Top rated tension-filled movies with use of low lighting

Check out today’s highest ranked tension-filled movies with use of low lighting! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best tension-filled movies with use of low lighting, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Underwater (2020)

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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2020-01-08 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel

Rating

rating icon 6.284
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Monster Movie
  2. Ranked #2 for
    respite
  3. Ranked #4 for
    claustrophobic

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2 The Head Hunter (2019)

On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

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2019-04-05 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman

Rating

rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cool
  2. Ranked #1 for
    flashy visual
  3. Ranked #2 for
    scratching head

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The Head Hunter trailer
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3 The Good Nurse (2022)

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

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2022-10-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Rating

rating icon 6.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high caliber
  2. Ranked #1 for
    engaging
  3. Ranked #2 for
    better-paced

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4 Take the Night (2022)

When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.

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2022-07-08 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Seth McTigue, Ashwin Gore

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unexpected twist
  2. Ranked #1 for
    resentful character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    way over-the-top acting

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5 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 6.064
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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6 Nefarious (2019)

Darren, Lou, Jo and Mas live a meager existence on the fringes of poverty. Indebted to the criminal kingpin of their social housing development, they routinely fear for their lives. On the other side of town, the already wealthy Marcus and his disabled brother Clive receive a windfall in the form of a winning lottery ticket. When their worlds collide following a botched robbery, the would-be criminals get more than they bargained for, and will be tested to their limits in a desperate attempt to survive a predator of monstrous proportions.

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2019-10-28 | Horror

Cast

Toby Wynn-Davies, Gregory A. Smith

Rating

rating icon 3.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    Grand-Guignol
  2. Ranked #4 for
    little cheating
  3. Ranked #4 for
    fearing the dark

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7 The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2019)

After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon finds himself unwittingly forced out of retirement when he realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Understanding that the shooting could set off a chain reaction of copycat violence across the country, Gannon quarantines his fellow militiamen in the remote lumber mill they call their headquarters. There, he sets about a series of grueling interrogations, intent on ferreting out the killer and turning him over to the authorities to prevent further bloodshed.

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2019-01-18 | Crime / Drama

Cast

James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty

Rating

rating icon 6.125
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    guttural voice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crisp dialogue
  3. Ranked #1 for
    contrived plot

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8 Nanny (2022)

Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.

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2022-11-23 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan

Rating

rating icon 5.311
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tacked on
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ending rather abruptly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    holding interest

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9 The Vast of Night (2019)

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

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2019-06-01 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 6.555
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cranky
  3. Ranked #2 for
    deeply focused

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10 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

Trailer

The Lighthouse trailer
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