Fright movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant fright movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out dark, suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with fright, fear, violence, danger, suspense, death, ghost, murder, panic and evil plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as fright: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Hell House LLC (2015), The Conjuring (2013), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), Goosebumps (1995), Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000), The Houses October Built (2014), The Den (2013), Reminiscence: The Beginning (2014), Apocalyptic (2014).

List of fright movies

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.
Style: ridiculous, breathtaking, biting, exciting, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: jungle, mission, team, zoologist, adventurer, game, magic, friendship, video game, high school, archaeologist, time travel ...
Time: jurassic, year 1996, year 2016, 90s, 2010s
Place: new hampshire, hawaii
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 6.4
 17K
Hell House LLC (2015)
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, disturbing, slasher, scary, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, halloween, haunted house, dark secret, supernatural, house, hanging, basement, mysterious death, group of friends, abandoned hotel, investigation ...
Time: 2000s
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 7.5
 519K
The Conjuring (2013)
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: teens
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, paranormal investigation, witch, fear, exorcism, paranormal, supernatural horror, investigation, house, psychic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1968, 60s ...
Place: rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, splatter ...
Plot: tourist, mutant, stranded, nuclear power plant, virus, suspense, abandoned building, radiation, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, brutality ...
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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 7.6
 14K
Goosebumps (1995)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, spooky ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot: supernatural, youth, teenager, fright, good versus evil, surrealism, child in peril, ghost, survival, heroes, deadly creature, monster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)
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, sweet, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: kindness, ghost, friendship, christmas, fright, good versus evil, fish out of water, young heroes, misfit, rivalry, supernatural, mischievous children ...
Place: new york
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The Houses October Built (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a ...
Style: scary, dark, rough, bleak, slasher ...
Plot: halloween, found footage, haunted house, fear, suspense, buried alive, road trip, clown, group of friends, violence, death, house ...
Place: texas, new orleans
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 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
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: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, panic, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop, cyberspace, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Reminiscence: The Beginning (2014)
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, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: parallel world, black hole, darkness, another dimension, time travel, experiment gone awry, fright, disorder, couples, couple relations, small town, inventions and discoveries ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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 4.6
 1K
Apocalyptic (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
Style: dark, scary, suspenseful
Plot: found footage, fear, evil, murder, violence, cult, panic, investigation, fright, forest, death, suspense ...
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Tales of Halloween (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff ...
Style: dark, disturbing, absurd, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, witch, murder, alien, death, suspense, dead, ghoul, ghost story, demon, violence, fight ...
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 5.0
 242
Volcano (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating
Plot: disaster, volcanic eruption, fire, escape, panic, fear, lava, fright, rescue, suspense, natural disaster, chaos ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.8
 249K
It Follows (2014)
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, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, evil, macabre, suspense, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, death, coming of age, sex, supernatural being ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, detroit, california, usa, plymouth
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 3.6
 1K
Boo! (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A torn suburban family refuses to heed the warning of an innocent prank left upon them which causes an unknown supernatural force to wreak havoc.
Style: dark, scary, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: halloween, children, curse, prank, mysticism, fear, survival, life & death, vengeance, macabre, parents and children, paranormal activity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Fender Bender (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in ...
Style: slasher, rough, bleak, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, home invasion, violence, psychopath, evil man, terror, mercilessness, brutality, suspense, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: new mexico
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I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital ...
Style: rough, scary, suspenseful, dark, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, stripper, twists and turns, sadism, mistaken identity, supernatural, small town, mind game, race against time, disorder, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Amityville Haunting (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, psychotronic
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, haunted house, ghost, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, husband wife relationship, violence, murder, mysterious death, paranormal activity, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
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, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, woman in danger, high school, supernatural ability, teenage life, fright, abandoned house, bullying, group sex, technology ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, busan, asia
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In Memorium (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A man dying of cancer installs a series of cameras in his home to try to capture a paranormal entity that has been causing issues in the home before he dies.
Style: spooky
Plot: found footage, ghost, suspense, paranormal, mysterious noise, violence, female nudity, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fear, death, panic ...
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 405K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, deadly creature, fear, survival horror, destruction, chaos, suspense ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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 5.1
 912
Naked Massacre (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Style: slasher, controversial, cult film
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, nurse, murder, suspense, ira, massacre, rape and revenge, irish republican army, killer, needing money, forced sexual contact ...
Place: ireland, belfast, northern ireland
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The Bake Street Hauntings (2011)
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, captivating, tense, psychotronic
Plot: found footage, haunted house, fear, ghost, married couple, paranormal activity, husband wife relationship, darkness, panic, house, paranormal, suspense ...
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 4.6
 469
Encounters (2014)
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: suspenseful, bleak, spooky, light, psychotronic ...
Plot: found footage, peril, cruelty, risk, confusion, disappearance, unconsciousness, evil alien, suspense, alien, disorientation, evil being ...
Place: sweden
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 6.6
 237K
Life (2017)
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, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time: future, near future
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The Dark Tapes (2016)
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: scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological, dark fairy tale ...
Plot: found footage, paranormal, suspense, experiment, panic, evil force, ghost, peril, brutality, cruelty, dark secret, video surveillance ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
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Babar: The Movie (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot: elephant, self confidence, rescue mission, symbol, rhinoceros, village, soldier, queen, princess, king, prince, singer ...
Is relevant ?
 4.2
 2K
Evil Things (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, stalking, missing person, violence, murder, group of friends, survival, trap, fear, isolation, travel, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Land Before Time (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 69 min.
Story: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, ...
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, colourful, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot: dinosaur, friendship, tyrannosaurus rex, animals, earthquake, disney, talking animals, childhood, natural disaster, babies and infants, wilderness, rescue ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, 80s
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 7.6
 379K
Inside Man (2006)
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, tricky, surprise ending, confusing, tense ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, hostage, robbery, police, bank, thief, perfect crime, master criminal, manipulation, swat team, twists and turns ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge ...
Style: feel good, colourful, light, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot: christmas, holiday, ghost, disney, redemption, scrooge, snow, time travel, greed, christmas eve, regret, life changing experience ...
Time: future, victorian era, 1840s, 19th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom
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