| Gremlins (1984) | 7.3 | |
| Child's Play (1988) | 6.7 | |
| Candyman (1992) | 6.7 | |
| The Exorcist (1973) | 8.1 | |
| Evil Dead II (1987) | 7.7 |
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, slasher, frightening, dark, suspenseful and creepy films and TV shows about / with blood, macabre, murder, brutality, supernatural, danger, gore, dialogue, violence and death plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as frightening: 28 Days Later (2002), The Girl Next Door (2007), Eden Lake (2008), The Descent (2005), The Conjuring (2013), Housebound (2014), Oculus (2013), Dead End (2003), Grave Encounters (2011), Them (2006).
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538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
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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, psychological, frightening, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, violence, victim, physical abuse, cruelty, helplessness, abuse, childhood, unsettling ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america, usa
Is relevant?
108K
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:
brutal, suspense, bad ending, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, torture, camping, chase, forest, youth, fear, gory, revenge, teenager, maniac, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, england, britain
Is relevant?
270K
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, suspenseful, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, cave, survival horror, trapped, survival, creature, fear, expedition, claustrophobia, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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616K
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, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Style:
scary, horror comedy, creepy, frightening, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, house arrest, haunted, female protagonist, plot twist, dark humor, parents and children, ghost, police investigation, blood, danger, halloween ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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149K
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, psychological thriller, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, mirror, monster, paranormal, hallucination, supernatural horror, haunting, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, ghost, demon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
35K
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, christmas horror, twist ending, clever, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, time loop, fear, forest, supernatural horror, wrong place wrong time, road trip, danger, supernatural, lost in the woods, gory, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
year 2003
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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, gothic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, paranormal investigation, mental institution, claustrophobia, paranormal investigator, maze, abandoned hospital, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
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34K
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, creepy, clever, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, stranger, violence, couples, breaking and entering, danger, forest, killer child, isolation, teenage life, invasion, violent ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
Is relevant?
215K
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, dark, suspense, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
found footage, fear, zombie, trapped, supernatural horror, epidemic, gory, nightmare, escapades, infected, videotaping, virus ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, usa, barcelona, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
creepy, spooky, suspenseful, frightening, gothic ...
Plot:
ritual, satanic cult, supernatural, female protagonist, macabre, satanic ritual, haunted house, devil, sacrifice, lunar eclipse, female college student, religious cult ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
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400K
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, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, life is a bitch, supernatural horror, death, twists and turns, urban legend, female protagonist, danger, investigation, curse, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, astoria oregon, washington state, fictional island
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53K
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, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, ghost, supernatural horror, photographer, supernatural, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, secret lover, spirit, darkroom, blood ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, 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:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
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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 ...
Is relevant?
131K
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:
scary, slasher, bloody, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children, adult
Plot:
serial killer, doll, killer doll, psychopath, gory, evil doll, macabre, blood, murder, dark humor, voodoo, black magic ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago
Is relevant?
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, demonic, frightening, creepy, scary ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural horror, insanity, ghost, zombie, gory, family relations, confined, haunted, survival, danger, woman in danger ...
Time:
60s, year 1966
Place:
russia, moscow russia, new jersey
Is relevant?
109K
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, bloody, frightening, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant?
99K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
495K
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, demonic, classic horror, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
religion, demon, exorcism, priest, supernatural, devil, demonic possession, possession, occult, supernatural horror, exorcist, crisis of faith ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., persia, iraq, usa, new york ...
Is relevant?
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:
creepy, slasher, frightening, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, murder, female villain, killing spree, holy communion, evil child, blood, child, female serial killer, child molester ...
Time:
year 1961, year 2016, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Is relevant?
22K
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, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm.
Style:
slasher, frightening, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibal, survival, cannibalism, lesbian cunnilingus, blood, sex scene, murder, winter, graphic violence, eaten alive, strong violent content, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, creepy, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, supernatural horror, survival, insanity, torture, macabre, ghost town, good versus evil, revenge, mysterious place ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, america, usa, canada
Is relevant?
438K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, maniac, small town, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
476K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, frightening, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, rite, isolated community, pagan, sect, female protagonist, burned alive, human sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, new york, eastern europe
Is relevant?
415K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
haunted house, afterlife, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, seance, able to see the dead, haunted ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
america, usa, new england, connecticut
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