Movies like The Goblin

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The Goblin (2017)
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The Goblin (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A boy imprisoned by an abusive recluse mother alone in a mansion in the 1920s begins to get ideas of his own when a goblin in his closet comforts him in the dark.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, crying, minimal cast, gothic horror
Plot: creature, abusive parent, boy, sadism, loneliness, murder, dysfunctional family, punishment, female psychopath, bondage, cruelty, mysterious event, abused child, absent father, mentally unstable, little boy, child killer, monster, strong female lead, psychopath, spider, storm, abusive relationship, doll, alcoholic ...
Time: 1920s
Keyword: outburst

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Most similar movies to The Goblin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, crying and psychological films with plots about murder, screaming woman, blood, violence, telephone call, locked door and family relations mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Goblin: The Attic (1980), The Baby (1973), Like.Share.Follow. (2017), Pet (2016), Brahms: The Boy II (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, suspense ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, pedophile, witchcraft, woman in danger, adultery, folk horror, rescue, femme fatale, father daughter reunion, strong female character, transformation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.6
 858
The Attic (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.
Style: suspense, independent film, scary, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, family relations, hagsploitation, father, mental disorder, female psychopath, world war two, bad father, exploitation, murder, attic, pets ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.1
 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Like.Share.Follow. (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue... or to stalking, ...
Style: cyber, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: fan, male rape victim, obsession, love story, danger, teenage boy, meeting, stalker, stalking, serial killer, mental disorder, technology ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 19K
Pet (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, basement, kidnapping, captivity, stalking, psychopath, locked in a cage, disturbed individual, fear, stalker, animal shelter, obsessive love ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Canada, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, evil, doll, death, murder, devil, violence, curses spells and rituals, danger, mansion, puppet, boy ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: twins, mental illness, torture, brother brother relationship, divorce, isolation, children, boy, animal mask, supernatural, terror, child ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: austria, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.2
 549
The Third Eye (1966)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The young Count Mino live in a big, old castle together with his dominant mother and a maid. Mother does not want him to marry his fiancee Laura, which turns out to have dire consequences.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, neo noir, crying
Plot: wedding, age-gap relationship, owl, mental illness, mother, manor, mental patient, trauma, killing, dead body, murderer, bare chested male ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 8K
Shrew's Nest (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: agoraphobia, murder, female psychopath, religion, father daughter relationship, isolation, sister sister relationship, incest, mentally unstable, obsession, danger, hidden ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.9
 3K
Trash Fire (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man forced to confront his past when he and his girlfriend end up entangled in a web of lies.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, rough, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, christianity, disfigured face, secret past, sadism, delusion, dark humor, brother sister relationship, old woman, bossy woman, guilt, socially awkward ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.2
 3K
To Let (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Australia, South Africa
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Mario and his pregnant girlfriend Clara are trying to find in a short period a new apartment to live since they have sold their apartment and they need to move in fifteen days. When Mario finds an attractive advertisement in his mailbox, he ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apartment building, psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, gory, family relations, pregnancy, female protagonist, female psychopath, trap, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.4
 45K
Countdown (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Style: scary, mysterious, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: phone terror, fear, supernatural, countdown, death, youth, demon, race against time, teenager, survival, supernatural power, game ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Mirror Mirror (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: murder, goth girl, teenage girl, violence, danger, supernatural, black magic, mirror, blood, bullying, curses spells and rituals, nightmare ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 1930s, year 1939
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.2
 3K
Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, dangerous animal, supernatural, lycanthropy, deadly creature, serial killer, gory, teenage life, stalking, adventurer, survival, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Place: europe, england, london, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Office Killer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder ...
Style: psychological, slasher, black comedy, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: asthma, workplace, office, asthmatic, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, workplace romance, obsession, goofy hero, protagonist as suspect, evil woman ...
Time: 90s
Place: virginia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Room for Rent (2019)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot: loneliness, widow, age difference, rape, socially awkward, sexual abuse, mental illness, obsession, sociopath, violence, woman rapes man, female psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.9
 9K
Prevenge (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Style: disturbing, horror comedy, slasher, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: revenge, baby, murder, female chauvinist, serial killer, feminist, psychopath, hospital, childbirth, seeing dead people, killer, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Animas (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Abraham and his female friend Álex have a close relationship; they share both secrets and fears. When Abraham starts going out with Anchi, he begins to distance himself from Álex, who gradually dives into a living hell where she encounters strange ...
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: childhood friend, father son relationship, psychotherapy, abusive father, psychotherapist, imaginary friend, split personality, mental illness, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hearing voices, mysterious event ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Three bizarre horror stories ending with the story of an African doll out for blood.
Style: anthology, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: evil doll, twins, doll, toys, objects come to life, sibling rivalry, supernatural, couples, danger, puppet, teachers and students, killer doll ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Nightmare Castle (1965)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, mad scientist, supernatural, murder, infidelity, rivalry, possessed woman, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, vengeance, obsession, danger ...
Time: 60s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
62%
Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 2K
Bad Ronald (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, bloody, classic horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, comic book, nightmare on elm street, supernatural, vengeance, murder, gory, blood, psycho terror, child killer, serial teen killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1992, 1940s
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style: gothic, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, filmmaking, aging, dysfunctional family, actress, violence, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1935, year 1917, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place: los angeles, america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.6
 7K
Crush (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
Style: psychological thriller, slasher, twist ending, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: obsession, stalking, high school, stalker, violent woman, secret admirer, depression, twists and turns, college, woman seduces a man, survival horror, fatal attraction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.6
 207
Darkness (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: haunted by the past, homecoming, countryside, secret past, hallucination, secret, childhood trauma, old dark house, painting, woman rapes man, political unrest, changing the past or future ...
Time: 2000s, 1940s, 21st century
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Influence (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Queenie, the Faraday family's grandmother and oppressive matriarch, is finally laid to rest, no one could foresee the horrifying extent of her evil influence, which continues even beyond death.
Style: dark, twist ending, psychotronic, crying, surprise ending ...
Plot: witchcraft, mother daughter relationship, black magic, ghost, hospital, supernatural, rite, spell, witchery, haunted house, haunted, creepy child ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.5
 139K
Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, mirror, supernatural horror, danger, siblings relations, paranormal activity, ghost, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, hallucination ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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