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| The Shining (1980) | 8.4 |
Slow burn movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant slow burn movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, weird, scary and suspense films and TV shows about / with slow burn, macabre, murder, death, blood, storytelling, supernatural, danger, serial killer and deadly plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as slow burn: Lake Mungo (2008), The Wailing (2016), The Shining (1980), Noroi (2005), The Witch (2015), Time and Him are Just Right (2022), Burnt Offerings (1976), Magic (1978), The Changeling (1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999).
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List of slow burn movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help ...
Style:
mockumentary, psychological horror, scary, creepy, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, found footage, haunted house, slow burn, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, family life, drowning, lake, psychic, uncover truth, investigation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Style:
disturbing, scary, atmospheric, spooky, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, police, murder, supernatural, small town, shaman, possession, curse, zombie, daughter, murder mystery, priest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
south korea, korea, tokyo
Is relevant?
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Style:
scary, tense, serious, satanic, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
found footage, curse, occult, demon, investigation, slow burn, folklore, fear, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, journalist, danger ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The stubborn, adorable Lin Xi approaches the crafty top student Ji Jun Xing on purpose. Throughout their "opportunistic" friendship, feelings bloom between the two as they are always there for each other. Not only do they make friends, but ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, cute, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school romance, friends to lovers, slow burn, youth, friendship, misunderstanding, campus, high school life, heartwarming, relationships, male female relationship, couples ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Style:
gothic, scary, sexy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, old dark house, macabre, haunted, psychosis, losing-it hero, obsession, mansion, old woman, haunted house, cemetery, possession ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Style:
scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
evil doll, ventriloquist, alter ego, ventriloquist dummy, magic, doll, slow burn, split personality, rise and fall, puppet, objects come to life, toys ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Style:
suspense, gothic, creepy, spooky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, isolated house, macabre, haunted, mansion, musician, supernatural, senator, death of wife, revenge, murder ...
Time:
year 1980, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place:
seattle, usa, new york, washington d.c., washington state ...
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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
Is relevant?
98K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, sadism, extreme, violent, psychopath, murder, psychotic woman, sex, widower, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
67K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, creature feature, forest, woods, sasquatch, cryptozoology, bigfoot, camping, lost in the woods, slow burn, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, obsession, kidnapping, kidnapped, psychopath, buried alive, spider, killer, slow burn, serial killer, hostage, missing girl ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, washington state
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, police detective, protagonist as suspect, murder, dead prostitute, morgue, frame up, danger, riddles and clues, murder suspect, friend ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in ...
Style:
bloody, disturbing, sexual, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence, vampire, sex, gory, cannibal, cannibalism, murder, wanting to die, chambermaid, bloodbath, flesh eating, masturbation ...
Time:
year 2001, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, ghana
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A sniper returns home from Afghanistan to his small Northern Ontario town. Confronted with the mundane reality of everyday life he longs for the release provided by shooting. Slowly his need for regimented military discipline takes over leading to ...
Style:
suspenseful, gloomy, dramatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
sniper, slow burn, small town, discipline, army, soldier, veteran, ptsd, ex military, military, weapons, military life ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998. For more ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
slow burn, small town, working class, loss, investigation, memory, grief, blue collar, secrets, cold case, relationship problems, secret ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A painful break up prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio start the weekend in high spirits but it soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending, dark comedy ...
Plot:
slow burn, friendship, female protagonist, secrets, betrayal, manipulation, domestic drama, english countryside, female friendship, intimate, mistrust, unsettling ...
Place:
london
Is relevant?
85K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic ...
Style:
suspense, art house, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger, aspiring writer, childhood friend, rural setting, stalking, tragic love, bare breasts ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A wealthy heir and an art student enter a transactional arrangement that slowly deepens into real affection, forcing them to face what they truly want.
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, tension, moody
Plot:
slow burn, chemistry, intimate, class differences, art student, lgbtq, bittersweet, self discovery, identity, healing, slice of life, secret past ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Miou Aida and Haruki Serizawa might seem like polar opposites to those around them, but as the two third-years prepare to end their high school experience, they couldn't have been been closer. While Miou is a shy and reserved member of the ...
Style:
anime, captivating, romantic, entertaining, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
relationships, slice of life, high school, couple relations, love and romance, friends, love affair, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, first love, crush, young love ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic, thrilling, romantic drama ...
Plot:
first love, crush, love story, fall in love, love affair, youth, brother sister relationship, slow burn, childhood friend, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship ...
Place:
asia, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of ...
Style:
surreal, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, brother brother relationship, surrealism, supernatural, suicide, animal abuse, nudity, abusive mother, cemetery, molestation, hair loss ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
idaho, usa, midwest
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Is relevant?
87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style:
psychological horror, horrifying, psychological thriller, spooky, creepy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
missing husband, tunnel, missing person, grief, cosmic horror, evil force, woman in danger, investigator, presumed dead, hopes, back from the dead, creature ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
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