20 best movies like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

List of the best movies like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019): Ghostland, A Night of Horror Volume 1, The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It, Girl on the Third Floor, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, I Remember You, The Wailing, Cabin Fever, Pet Sematary, Ghost Story.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:23

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
CountryUSA

Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a little book called "The Evil Thing"

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration01:34

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryIceland
Duration02:39

After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.

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: 3.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

In this grisly remake of the 2002 horror hit, five college chums rent an isolated woodland cabin for a party. But their fun quickly ends when the group is exposed to a hideous flesh-eating virus, and survival becomes the name of the game.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:37

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration03:11

      Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      A young couple moves into what appears to be the perfect home, but when they discover that they will soon become parents, things begin to fall apart. Rachel, the expectant mother, is haunted by a ghost in a red dress, while Kevin, the soon to be father, has frightening nightmares even while he’s awake. The once happy couple is torn apart by horrific events, which all seem to be centered around the birth of their unborn child.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:15

      Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:37

      A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

      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: 4.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
      CountryUSA

      Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
      Duration02:07

      One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son—and, in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.

      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: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France
      Duration02:33

      In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
      CountryUSA

      A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

      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: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:20

      An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.

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

      A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:26

      A social worker dealing with the disappearance of two children fears for her own family after beginning the investigation.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Indonesia

      Devil's Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it's a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:40

      Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:46

      Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:40

      A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Norway, Canada
      Duration01:28

      High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.

      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: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.

      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, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:34

      A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

      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.

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