Top rated movies with stiff acting that have ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with stiff acting and ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with stiff acting and ratcheting up tension, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Dangerous Methods (2022)

An ambitious Hollywood assistant finds herself in a hellish, live-or-death situation when she agrees to live in isolation with an overbearing Method actor who wants an extreme experience far from civilization while preparing for his next role.

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2022-04-01 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Nicky Whelan, Costas Mandylor

Rating

rating icon 3.25
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    method acting
  2. Ranked #2 for
    naturalistic acting
  3. Ranked #4 for
    becoming engrossed

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2 Mid-Century (2022)

A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.

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2022-06-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Shane West, Sarah Hay

Rating

rating icon 4.648
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    too convoluted
  2. Ranked #1 for
    evil henchman
  3. Ranked #2 for
    talented director

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3 Alien Outbreak (2020)

In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise alien machines are taking hold, cutting their small group of survivors off from the outside world. Can the determined humans band together to save their community, and all mankind, from extinction?

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2020-02-11 | Science Fiction / Horror

Cast

Katherine Drake, Ritchie Crane

Rating

rating icon 3.708
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    better than most
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rather uneventful
  3. Ranked #1 for
    passable

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4 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
    feeling a little rushed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    satisfying climax
  3. Ranked #1 for
    anticipated

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5 Girl on the Third Floor (2019)

Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.

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2019-10-25 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Phil Brooks, Trieste Kelly Dunn

Rating

rating icon 5.216
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    passable acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    icky
  3. Ranked #1 for
    refurbished

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6 Last Seen in Idaho (2019)

A woman awakens from a coma after a car accident and begins having shocking visions of her future murder. It's a race against the clock as she tries to solve and prevent her own murder.

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2019-08-22 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Hallie Shepherd, Casper Van Dien

Rating

rating icon 4.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    excessively violent
  2. Ranked #2 for
    expertly executed
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stiff and wooden acting

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7 Unearth (2020)

The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.

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2020-08-25 | Horror

Cast

Adrienne Barbeau, Marc Blucas

Rating

rating icon 3.87
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    real downer
  2. Ranked #2 for
    pretty picture
  3. Ranked #3 for
    falling asleep in the middle

Trailer

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8 The Samaritans (2020)

Four co-workers get together to finish a project at their manager's home. They haven't actually met face to face and they discover they have more in common than the new App they are perfecting. As they piece together their histories, they realize that each of them has a deadly secret that could reveal a way out or seal their fates. Their pasts have provoked a vengeful force to show them the errors in their ways. The home they have been summoned to becomes their court and their prison. Can they prove that history doesn't repeat itself? Can they redeem themselves before time runs out? Will they figure out their fateful bond before revenge has its way with them?

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2020-01-30 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Keith Collins, Doug Bollinger

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shaggy-dog story
  2. Ranked #1 for
    considerably skilled directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    nonchalant

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9 The Haunting of the Murder House (2023)

In October, four filmmakers disappeared in a haunted house while live streaming on social media. A year later, their footage was found.

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2023-05-25 | Horror

Cast

Kellan Rudnicki, Tyler Miller

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    undemanding mood
  2. Ranked #1 for
    too bright
  3. Ranked #2 for
    bated breath

Trailer

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10 The Huntress: Rune of the Dead (2022)

When Runa’s father disappears on a viking journey she steps up as head of her family, but she is tormented by strange nightmares. One day when she is out hunting, she stumbles across a wounded warrior who carries news of her father, new that seem connected to her dreams. Something is coming for them, something vile.

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2022-07-21 | Horror / Adventure

Cast

Moa Enqvist Stefansdotter, Yohanna Idha

Rating

rating icon 5.385
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    blander
  2. Ranked #2 for
    slightly underwhelming
  3. Ranked #2 for
    loud applause

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