake, clairvoyant ...
Time:
year 1978, 2020s, 70s, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
44K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development, and the prospects of a new ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, scary, modern fairy tale, psychedelic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parenthood, folk horror, farm, creature, body horror, grief, husband wife relationship, mountain, supernatural, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fatherhood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, intense, dark, thought provoking ...
Plot:
fear, mental illness, schizophrenia, teen angst, schizophrenic, fictional reality, missing child, delusion, hospitalization, hearing voices, abduction, paranoid schizophrenia ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
Style:
suspense, creepypasta, dark, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
teenager, role playing, characters murdered one by one, paranormal activity, internet, isolation, supernatural horror, supernatural, hacking, deaf, psychopath, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
48%
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Style:
scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
evil doll, ventriloquist, alter ego, ventriloquist dummy, magic, doll, slow burn, split personality, rise and fall, puppet, objects come to life, toys ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, erotic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, nightmare, demonic possession, demon, student, occult, paranormal phenomena, running for your life, hallucination, bare chested male, death, fear ...
Time:
year 2017, 60s, year 1969
Place:
ohio, wisconsin
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, lovecraft ...
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, murder, obsession, investigation, danger, gory, haunted by the past, extreme, ghost, father, good guys win ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
48%
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:
slasher, scary, spooky, epic, psychological horror ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
clown, killer clown, stephen king, evil clown, fear, asthma, group of friends, supernatural horror, villain, evil, carnival, panic ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2019, 80s, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
maine, los angeles, new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
José Sirgado, filmmaker in his thirties, has completed his second film and is deeply unsatisfied for various reasons. One may be that his relationship with the film has nothing to do with what he had imagined, another may be that the heroine of his ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, crying, cult classic, slasher ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, filmmaking, hallucination, drug addict, mental disorder, nudity, gay, found footage, female nudity, surrealism, drug addiction, visitor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
48%
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12K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
Style:
anthology, christmas horror, suspense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
halloween, holiday horror, st. patrick's day, christmas, snake, pregnancy, valentine's day, holiday, killer santa claus, pagan cult, torture, monster ...
Time:
year 2016
Similarity:
47%
104K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
Similarity:
47%
20K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely young boy feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy’s devices against him to break into our world, his parents ...
Style:
spooky, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
imaginary friend, husband wife relationship, haunted house, autism, supernatural, child protagonist, monster, found footage, loneliness, family relations, demon, hallucination ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Style:
gothic, horrifying, stylized, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, boarding school, supernatural, obsession, making love, mysterious character, friends, youth, danger, social relations, haunted by the past, girls' school ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Time seems to stand still in a village in the Galician coast. Everybody there is paralyzed although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women arrive in the village to find Rubio, a sailor who ...
Style:
experimental, scary, unusual plot structure, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
fisherman, ghost, surrealism, witch, creature, peril, monster, supernatural ability, murder, deadly creature, society, demon ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, djinn, violence, genie, devil, wish come true, transformation, supernatural power, violent, curses spells and rituals, monster, blood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. ...
Style:
psychological, creepy, dark, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
supernatural horror, ghost, haunted, imaginary friend, mother daughter relationship, divorce, haunted house, spirit, fear, evil child, starting over, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, 70s, year 1974, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, seattle, washington state ...
Similarity:
47%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what ...
Style:
mind bending, surreal, mindfuck, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
friendship, cosmic horror, drug addict, supernatural, buddies, danger, isolation, wilderness, woods, profanity, cabin in the woods, supernatural horror ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, teen horror, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, internet, found footage, teenager, suicide, youth, ghost, cyberbullying, computer, social media, revenge, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only other four female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame ...
Style:
scary, demonic, gothic, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, trance, haunted house, black magic, private school, troubled teen, possessed, ghost, talent, boarding house, schoolgirl, hearing voices ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
Style:
suspense, scary, bleak, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, cosmic horror, occult, killing, ghost, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, rescue, youth, death, victim, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
47%
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