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Lingering (2020)
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Original name: 호텔 레이크
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Yoo-mi searches out her mother's friend at a hotel to drop off her younger sister, she falls into unexpected mystery and horror.
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
hotel, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, survival horror, survival, supernatural, macabre, hostage, death, gory, evil, insanity, isolation, hallucination, little girl, motel, danger, painting, mind game, confined, atmosphere, hotel room, brainwashing, hotel manager, haunted by the past ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and tense films with plots about survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, ghost, murder and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Mystery and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Lingering: Dirty Fears (2020), Doses of Horror (2018), Bornless Ones (2016), The Black Gloves (2017), Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After an escaped mental patient takes possession and care of a mysterious mountain motel, what was once a place for rest and relaxation becomes a place of nightmares.
Style:
scary, suspense, creepy, dark, confusing ...
Plot:
locked in a room, escaped mental patient, psychopath, trap, terror, motel, murder, plot twist, brainwashing, male protagonist, profanity, trapped ...
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95%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly ...
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
driven mad, psychiatric ward, research, doctors and patients, twists and turns, split personality, ghost, madhouse, mysticism, murder, survival, brutality ...
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44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set one year after the events of Hell House LLC II, the hotel is on the verge of being torn down when it is purchased by billionaire Russell Wynn as the new home for his popular interactive show, Insomnia. He invites journalist Venessa Sheppard and ...
Style:
mockumentary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
hotel, found footage, halloween, interview, old dark house, killer clown, clown, ghost, fire, supernatural horror, supernatural, motel ...
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42%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But what they don't know is that the house kept a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one.
Style:
suspense, rough, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
possession, paranormal, supernatural, exorcism, characters killed one by one, obsession, technology, trap, money, haunting, ghost story, estate ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A psychologist becomes obsessed with the disappearance of his young patient, and the menacing owl-headed figure that plagued her nightmares.
Style:
gothic, scary, twist ending, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, murder, split personality, survival, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, girl, hostage, fear, blood, ghost ...
Place:
scotland, united kingdom, europe, scottish highlands
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, creepy ...
Plot:
mysterious disappearance, disappearance, paranormal activity, haunted ship, uncover truth, mother daughter relationship, missing person, isolation, sea, supernatural, paranormal investigation, danger ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Russel Brody, a one-time successful playwright, works diligently on a follow-up play that could land him back in the spotlight he so early craves. With a baby on the way, however, and a strained marriage, stress and frustration take center stage. ...
Style:
suspenseful, splatter, suspense, stylized, creepy ...
Plot:
supernatural, spirit, male female relationship, writers, haunting, gory, violence, inheritance, estate, pregnant girlfriend, ghost story, trap ...
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35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
curse, paranormal activity, fear, isolation, death, danger, survival, pursuit, violence, house, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Horror - Six innocent campers are outward bound for an idyllic adventure in the backwoods of Oregon. On the way, they stumble upon a creepy gas station attendant who harbors a grisly secret -- the kind of secret that will cost some of the teens ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, danger, murder, legends and myths, gory, backwoods, supernatural horror, isolation, fear, killer, death ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, mind game, danger, supernatural, youth, social misfits, serial killer, gory, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 1930s
Place:
south carolina
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army life. Myeong-hoon knows there to be a large population of people to be taking part in this but he ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
camp, killing, society, sadist, playing god, brutality, youth, deathtrap, mind game, characters killed one by one, vengeance, vigilante ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
32%
991
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a new stewardess joins the night shift crew of the train, she find that some mystic events become occur during the train night run. As the film goes we see that the train has more hidden secrets that lead to a suspicion that it might be linked ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot:
ghost, danger, journalism, survival, death, uncover truth, murder, violence, teenage life, save the day, transvestism, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, isolation, fear, hotel, stephen king, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, confined ...
Time:
year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Story:
Mizuki, a female doctor working at a certain hospital, is immersed in the treatment of Aimi, a high school girl infected with SDX (Viral and Sexually Sensitive Disease). During the treatment, Mizuki realizes that SDX is artificially made. However, ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sexy nurse, sexual harassment, doctors and patients, women, escaped mental patient, brutality, psychiatric ward, hospital, isolation, meme, blood, madhouse ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is a sequel to Haunted Dormitory: White Paper Girl
Style:
creepy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, disappearance, macabre, doll, spirit, mysterious disappearance, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, ghost girl, paranormal investigation ...
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30%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
britain
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
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A girl with no home takes a seemingly perfect opportunity to move in with a Professor and his housemaid in a beautiful and secluded mansion. However, the mysteries pile up when the housemaid calls the shots, prevents Young Hee from meeting the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
korea
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
mummy, archaeologist, good versus evil, vengeful ghost, danger, investigation, ghost, supernatural, countryside, female writer, showdown, reincarnation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychiatric ward, haunted by the past, murder, characters killed one by one, mental institution, isolation, deadly creature, abandoned hospital, memory loss, group, nudity, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, mirror, demon, escape attempt, ghost, supernatural, curse, a vision, investigation, broken mirror, sister sister relationship, macabre ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A young woman shows up on her cousin's doorstep after a ten year absence. As dark events from the past resurface, someone in the woods follows their every move.
Style:
surreal, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
human experiment, confined, mind game, trap, brutality, violence, trapped, survival, vigilante, sadist, captivity, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A journalist from an Eastern European country arrives in Paris to start a tour of European capitals. His intention is to make a documentary about the European dream. Between fascination and difficulty of adaptation, Sorgoï struggles to complete his ...
Style:
mockumentary, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, nightmare, extreme, insanity, tourism, violence, sociopath, drunkenness, homeless, crazy, craziness, supernatural ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Terror lurks in the old orphanage, beneath a disused London hospital - a Seventeeth Century malevolence, the Plague Doctor, has returned to complete his evil masterpiece
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, ghost, plague, curses spells and rituals, danger, mad scientist, reincarnation, supernatural, supernatural ability, archaeologist, trapped, isolation ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 17th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While Suzaki Saika (Ashida Mana) is hospitalised for poor health, her father, Tamotsu (Totsugi Shigeyuki) feels torn that he has to leave here and go on a business trip. A portrait of Saika’s late mother is placed beside her bed. Her mother had ...
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
panic, apparition, poltergeist, ghost, paranormal activity, black magic, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dark secret, haunting, tragedy, haunted ...
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26%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Emily Burns is being held captive in a room with no idea as to why or how she got there. Determined to escape and return to her daughter and husband, Emily discovers clues within the room that help explain what she's doing there. They even ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
survival horror, captive, memory loss, virus, hallucination, amnesia, murder, confined, torture, isolation, game of death, brutality ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Family tensions between a brother and sister with psychic powers threaten to tear apart the filming of an episode of a paranormal reality TV show. But simmering emotions may be the least of the crew's problems...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal, school, survival, paranormal investigation, supernatural, peril, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil, undercover, evil, ghost ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dirty little secrets are exposed when five friends become stranded at an abandoned motel haunted by a dark secret of its own.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, disturbing, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, motel, paranormal activity, redneck, little girl, riddles and clues, danger, fear, death, graphic violence, supernatural, brutality ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During a fun-filled getaway at a remote lake, teenager Kim (Dominique Swain) and her friends unwittingly unleash a murderous spirit when they make the mistake of playing the game 'Dead Mary' in this horror story. The body count rises as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
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