| Mask (1985) | 7.2 | |
| Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999) | 8.3 | |
| Wonder (2017) | 7.9 | |
| The Den (2013) | 6.0 | |
| Cloverfield (2008) | 7.0 |
Scare movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant scare movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, dark and psychological films and TV shows about / with scared, fright, fear, danger, death, panic, violence, murder, darkness and blood plots mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as scare: The Conjuring (2013), Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000), One Missed Call 3: Final (2006), Hell House LLC (2015), Paranormal Entity (2009), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), The Bake Street Hauntings (2011), Encounters (2014), Life (2017), The Dark Tapes (2016).
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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: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kibosh, supreme ruler of all ghosts, decrees that casper must scare at least one person before Christmas Day so Casper visits Kriss, Massachusetts where he meets the Jollimore family and sets out to complete his mission. As usual, kindhearted Casper ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, christmas horror, sweet, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
holiday, ghost, friendship, christmas, scared, good versus evil, fish out of water, young heroes, misfit, rivalry, supernatural, rescue ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Emiri, a timid high school girl, is bullied mercilessly by her classmates, but when her friend, Asuka, stands up for her, Asuka becomes the target of the bullying instead. Emiri, not wanting to be bullied again, avoids Asuka. Worn down, Asuka ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, curses spells and rituals, cell phone, supernatural, woman in danger, teenage life, supernatural ability, high school, danger, supernatural horror, bullying, scared ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, busan, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Style:
dark, spooky, mockumentary, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, halloween, dark secret, supernatural, mysterious death, abandoned hotel, basement, hanging, investigation, tragic event, night ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, dark ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, paranormal, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, evil, paranormal activity, supernatural power, murder, psychic, woman in danger, supernatural horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young couple accept an offer for $2 million to stay in a haunted house for a week. Based on real footage and events.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, found footage, fear, husband wife relationship, married couple, ghost, paranormal activity, panic, house, danger, darkness, paranormal ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
Style:
bleak, suspense, suspenseful, light, spooky ...
Plot:
disappearance, found footage, peril, danger, unconsciousness, risk, confusion, cruelty, evil alien, alien invasion, jeopardy, woods ...
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275K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, mars, space, space station, space travel, space exploration, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, alien creature, first contact, death ...
Time:
2010s, near future, year 2017, future
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Style:
dark, anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal, ghost, paranormal activity, evil force, panic, experiment, danger, brutality, peril, demon, food ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by ...
Style:
serious, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, woods, stalking, missing person, danger, violence, murder, group of friends, trap, loss of control, fear, mysterious death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an artist. Ian's a filmmaker. And their love life is off the chain. There's no ...
Style:
realistic, scary, rough, bleak, crying ...
Plot:
found footage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex scene, danger, police, violence, car, desire, abandoned building, exhibitionism, evil force, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
422K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style:
clever, detective, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, bank, bank robbery, hostage, twists and turns, perfect crime, master criminal, plot twist, deception, police detective, caper ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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103K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, teacher, bullying, teenage girl, mass murder, violent, high school, teenager, youth, school, rage ...
Time:
year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon, california
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176K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, trapped, buried alive, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, threat, panic, desperation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style:
suspense, scary, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
witch, found footage, folk horror, urban legend, supernatural, fear, survival, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, panic, forest, wilderness ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
maryland, usa, north america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, found footage, high school, bully, vengeance, misfit, filmmaking, best friend, violence spree, food, high school student ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and their friend Leo go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods, so named because of its legendary haunted past. That night jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, road movie, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, legend, night, camping, danger, death, panic, survival, supernatural, woods, legends and myths, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, hostage, escape attempt, deception, brutality, confined, vengeance, danger, rivalry, twists and turns, domestic disturbance, killing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Goosebumps is a Canadian-American children's horror anthology television series based on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps books. It was one of the two popular television horror anthology children's series in the 1990s.
Style:
anthology, dark fairy tale, dark, sitcom, epic fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
children, scared, middle school, childhood love, goose, haunting, clairvoyant, insect, magic, shape shifting, generation y, lycanthropy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, dark, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
carnival, afterlife, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, car accident, surrealism, nervous breakdown, american horror, boarding house, spirit, coffee ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa, kansas
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, absurd, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, dysfunctional family, farce, radio, dialogue, couples, family relations, nothing goes right, love and romance, disorder, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
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Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
There are worlds, there are humans and there are Others. But there is only one Time which is the border between worlds. What if time breaks down? Reminiscence based on true events and physics, telling the story of a couple that trying to experiment ...
Style:
surreal, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
parallel world, black hole, darkness, another dimension, time travel, imaginary, experiment gone awry, couples, disorder, couple relations, inventions and discoveries, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The film tells about the firefighter, heroically eliminating the consequences of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Style:
rough, depressing, thought provoking, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear power plant, radiation, radiation sickness, nuclear reactor, disaster, firefighting, evacuation, death, accident, hospital, communism, society ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, poland, europe, ukraine ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M"
Style:
anthology, suspense, psychological, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
hardcore, violence, brutality, murder, survival, multiple storylines, life & death, justice, male objectification, courage, animal attack, animal cruelty ...
Is relevant?
290K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, realistic, depressing, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, teenager, coming of age, drug addict, high school, mental illness, lgbt, youth, sex, sexuality, school, teenage life ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, brooklyn new york city, italy, california, singapore ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
Style:
suspense, slasher, dark, suspenseful, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, dead teenager, high school, supernatural, murder, youth, revenge, tragedy, teenage life, social relations, ghost, teenager ...
Time:
year 1993, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
usa, nebraska
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Just as Wes thought his summer couldn't get any worse it got terrifying when he wakes up one morning to find a bloody mess with a letter to add the cherry on top to a confusing puzzle that leads to a gruesome trail of shock and horror.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, fear, murderer, violence, psycho killer, terror, serial murder, darkness, chase, ghost, villain, scared ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, losing-it hero, ghost, haunted by the past, mental illness, danger, mysterious death, supernatural, mysterious character, uncover truth, supernatural ability, doctors and patients ...
Place:
china
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