20 best movies like Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

List of the best movies like Paranormal Activity 3 (2011): The Guardian, An American Haunting, The Eye, The Hearse, Last Shift, The Pact II, Crimson Peak, The Forest, Hide and Seek, Burnt Offerings.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration01:23

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:32

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the armoury. But unbeknownst to her, cult leader John Michael Paymon has haunted the department ever since he committed suicide in custody. Jessica is about to find out just how dangerous he still is, all alone on the graveyard shift.............

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:31

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:26

Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:37

David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration01:56

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.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
Duration01:33

After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:42

For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:44

    A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
    CountryUSA

    Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:18

    Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:43

    Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:10

    Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fear that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:26

    Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:37

    A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

      A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

      Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryItaly

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      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:49

      A young nurse takes care of elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Russia
      Duration02:28

      ​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySweden

      Sarah, her boyfriend and his five-year-old son Lucas move into a semi-detached house. But the other side is haunted by something evil, who wants Lucas at all costs. Inspired by real events.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:09

      Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

      Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

        In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:01

        A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Iceland

        In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.




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