The match
His House
2020UK★ 6.4subtitled
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Close, not exact
The Shining, but for the survival against impossible odds
Nothing in the catalog nails this hook as hard as The Shining does, but the films below come honestly close.
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Ghostland
2018France★ 7.4subtitled
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...
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Veronica
2017Spain★ 6.2subtitled
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
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Onibaba
1964Japan★ 7.7subtitled
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
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The Babadook
2014Australia★ 6.5subtitled
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
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Ju-on: The Grudge
2002Japan★ 6.8subtitled
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
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Let the Right One In
2008Sweden★ 7.5subtitled
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.