Scared movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant scared movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out terrifying, suspenseful, spooky, scary, serious and suspense films and TV shows about / with scared, fear, cabin, terror, danger, macabre, blood, gore, monster and deadly plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as scared: Jeepers Creepers (2001), The Exorcist (1973), The Descent (2005), The Ring (2002), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Grudge (2004), The Thing (1982), Paranormal Activity (2007), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Jaws (1975).

List of scared movies

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Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, dark, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, macabre, supernatural, serial killer, demon, chase, scarecrow, dead teenager, deadly creature, characters murdered one by one, scared, death ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
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, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
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, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
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 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
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, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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, dark, independent film, mockumentary ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: found footage, witch, supernatural, urban legend, woods, fear, folk horror, survival, lost in the woods, wilderness, videotaping, panic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1994
Place: maryland, usa
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 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, demonic ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, paranormal activity, fear, ghost, macabre, panic, videotaping, demon, found footage, demonic possession, evil force ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: america, san diego california, usa, los angeles, california
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, macabre, massacre, murder, chainsaw, american horror, psychopath, masked killer, cannibalism, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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 8.1
 655K
Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
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 7.3
 178K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, psychic, haunted, suburban life, haunting, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, children ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: california
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, massacre, psychopath, torture, chainsaw, murder, gory, insanity, masked killer, violence, human monster, backwoods ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, latin america, mexico
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 6.8
 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
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 7.6
 203K
The Birds (1963)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. ...
Style: surreal, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, dark ...
Plot: bird, bird attack, paranoia, disaster, killer animal, survival, animal attack, small town, creature feature, unsolved mystery, dangerous animal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
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, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
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 6.5
 114K
Pet Sematary (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At ...
Style: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: zombie, macabre, stephen king, supernatural horror, indian burial ground, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, family in danger, murder, supernatural, gory ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, chicago, new england
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 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
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, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style: scary, demonic, satanic, suspense, dark ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: supernatural, devil, demon, religion, courtroom, priest, supernatural horror, investigation, demonic possession, exorcism, legal, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
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 7.0
 49K
Shutter (2004)
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, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
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 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
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 6.7
 44K
Inside (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, suspense, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, home invasion, female psychopath, danger, survival, torture, murder, insanity, extreme ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 7.4
 195K
REC (2007)
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, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: found footage, zombie, fear, trapped, epidemic, videotaping, gory, journalist, infected, blood, plague, infection ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, usa, barcelona, europe
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 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
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 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
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, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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