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Midsommar(2019)

NR
| 2h 28min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 3,167 votes)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Directed by Ari Aster - With Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, ...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,184 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Directed by André Øvredal - With Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris
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The Ritual(2017)

1h 34min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 1,270 votes)

A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

Directed by David Bruckner - With Rafe Spall, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton
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Antlers(2021)

R
| 1h 39min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 456 votes)

A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.

Directed by Scott Cooper - With Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, Amy Madigan, ...

The Wailing(2016)

NR
| 2h 36min | Horror, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 701 votes)

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.

Directed by Na Hong-jin - With Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jeong-min, Jun Kunimura, Chun Woo-hee, Jang So-yeon
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The Medium(2021)

2h 9min | Horror, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 282 votes)

A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun

Troll Hunter(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 685 votes)

A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

Directed by André Øvredal - With Otto Jespersen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Mørck, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Hans Morten Hansen, Knut Nærum, ...
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The Hole in the Ground(2019)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 296 votes)

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Directed by Lee Cronin - With Seána Kerslake, Simone Kirby, James Cosmo, Steve Wall, Eoin Macken, Kati Outinen, ...
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The Wicker Man(1973)

1h 34min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 612 votes)

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Directed by Robin Hardy - With Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Woodward, Lindsay Kemp, ...
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Blair Witch(2016)

R
| 1h 30min | Thriller, Horror
2.6/5 (with 903 votes)

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

Directed by Adam Wingard - With Valorie Curry, Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune
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Children of the Corn(1984)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 418 votes)

A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.

Directed by Fritz Kiersch - With Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R. G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains
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Gretel & Hansel(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 609 votes)

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Directed by Oz Perkins - With Sophia Lillis, Alice Maud Krige, Jessica De Gouw, Charles Babalola, Samuel Leakey
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The Wicker Man(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 570 votes)

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Directed by Neil LaBute - With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, ...

Apostle(2018)

2h 10min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 617 votes)

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

Directed by Gareth Evans - With Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Bill Milner, Kristine Froseth, Michael Sheen, ...
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2(2000)

R
| 1h 30min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
2.1/5 (with 343 votes)

Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.

Directed by Joe Berlinger - With Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen, Tristine Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Raynor Scheine, ...
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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil(2018)

1h 38min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 235 votes)

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

Directed by Paul Urkijo - With Kandido Uranga, Eneko Sagardoy, Ramón Agirre, Gorka Aguinagalde, Josean Bengoetxea, Jose Ramon Argoitia, ...
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The Lair of the White Worm(1988)

R
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
2.9/5 (with 94 votes)

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

Directed by Ken Russell - With Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi, Paul Brooke, Gina McKee, ...
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Impetigore(2019)

1h 46min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 74 votes)

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

Directed by Joko Anwar - With Tara Basro, Marissa Anita, Asmara Abigail, Christine Hakim, Ario Bayu, Faradina Mufti, ...

Witchfinder General(1968)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, History, Horror
3.3/5 (with 93 votes)

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

Directed by Michael Reeves - With Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Rupert Davies, Robert Russell, Wilfrid Brambell, ...

A Field in England(2013)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, History, Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 104 votes)

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

Directed by Ben Wheatley - With Julian Barratt, Michael Smiley, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando
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Kill List(2011)

NR
| 1h 35min | Horror, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 321 votes)

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Directed by Ben Wheatley - With Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring, Emma Fryer
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Hellbender(2021)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

A teen and her mother live simply in a home in the woods, spending their time making metal music. A chance encounter with a fellow teen causes her to uncover a connection between her family and witchcraft, which causes a rift with her mother.

Directed by Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, John Adams - With Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams, John Adams

Häxan(1922)

1h 45min | Documentary, Horror, History
3.8/5 (with 149 votes)

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

Directed by Benjamin Christensen - With Clara Pontoppidan, Oscar Stribolt, Benjamin Christensen, Alice O'Fredericks, Elith Pio, Poul Reumert, ...
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Hagazussa(2018)

1h 42min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 95 votes)

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.

With Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky, Haymon Maria Buttinger
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Kuroneko(1968)

1h 40min | Horror, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

Directed by Kaneto Shindō - With Nakamura Kichiemon II, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Hideo Kanze, ...

Viy(1967)

1h 17min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 83 votes)

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

Directed by Konstantin Yershov, Gueorgui Kropatchev - With Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Stepan Shkurat, Aleksey Glazyrin, Mykola Yakovchenko, Dmitry Kapka, ...

The Devil Rides Out(1968)

G
| 1h 36min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Nike Arrighi, Charles Gray, Ahmed Khalil, ...

The Borderlands(2013)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 95 votes)

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

Directed by Elliot Goldner - With Gordon Kennedy
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The Blood on Satan's Claw(1971)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.

Directed by Piers Haggard - With Patrick Wymark, Barry Andrews, James Hayter, Michele Dotrice, Wendy Padbury, Linda Hayden, ...
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Wake Wood(2011)

1h 30min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 80 votes)

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.

Directed by David Keating - With Timothy Spall
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