| Jeepers Creepers (2001) | 6.2 | |
| Shutter (2004) | 7.0 | |
| The Last of Us (2023) | 8.5 | |
| The Grudge (2004) | 5.9 | |
| The Conjuring (2013) | 7.5 |
Scared movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| Haunted Mansion (2023) | 6.0 | |
| Smile 2 (2024) | 6.7 | |
| Lembayung (2024) | 6.3 | |
| Just Beyond (2021) | 6.2 | |
| Red Woods (2021) | 3.6 |
List of scared movies
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
This refresh of the breakthrough series is hosted by Ludacris and custom-created for a new generation. Filled with new stunts inspired by urban legends, popular scary movies and viral videos from today’s cultural zeitgeist, contestants will ...
Style:
disgusting, psychological, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
fear, worry, scared, rivalry, escapades, contests and competitions, emotional breakdown, contest, ordinary people, ambitious, prize, victory ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Six eager students strike out to explore and record live footage of supernatural activity at an abandoned plantation, but one unsettled spirit gives them more than they asked for.
Style:
mockumentary, dark, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, travel, ghost, woods, forest, student, fear, scared, panic, paranormal activity, supernatural, haunting ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Middle school feels like the worst place imaginable, but for Jess, Josh, and Marco, their school may actually be the worst place in this world…or any other!
Style:
anthology, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
crew, ghost, witchery, witch hunt, belief in ghosts, halloween, scared, escapades, alien encounter, seeing ghosts, haunted, alien creature ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
7 People, 7 Hours, 7 Deadly Boxes. Past events have brought them together and they must now figure out why in order to survive.
Style:
slasher, bleak, psychotronic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
survival horror, fear, kidnapped, scared, bondage, survival, sadist, brutality, trapped, violent, mind game, murder ...
Place:
britain
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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
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is ...
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, detective, grindhouse, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, twins, amateur detective, reporter, mental illness, bakery, twin sister, witness, neighbor, hallucination, murder mystery, freakshow ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, canada, quebec, tokyo
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story:
Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.
Style:
creepy, gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
vampire, small town, supernatural, murder, adultery, antique shop, stephen king, mansion, heart attack, dog, child murders a child, priest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new england, maine, usa, texas, new jersey ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style:
scary, gothic, cult classic, creepy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, transformation, psychiatrist, macabre, shapeshifting, creature feature, group therapy, outdoor sex, murder, supernatural, lost in the woods ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Lutz family have managed to flee their home with their lives intact, but before them, another family lived in this house and were caught up in the original evil who weren't so lucky...
Style:
demonic, frightening, scary, suspense, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, incest, dysfunctional family, possession, demonic possession, demon, supernatural, occult, female nudity, sex, brother sister kiss, poltergeist ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
new york state, new york
Is relevant?
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Style:
fairy tale, cult classic, surreal, creepy, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
witch, psychiatry, magic, scarecrow, halloween, robot, stop motion, steampunk, fantasy world, sorcerer, mirror, danger ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 19th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Is relevant?
222K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
68K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Style:
scary, bloody, cult classic, gothic, splatter ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, vampire hunter, vengeance, death, gory, vampire slayer, bloodsucker, female vampire, vampire bite, transformation, violence ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new mexico, mexico
Is relevant?
122K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a ...
Style:
satanic, suspenseful, demonic, apocalyptic, biblical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
devil, supernatural, apocalypse, deal with the devil, satanic ritual, good versus evil, supernatural horror, demon, nightmare, temptation, heroic mission, end of the world ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 70s, year 1979, year 2000 ...
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Is relevant?
410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Style:
psychological, controversial, slasher, psychological thriller, sexual ...
Plot:
home invasion, maniac, psycho killer, psychopath, brutality, serial killer, necrophilia, mental illness, angst, voice over narration, killer as protagonist, prison ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style:
psychological, scary, horrifying, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, murder, supernatural, haunted, death threat, uncover truth, haunted by the past, family in danger, family problems, psychopath, family life ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north dakota, chicago
Is relevant?
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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?
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
creepy, spooky, suspenseful, frightening, gothic ...
Plot:
ritual, satanic cult, supernatural, female protagonist, macabre, satanic ritual, haunted house, devil, sacrifice, lunar eclipse, female college student, religious cult ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, teen, horrifying ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
monster, revenge, dream, nightmare, nightmare comes true, gory, killer, serial killer, nightmare on elm street, death, terror, brutality ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
Is relevant?
62K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
Style:
demonic, spooky, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, supernatural horror, curses spells and rituals, ouija board, spiritualism, haunted house, ghost child, board game, medium, brutality, monster ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
133K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, gothic, creepy, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, loneliness, childhood, first love, blood, gory, friendship, coming of age, supernatural, friends, mysterious character, children ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, italy, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Is relevant?
84K
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, creepy, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, gory, found footage, trapped, quarantine, demon, supernatural horror, demonic possession, supernatural, infection, evil wins ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, demonic, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, ghost, religion, found footage, supernatural, demon, evil spirit, satanic cult, supernatural horror, cursed, curses spells and rituals, paranormal activity ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
somalia, usa, southern usa, louisiana, new orleans ...
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, underground horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
underwater, survival, ocean, shark, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, panic, dangerous animal, death, tourist, diving ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant?
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
Is relevant?
