Top rated giving chills movies with a downbeat tone

Check out today’s highest ranked giving chills movies with a downbeat tone! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best giving chills movies with a downbeat tone, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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
    bleak atmosphere
  2. Ranked #1 for
    eerie
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sense of dread

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2 The Stranger (2022)

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

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2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    too slow-paced
  2. Ranked #1 for
    credible performance
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brilliantly put together

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3 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

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2019-01-24 | Documentary

Cast

Elizabeth Holmes, Alex Gibney

Rating

rating icon 7.087
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely fascinating
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ultimate downfall
  3. Ranked #1 for
    strangely compelling

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4 Butchers (2020)

A family of sadistic butchers lives deep inside the backcountry. From the dead of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat.

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2020-10-15 | Horror

Cast

Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton

Rating

rating icon 5.134
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heavily influenced
  2. Ranked #1 for
    completely unoriginal
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deformed

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5 Hinterland (2021)

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.

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2021-10-07 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries

Rating

rating icon 6.341
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    homesick
  2. Ranked #1 for
    chilling thrills
  3. Ranked #2 for
    taut and thrilling

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6 What Josiah Saw (2021)

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

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2021-08-13 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl

Rating

rating icon 5.983
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    above par
  2. Ranked #1 for
    utterly convincing acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    feeling of dread

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7 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 6.901
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high caliber
  2. Ranked #2 for
    captivating directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    consistently engaged

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8 The Batman (2022)

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

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2022-03-01 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gritty
  2. Ranked #1 for
    brooding
  3. Ranked #2 for
    darkest

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9 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 6.483
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    feeling of isolation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sense of isolation
  3. Ranked #2 for
    slowly building up

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10 Caveat (2021)

A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.

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2021-10-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Jonathan French, Leila Sykes

Rating

rating icon 6.111
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    total darkness
  2. Ranked #2 for
    creepier
  3. Ranked #2 for
    catatonic

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