Top rated slowly building up movies with an inevitable climax

Check out today’s highest ranked slowly building up movies with an inevitable climax! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best slowly building up movies with an inevitable climax, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Head Count (2019)

Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

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2019-06-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan

Rating

rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    climactic ending
  2. Ranked #3 for
    with creepy moments
  3. Ranked #3 for
    downright creepy

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2 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.568
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unsettling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bated breath
  3. Ranked #1 for
    godly

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3 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.059
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deathly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending

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4 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 6.611
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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5 Hunter Hunter (2020)

A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.

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2020-12-18 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell

Rating

rating icon 6.342
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    real shocker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    woah
  3. Ranked #1 for
    lumberjack

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6 Watcher (2022)

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

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2022-06-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman

Rating

rating icon 6.518
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    building tension
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sense of isolation
  3. Ranked #2 for
    fearing the dark

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7 Barbarian (2022)

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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2022-09-08 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård

Rating

rating icon 6.884
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    sudden turn
  2. Ranked #4 for
    shaky start
  3. Ranked #5 for
    picking up pace

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8 Cryptid (2022)

A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.

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2022-10-07 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Nicholas Baroudi, Ellen Adair

Rating

rating icon 3.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mindless gore
  2. Ranked #1 for
    feeling a little rushed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    anticipated

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9 Nope (2022)

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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2022-07-20 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer

Rating

rating icon 6.859
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    cinematic spectacle
  2. Ranked #4 for
    tangential
  3. Ranked #4 for
    otherworldly

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10 God's Country (2022)

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

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2022-09-15 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Thandiwe Newton, Jeremy Bobb

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    pitiful
  2. Ranked #3 for
    restless
  3. Ranked #3 for
    seasoned actor

Trailer

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