Movies and TV shows like Folklore

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Folklore (2018)
 5.8
 631
Folklore (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.
Style: anthology, mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
Plot: folk horror, folklore, mysticism, supernatural, mythology, legends and myths, myth, urban legend, japanese mythology, supernatural horror, asian, chinese mythology
Keyword: international

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Most similar movies to Folklore

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and mystical films and TV series with plots about supernatural, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, paranormal activity and ghost mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Folklore: Korean Ghost Stories (2008), The Wailer 2 (2007), Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010), The Haunted Museum (2021), Sijjin 4 (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Korean Ghost Stories (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A series of 8 one-act dramas. It is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which aired first on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. This marks the return of the series after nine years.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, mystical, suspense ...
Plot: vengeful ghost, supernatural, mysticism, spirit, supernatural horror, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, female ghost, paranormal activity, haunted, paranormal, ghost ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.2
 103
The Wailer 2 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, mystical
Plot: paranormal phenomena, mysticism, legends and myths, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, legend, paranormal, supernatural, curse, urban legend, monster
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A revamping, if you will, of the 1980's classic horror movie showcase, hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Style: anthology, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: female vampire, survival horror, irreverence, supernatural, seduction, mysticism, vampire, female protagonist, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, seductress, seductive woman ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Haunted Museum (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.
Style: anthology, suspenseful, mystic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, haunting, supernatural horror, paranormal, paranormal activity, ghost, apparition, vengeful ghost, mysticism, paranormal phenomena
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 5.7
 3K
Sijjin 4 (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Due to financial problems, Yilmaz family moves in their grandmother Saadet's house. But Saadet is not living alone as known. Saadet's old house, which is also a tomb of her deceased husband, is inhabited by beings from another dimension. ...
Style: disturbing, mystical, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, supernatural, dysfunctional family, paranormal, family problems, supernatural horror, mysticism, financial problem, possession, genie, demonic possession
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary ...
Plot: evil spirit, supernatural horror, child, supernatural, fear, danger, female ghost, vengeful ghost, mansion, ritual, mysticism, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.1
 88
Sleep Tight (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A horror anthology following a young woman determined to document the first hand accounts of people who have survived unimaginable horrors that range from the real to the supernatural. The deeper she gets in collecting the stories of these survivors ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, mystical, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: survival horror, paranormal phenomena, female protagonist, sadistic horror, memories, confronting the past, dark past, paranormal investigation, supernatural horror, tragic past, multiple storylines, mysticism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 3.5
 522
Heebie Jeebies (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.
Style: suspense, mystical, tense, disturbing
Plot: creature, revenge, evil spirit, supernatural power, spirit, mysticism, small town life, abandoned mine, supernatural being, supernatural horror, supernatural, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story: Internet-produced sequel to 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, mystical ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural power, transformation, mysticism, female vampire, vampire slayer, prisoner, vampire hunter, supernatural, nurse, murder, killings ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Stories to Stay Awake (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: "Historias Para No Dormir" is four independent horror stories that pay tribute to the classic format of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, directed by and starring well known names in Spanish cinema, such as Rodrigo Cortés, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: fear, survival, supernatural, supernatural horror, whodunit, good versus evil, death, murder, female nudity, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.4
 270
The Wailer (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, mystical, disturbing
Plot: survival horror, urban legend, paranormal activity, struggle for survival, deathtrap, supernatural, paranormal, mysticism, small town, paranormal phenomena, survival, trapped ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and ...
Style: suspense, mystical, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, hallucination, supernatural, supernatural horror, haunted, paranormal activity, high school life, school, paranormal, schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
Style: scary, rough, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural horror, supernatural, fear, paranormal investigation, survival horror, uncover truth, danger, pursuit, monster, love triangle, on the road ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Devil's Tail (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young nurse begins her shift at an old city hospital. After a strange apparition one of the oldest nurse tells her that a patient, Mr. Moore, entered the hospital a few years ago. His body was completely burned after a fire. Mr. Moore was operated ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, mystical, suspense, anthology
Plot: physician, paranormal phenomena, hospital, paranormal, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, mental patient, undercover, nurse, mysticism
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.5
 13K
The Medium (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, dark, scary ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, medium, found footage, folklore, small town, curse, possessed, woods, black magic, sorcerer, witch, witchcraft ...
Time: 2020s
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.0
 209
Paranormal 911 (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A shocking number of 911 emergencies end in paranormal encounters. Paranormal 911 explores these events through eye-witness accounts of the first responders who lived them. This gripping drama-doc takes viewers into the unexpected paranormal ...
Style: scary, mystical, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: paranormal, paranormal phenomena, demon, ghost, police, violence, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, peril, pursuit, 911, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.1
 244
Lilith (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Demon Lilith punishes men for their indiscretions against women.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: supernatural being, woman, demon, legends and myths, supernatural, female demon, supernatural power, mythical creature, myth, mythology
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.1
 515
Cracked (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, mystical, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural horror, painting, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, supernatural, paranormal activity, paranormal, magical object
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, a graduate student unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.
Style: suspense, gothic horror, mystical, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: cthulhu, deathtrap, fantasy world, mysticism, supernatural horror, nightmare, trap, supernatural, parallel world, cosmic horror, mythical creature, heroine ...
Place: indianapolis indiana, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.9
 5K
Fear Itself (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A television series broken down into thirteen separate sixty-minute films from premiere horror writers and directors.
Style: anthology, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, nightmare comes true, survival, danger, psychopath, murder, monster, haunted by the past, cannibalism, wedding, writers, witchery ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Devil's Trade (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 4 min.
TV show
Story: Three teenagers incur the wrath of a deadly curse when one of them purchases a presumably harmless wooden cross at DevilsTrade.com. After a series of ominous events, they set off on a race to return the cross to its rightful owner and avoid their ...
Style: captivating, mystical, mystic, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: teenager, curse, supernatural, paranormal activity, mysticism, cursed, problem, supernatural horror, paranormal, cursed object, threat, teenage protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Ones You Didn't Burn (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural horror, paranormal, paranormal activity, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, inheritance, supernatural, brother sister relationship, witch, lgbt, addiction, drug use ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Grotesque Mansion (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms ...
Style: mystical, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, urban legend, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, curse, haunted, supernatural, legend, paranormal investigator, paranormal investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Source of Shadows (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This horror anthology film depicts ten tales of horror from twelve visionary directors as they take us on a journey to experience one of humanity’s most carnal fears; the fear of the unknown.
Style: anthology, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: witch, ghost, sailing, survival horror, monster, hunting, paranormal activity, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, paranormal, supernatural horror, home invasion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.9
 120
The Mount 2 (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Gibraltar
Story: A year after the incident at the Mount, the police are still investigating the murders of Philomena and Caroline. The Mount has been cordoned off by the police. However, on Halloween night, a group of teenagers break in. They plan on holding a ...
Style: mystical, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: paranormal, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, paranormal activity
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.0
 426
Valemont (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A teen girl's brother is murdered at Valemont, an elite college on the east coast. Disguised as a student, the girl works undercover to unravel Valemont's dark secrets from within.
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, college, high school, undercover, mysterious death, teenager, murder, teenage girl, murder mystery, supernatural, dracula, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Crooked House (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
Style: anthology, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, ghost story, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, haunted house, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, multiple storylines, vengeful ghost, curse, evil spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mother Krampus (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the myth of Frau Perchta, a witch that comes on the 12 days of Christmas taking children each night.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot: christmas, beast, holiday horror, supernatural, survival horror, curse, xmas, krampus, danger, fear, supernatural power, deadly creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.0
 740
The Cursed (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In this movie spinoff of "The Cursed", reporter Im Jin-Hee receives a mysterious call while on a live radio program - the strange voice warning her about a murder happening soon. After the call, people begin to be murdered left and right. ...
Style: gothic horror, mystical, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, murder, killing spree, serial murder, murder mystery, living dead, reanimated corpse, supernatural power, serial killer, secret, homicidal maniac, mysticism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
AKB Horror Night Adrenaline Nights (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 14 min.
TV show
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, thrilling, mystical ...
Plot: paranormal phenomena, fear, japanese woman, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal activity, mysticism, supernatural horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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