Movies like Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet (2013)

Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction

Ring 2 (1999)

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction

The Bay (2012)

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction

The Asphyx (1972)

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction

Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction

Noroi: The Curse (2005)

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Cult (2013)

Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so he calls in a fellow exorcist to help. Soon, a reckless ghost hunter enters the fray as the three idols witness a series of terrifying events.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Marebito (2004)

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Paranormal Activity (2009)

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night (2010)

Koichi takes care of his sister, who has recently returned from a trip abroad in the United States as she is not well. While caring for her, he records evidence of ghosts in their home.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Project Almanac (2015)

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)

1st Entry in a mockumentary series from Koji Shiraishi. Depicts a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman".

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/94 (2021)

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Teke Teke (2009)

The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's upper half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Re/Member (2022)

Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous time loop must find the scattered remains of an unknown victim to break the curse and finally see another day.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)

A mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/99 (2022)

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/2 (2013)

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Returner (2002)

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)

Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the Choujin (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko, must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Los visitados (2020)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & science fiction

The Presence (2014)

Hoping to film paranormal activity, three friends break into an abandoned castle, where an evil presence soon hounds them into terror and madness.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

World of Tomorrow (2015)

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Seeding of a Ghost (1983)

After the wife of a taxi driver is raped and killed by two teenage hooligans, he pleads with a sorcerer to lift the hex and exact revenge.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Easter Massacre (2019)

A bad bunny is attacking kids one after the other during the holiday, or is one of the kids behind the killing?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The Little Curse (2024)

Abby and Trent are an aging punk rock couple who inherit an eerie, old house from Abby's eccentric aunt. While giving their friend Ratboy a tour, they discover a hidden trunk in the basement that harbors a sinister secret.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The Witches (1966)

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The Other Side (2019)

In the spring of 1994, a series of mysterious events occur in the small town of Stryhiltsi, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. While several of the town's children go missing, three teenage boys discover a local Soviet-blocked river, which appears to have the ability to send a diver 30 years into the future. When the boys try it out, they find themselves in the Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast in the 2020s, where they find a connection between the local kidnapper and the "time machine" river.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Nightscape (2017)

The motive of NIGHTSCAPE is a TAXI SERIAL KILLER in South Korea from 2004 to 2010. The killer in known as brutal crime, such as keeping the body in the taxi trunk. NIGHTSCAPE shows two faces of ordinary and cruelness the city through an actual crime.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror