Top rated foreboding movies on Kanopy

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

1 The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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2019-10-18 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    crazy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #2 for
    berserk

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The Lighthouse trailer
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2 Midsommar (2019)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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2019-07-03 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor

Rating

rating icon 7.162
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly disturbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    horrifying
  3. Ranked #1 for
    disturbing

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Midsommar trailer
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3 Possessor (2020)

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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2020-10-02 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mind twists
  2. Ranked #1 for
    grisly image
  3. Ranked #1 for
    disturbing imagery

Trailer

Possessor trailer
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4 Detention (2019)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 6.745
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fragmented narrative
  2. Ranked #1 for
    natural light
  3. Ranked #2 for
    precious

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Detention trailer
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5 The Stairs (2021)

In 1997, 11-year-old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers sets off into the very same woods. Unfortunately for them, they come face-to-face with the very same set of stairs...

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2021-02-26 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Kathleen Quinlan, John Schneider

Rating

rating icon 3.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    intentionally funny
  2. Ranked #4 for
    not remotely scary
  3. Ranked #5 for
    utterly insane

Trailer

The Stairs trailer
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6 Pearl (2022)

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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2022-09-16 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Mia Goth, Tandi Wright

Rating

rating icon 7.305
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    glorious technicolor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deranged
  3. Ranked #1 for
    emo character

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7 Censor (2021)

A film screener at the BBFC, who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low budget horror movie with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.

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2021-06-11 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley

Rating

rating icon 5.82
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    going bonkers
  2. Ranked #1 for
    artsy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    increasingly violent

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8 X (2022)

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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2022-03-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega

Rating

rating icon 6.727
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    like The Final Girls
  2. Ranked #2 for
    retro-style directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    throwback movie

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X trailer
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9 Men (2022)

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

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2022-05-20 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    symbolic imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    highly symbolic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    like a mirror

Trailer

Men trailer
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10 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
    payoff at ending
  3. Ranked #2 for
    creepy

Trailer

The Hole in the Ground trailer
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