20 best movies like Red Lights (2012)


List of the best movies like Red Lights (2012): Crimson Peak, The Orphanage, The Returned, An American Haunting, The Illusionist, Vampire Academy, Bad Moon, Beneath Still Waters, The Bye Bye Man, Black Butler.

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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: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountrySpain, Mexico
Duration01:45

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain, Canada

    In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

    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: 7.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic
    Duration01:50

    With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:19

      One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom

      Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:22

      When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:59

      In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of death Ceil strikes a deal with a demon, his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ceil is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
      Duration01:27

      Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

      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: 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: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:46

      When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryAustralia

      It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:25

      Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
      Duration01:33

      Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:05

      Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the investigation becomes more and more perilous, they are forced to confront the sins of their pasts, as well as contend with the paranormal consequences of trespassing to the other side.

      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: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
        Duration01:55

        A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:50

        Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:55

        Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
        CountryCanada

        Lacey, a socially detached loner is cursed with immortality and a never-ending tedium of existence. In her attempts to keep her compulsions in check, she seeks out the darkest souls humanity has to offer. Lacey must now face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:36

          Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom

          A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration02:24

          A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:50

          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.

          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: 4.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryItaly, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom

          A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
          Duration01:38

          After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:18

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

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada

          Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryDenmark, France
          Duration01:24

          The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:00

          In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

          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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:37

          Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryJapan

          The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:26

          Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
          Duration02:02

          Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA, Germany

          Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryFrance

          Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse...

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:29

            About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
            CountryJapan

            Now a member of Anteiku, Ken Kaneki grows closer to the ghouls around him. Determined to protect his new home against anti-ghoul forces, he trains his powers in secret. But when the infamous gourmet, Shu Tsukiyama, wishes to savour some half-ghoul flavour, Kaneki's training is put to test of a lifetime.




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