
The Love Witch
2016 · MovieElaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.
Slow burn horror delays its scares, letting unease build quietly through mood and character for most of the runtime before the horror fully surfaces. Nothing happens for a while. Then everything does. Curated slow burn horror is built on patience, films that use atmosphere, character, and creeping unease to earn their payoff. If you need a jump scare in the first ten minutes, these aren't for you.

Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.

Driving to Richmond one night, columnist John Klein somehow lands hundreds of miles off course in Point Pleasant, where West Virginia locals report a winged thing with red eyes. His late wife kept sketching the same shape.

Twelve-year-old Ben just wants to fit in at a boys' water polo camp, but the popular kids have a cruel game: one quiet camper with a skin rash is said to carry a contagious plague.

A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers and manage a small shop. The customers who come after dark aren't quite what you'd expect.

Four men take a memorial hike through the Scandinavian wilderness and find a shortcut through forest that has been maintaining its own agenda.

Jack Torrance moves his family into an empty mountain hotel for the winter to write and recover, but the hotel has other plans for him.

A frightened nine-year-old in Philadelphia has a secret he's scared to say out loud, and the only adult who might believe him is a psychologist still haunted by the patient he failed.

A hospice nurse takes a job at an old Louisiana plantation house and finds a locked room in the attic the family isn't eager to discuss.

Kate escaped from Liam's obsession and took refuge in her grandfather's mansion. Strange occurrences raise questions about who, exactly, is out there.

An anthology series where each season follows a group of people in terrifying historical situations where the horror is real and the hope of rescue is not.

Rod Serling hosts a weekly anthology at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the deeply uncomfortable. The twist ending became its calling card.

Becca and Tyler travel alone to their maternal grandparents' rural Pennsylvania home and film their visit for a documentary about the family estrangement.

Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.

Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, travels to a remote English village to handle an estate. The community's fear of the woman in black turns out not to be superstition.

In 1953 Los Angeles, a Black family moves into an all-white neighborhood and finds that the terror in their new home comes from both inside and outside its walls.

Catherine and George Claire move into an old Hudson Valley farmhouse in 1980 and find the property's history involves the local brothers they hire to work on it, in ways that make the fresh start complicated.

August 2006. As a reserve caretaker on patrol, you check phototraps and monitor cameras — but you're not the only one watching.

Julia moves to Bucharest for her husband's new job and notices a man in the window across the street who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.

After a military accident kills thousands across Tasmania, Ava joins the crews collecting the bodies so she can look for her missing husband. Some of the dead are not staying dead.

Mayor Tom Loftis just needs tourists to come to his struggling island town, cursed history be damned. The locals warned him, and the locals were right.
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