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The Source of Shadows

Movies Like The Source of Shadows (2020)

The Source of Shadows is a 2020 horror film from Zev Chevat with a MovieMagicScore of 5.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Kwaidan and An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Kwaidan

1965

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

1970

Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.

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Black Sabbath

1963

Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.

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Trick 'r Treat

2007

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.

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Creepshow

1982

Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

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The Mortuary Collection

2020

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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V/H/S/Beyond

2024

The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.

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Ghost Stories

2018

Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.

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Extraordinary Tales

2013

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

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V/H/S/Halloween

2025

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.

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Books of Blood

2020

A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

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100 Candles Game: The Last Possession

2023

Influencer bloggers evoke spirit of vanished "black countess" during ritual at her mansion. She disappeared playing dimensional game. Their ritual unleashes otherworldly demons, and survivors must banish them back.

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Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

1995

In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among the works parodied are "Night Gallery", "The Twilight Zone", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "Frankenstein" and the "Abbott and Costello Meet..." films.

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Cursed

2023

The lives of six girls belong to different worlds although connected to each other through a doll called Molly, whose existence dates back to 1976, when she appeared among the rubble of the great fire of the San Carlos orphanage, in northern Spain

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Creepshow 2

1987

Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.

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V/H/S/2

2013

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

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Spirits of the Dead

1968

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

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Trilogy of Terror

1975

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

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Phobia 2

2009

An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.

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4bia

2008

Four horror tales revolve around an accident victim, a bullied youth, ghost stories and a deceased princess.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Source of Shadows?

The top films similar to The Source of Shadows by MovieMagicScore are Kwaidan (7.7), An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (7.4), Black Sabbath (7.2). Each shares horror themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Source of Shadows worth watching?

The Source of Shadows holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.6/10 from 28 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Source of Shadows?

The Source of Shadows (2020) is a horror film directed by Zev Chevat, starring Mathias Retamal, Kelly Vrooman, Janice Kingsley.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Source of Shadows?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more horror recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Source of Shadows

This ranked list pairs The Source of Shadows (2020), a horror film from Zev Chevat, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mathias Retamal take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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