Top rated dark and ominous movies with wasted potential

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

1 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 3.667
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    anticipated
  2. Ranked #1 for
    satisfying climax
  3. Ranked #1 for
    feeling a little rushed

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2 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

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2020-02-14 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck

Rating

rating icon 4.869
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    begging the question
  2. Ranked #1 for
    needlessly complicated
  3. Ranked #1 for
    clear conscience

Trailer

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3 Hideout (2021)

Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.

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2021-11-09 | Horror / Crime

Cast

Katie Lyons, Bryan Enright

Rating

rating icon 4.972
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    weird camera angle
  2. Ranked #1 for
    poorly put together
  3. Ranked #1 for
    downright painful

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Hideout trailer
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4 We Need to Do Something (2021)

Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.

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2021-09-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw

Rating

rating icon 5.341
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    final insult
  2. Ranked #1 for
    copping out
  3. Ranked #2 for
    wrapped-up nicely

Trailer

We Need to Do Something trailer
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5 The Outwaters (2023)

Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

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2023-02-09 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis

Rating

rating icon 4.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brace yourself
  2. Ranked #1 for
    loud sound
  3. Ranked #1 for
    pitch black

Trailer

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6 Portal (2019)

When an ambitious ghost hunter performs a risky ritual, opening a portal to "the other side", he and his team quickly find themselves way in over their heads in a fight for survival against an ancient demonic force.

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2019-10-15 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Ryan Merriman, Jamie Tisdale

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    marginally entertaining
  2. Ranked #2 for
    different spin
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hackneyed

Trailer

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7 Last Radio Call (2022)

On June 30th, 2018, Officer David Serling went missing inside an undisclosed abandoned hospital. Using his recovered body cam footage, his wife attempts to piece together what happened to him on that horrible night.

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2022-01-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Sarah Froelich, Jason Scarbrough

Rating

rating icon 6.068
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    quite chilling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  3. Ranked #2 for
    dead end

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8 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 3.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    left unexplained
  2. Ranked #2 for
    intentionally funny
  3. Ranked #5 for
    not remotely scary

Trailer

The Stairs trailer
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9 Warning (2021)

Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

Info

2021-10-22 | Science Fiction

Cast

Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve

Rating

rating icon 4.824
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    loosely connected plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sadly disappointing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    moment of brilliance

Trailer

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10 The Axiom (2019)

At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.

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2019-05-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Hattie Smith, Zac Titus

Rating

rating icon 5.435
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tad annoying
  2. Ranked #3 for
    dumbass
  3. Ranked #3 for
    losing interest quickly

Trailer

The Axiom trailer
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