| 28 Days Later (2002) | 7.5 | |
| The Descent (2005) | 7.2 | |
| The Orphanage (2007) | 7.4 | |
| Alien (1979) | 8.5 | |
| The Conjuring 2 (2016) | 7.3 |
Scary movies and TV shows – page 3
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their ...
Style:
scary, tense, horrifying, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, twists and turns, country house, unfaithful wife, police investigation, nudity, family problems, snake, murder, hospital, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style:
scary, dark, creepy, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, demon, child in peril, ghost, fear, psychic, family in danger, paranormal investigation, haunting, possession ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
england, peru, london
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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: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, mental institution, survival, danger, haunted by the past, murder, ghost, evil spirit, isolation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style:
scary, creepy, cult classic, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, living dead, post apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, blood, zombie attack, terror ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003 ...
Place:
usa, midwest, wisconsin
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296K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The action now takes place miles away from the original location and partly in broad daylight, giving the film an entirely fresh yet disturbing new reality. The infection has left the building. In a clever twist that draws together the plots of the ...
Style:
scary, bloody, harsh, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
wedding, infection, virus, gory, quarantine, religion and supernatural, chainsaw murder, found footage, apocalypse, danger, plague, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe, seattle
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, creepy ...
Plot:
radiation, tourist, nuclear power plant, death, survival, abandoned building, stranded, brutality, nuclear radiation, group of friends, virus, mutant ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style:
scary, bloody, gothic, atmospheric, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, winter, small town, survival, snow, gory, blood, monster, supernatural, bloodsucker, blizzard, zombie ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, oceania, usa
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34K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets
Style:
scary, tense, sexy, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
tunnel, subway, gory, violent, chase, train, brutality, woman in danger, deadly creature, murder, blood, monster ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, england, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
group of friends, virtual reality, technology gone awry, supernatural horror, ghost, teenage life, husband murders wife, supernatural, cursed object, characters killed one by one, murder, survival ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, gory, masked killer, death, group of friends, brutality, massacre, danger, revenge, maniac, camp, videotaped sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place:
texas, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style:
scary, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, gory, supernatural horror, ghost child, confined, machine, inheritance, blood, family in danger, danger ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style:
scary, christmas horror, suspense, creepy, psychological ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
childhood, nightmare, boogeyman, death, fear, haunted by the past, hallucination, childhood trauma, thanksgiving, hometown, gory, ghost ...
Time:
year 2005
Is relevant?
5K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
mind game, support group, revenge, female killer, pregnancy, illness, mental illness, babies and infants, supernatural, home invasion, child, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Is relevant?
93K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A maniacal clown named Art, terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer clown, clown, maniac, halloween, evil clown, psycho killer, sadism, murderer, brutality, dismemberment, torture, macabre ...
Time:
year 2017
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
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, family in danger, human nature, yacht, drowning, danger, social relations, sea, uninhibited rivalry, diving, shipwreck, survival horror ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
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99K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder, insanity, plot twist, religious fanatic, psychopath, childhood, parents and children, punishment, father son relationship, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 1979, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. He and his girlfriend Penny (Sarah Jones) move into a desolate house hoping to make a breakthrough. Then they discover their neighbor, the elusive Mr. Jones. Famous for his haunting ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot:
couples, found footage, privacy invasion, supernatural, danger, isolation, nightmare comes true, scarecrow, couple relations, pagan, house, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
urban legend, halloween, small town, teenager, haunted, old dark house, haunted house, monster, scarecrow, ghost, fear, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, twist ending, psychological, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, gory, home invasion, brutality, torture, macabre, disturbed individual, farmhouse, psycho killer, kidnapping, killing spree, death ...
Time:
year 2003, turn of the century, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france, europe
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328K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, trapped, kidnapping, blind man, murder, breaking and entering, twists and turns, survival, blindness, psychopath, violence, paranoia ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, california, detroit
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become ...
Style:
scary, serious, intense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, monster, archaeologist, creature, archaeology, pyramid, archeological dig, characters killed one by one, tomb, desert, death ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style:
slasher, scary, cult classic, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, summer camp, masked man, killing spree, camp, gory, friday the 13th, murder, psycho killer, sex, serial teen killer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
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194K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted house, supernatural horror, doll, evil doll, demonic possession, death, curses spells and rituals, murder, self sacrifice, suicide ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2000, year 2014 ...
Place:
california, usa, santa monica california, pasadena california
Is relevant?
42K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, medical horror, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, torture, survival, gory, youth, violence, murder, strong violent content, chase, transplant, brutality, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, argentina
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