Top rated dark and depressing movies with wasted potential

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

1 Shifter (2020)

A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.

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2020-03-06 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Nicole Fancher, Ashley Mandanas

Rating

rating icon 4.038
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    super-smart
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most captivating
  3. Ranked #2 for
    credible performance

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Shifter trailer
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2 The Reckoning (2021)

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

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2021-02-05 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tepid plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    late night movie
  3. Ranked #2 for
    grim tale

Trailer

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3 Monstrous (2022)

Laura, traumatized by an abusive relationship, runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…

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2022-05-13 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    uncanny
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fairly easy
  3. Ranked #2 for
    snake-like character

Trailer

Monstrous trailer
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4 A Nightmare Wakes (2020)

An adaptation of the novel "Frankenstein," as told through the life of Mary Shelley. As she creates her masterpiece, she gives birth to a monster.

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2020-10-02 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Alix Wilton Regan, Giullian Yao Gioiello

Rating

rating icon 4.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    looker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    temperamental
  3. Ranked #5 for
    perturbed

Trailer

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5 Agnes (2021)

Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.

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2021-12-10 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Molly C. Quinn, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 4.256
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    sound promising
  2. Ranked #3 for
    messy
  3. Ranked #4 for
    off-kilter

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Agnes trailer
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6 The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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2020-10-29 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr.

Rating

rating icon 6.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fearing the dark
  2. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely frightening
  3. Ranked #1 for
    frightening

Trailer

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7 Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020)

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.

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2020-09-18 | Drama

Cast

Alexandra Daddario, Takehiro Hira

Rating

rating icon 5.39
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    dull affair
  2. Ranked #2 for
    rather dull
  3. Ranked #3 for
    tedious

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8 The Ravine (2022)

This true story begins on a weekday morning in a peaceful suburb of Akron, Ohio, the town awakens to discover that Rachel Turner and her son, Evan, have been brutally murdered during the night. A short while later, Danny Turner is found in his car at the bottom of a ravine, after having taken his own life.

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2022-05-06 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Eric Dane, Teri Polo

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    nicely filmed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    despicable acting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    heinous

Trailer

The Ravine trailer
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9 Vesper (2022)

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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2022-08-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan

Rating

rating icon 6.396
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    post-apocalyptic future
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slimy cast
  3. Ranked #2 for
    orwellian

Trailer

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10 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
    American Gothic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unaccountable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nice shooting

Trailer

Widow's Walk trailer
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