Top rated chilling movies with evocative cinematography

Check out today’s highest ranked chilling movies with evocative cinematography! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best chilling movies with evocative cinematography, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Eye (2008)

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.

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2008-02-01 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola

Rating

rating icon 5.798
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #111 for
    for horror movie day
  2. Ranked #151 for
    bloodcurdling
  3. Ranked #160 for
    atmospheric cinematography

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The Eye trailer
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2 The Night House (2021)

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

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2021-07-15 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    like Marrowbone
  2. Ranked #2 for
    gotcha
  3. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically horrifying

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3 La Llorona (2019)

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ominous tone
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slow and plodding
  3. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly slow

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La Llorona trailer
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4 [REC] (2007)

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

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2007-11-23 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Manuela Velasco, Ferrán Terraza

Rating

rating icon 7.195
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #57 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #58 for
    bloodcurdling

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5 The Hole in the Ground (2019)

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

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2019-03-01 | Horror

Cast

Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey

Rating

rating icon 5.616
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    left unexplained
  2. Ranked #2 for
    creepy
  3. Ranked #2 for
    genuinely eerie

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6 Marebito (2004)

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

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2004-05-22 | Horror

Cast

Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    Cosmic Horror
  2. Ranked #113 for
    juicy atmosphere
  3. Ranked #211 for
    wobbly camera work

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Marebito trailer
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7 Widow's Walk (2019)

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.

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2019-10-19 | Horror

Cast

Miranda Raison, Anthony Howell

Rating

rating icon 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    evocative
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unaccountable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    American Gothic

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8 The Medium (2021)

A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

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2021-07-14 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    thrilling climax
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hooked start
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cinema verite

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9 Gretel & Hansel (2020)

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

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2020-01-30 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    visually rich
  2. Ranked #2 for
    grim atmosphere
  3. Ranked #3 for
    like Alice in Wonderland

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Gretel & Hansel trailer
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10 The Mortuary Collection (2020)

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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2020-10-08 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    macabre
  2. Ranked #1 for
    entertaining ride
  3. Ranked #1 for
    pretty neat

Trailer

The Mortuary Collection trailer
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