Dead End (2003) | 6.5 | |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) | 7.4 | |
Orphan (2009) | 7.0 | |
The Eye (2002) | 6.6 | |
Thesis (1996) | 7.4 |
Frightening movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant frightening movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out scary, suspenseful, creepy, frightening, serious and suspense films and TV shows about / with macabre, danger, supernatural horror, supernatural, gore, terror, blood, ghost, murder and death plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
frightening
TOP 10 movies tagged as frightening: Shutter (2004), The Ring (2002), The Conjuring (2013), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Grave Encounters (2011), The Witch (2015), The Girl Next Door (2007), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Oculus (2013), The Abandoned (2006).
Best films
New films
Midsommar (2019) | 7.1 | |
Hereditary (2018) | 7.3 | |
The Garden (2017) | 6.6 | |
Green Room (2015) | 7.0 | |
The Stalker (2020) | 4.0 |
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49K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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373K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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551K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, witch, paranormal investigation, fear, possession, psychic, paranormal, haunting, supernatural horror ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 70s, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, mental institution, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, abandoned hospital, paranormal investigator, maze, haunting ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
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297K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
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:
disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, victim, cruelty, helplessness, child molestation, suffering, childhood, violence, abuse ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style:
scary, demonic, satanic, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
supernatural, devil, demon, religion, courtroom, priest, supernatural horror, investigation, demonic possession, exorcism, legal, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
Is relevant ?
139K
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
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, demonic, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, insanity, ghost, zombie, gory, family relations, confined, haunted, danger, survival ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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245K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, road trip, macabre, murder, insanity, police investigation, mind game, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, near future, 80s
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands
Is relevant ?
452K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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190K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that ...
Style:
scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, children, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, macabre, adoption, danger, revenge, redemption ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant ?
250K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Is relevant ?
32K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, tense, christmas horror ...
Plot:
time loop, forest, ghost, supernatural horror, danger, wrong place wrong time, road trip, fear, supernatural, gory, survival, time travel ...
Time:
year 2003
Is relevant ?
195K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Style:
scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
found footage, zombie, fear, trapped, epidemic, videotaping, gory, journalist, infected, blood, plague, infection ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, usa, barcelona, europe
Is relevant ?
442K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place:
london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
Is relevant ?
25K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia
Is relevant ?
116K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, doll, killer doll, gory, evil doll, psychopath, voodoo, macabre, winter, danger, nobody believes ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago
Is relevant ?
100K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant ?
143K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 450 min.
TV show
Story:
An unsettlling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes - and a miracle occurs.
Style:
mystical, scary, suspense, mysterious, spiritual ...
Plot:
vampire, community, supernatural, secret, supernatural horror, priest, religious fanaticism, catholicism, island, paranormal, ex convict, religion ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Is relevant ?
943K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style:
scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience:
kids, manly, adult
Plot:
alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
Is relevant ?
94K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, britain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, creepy, scary ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, murder, female villain, evil child, holy communion, blood, psychopath, child molester, child, female serial killer, mystery killer ...
Time:
year 2016, 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute ...
Style:
suspense, demonic, suspenseful, mockumentary, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
found footage, ghost, supernatural, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, demon, haunted house, macabre, demonic possession, video surveillance, haunting, evil force ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant ?
32K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style:
scary, tense, disturbing, creepy, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, couples, killer child, breaking and entering, stranger, danger, violence, isolation, forest, invasion, teenage life, blood ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
Is relevant ?
20K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, maniac, violent, torture, murder, extreme violence, exploitation, macabre, extreme, violence, blood ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
30K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a ...
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, supernatural, able to see the dead, blindness, hospital, eye, fear, transplant, woman in danger, supernatural ability, transformation ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, thailand
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Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of Confederate soldiers who hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Style:
dark, scary, suspense, suspenseful, frightening ...
Plot:
supernatural, demon, civil war, supernatural ability, torture, gory, monster, black magic, american civil war, ghost, violence, brutality ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
alabama, latin america, usa, mexico
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