The Haunting of Sharon Tate(2019)
2019 · Daniel Farrands · 90 min
Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
Horror · Thriller
4.4212 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How The Haunting of Sharon Tate scares
The film spends most of its runtime drifting through dreamy, unsettling premonitions before building toward a tense final stretch, so the pace feels more like a slow unraveling than a straight scary movie. Dread comes mostly from a sense of doom hanging over everyday moments, with anxiety and foreboding doing more work than jump scares. The threat here is human, not supernatural, which makes the unease feel closer to home. It's less about fun scares and more about a heavy, uncomfortable feeling that sits with you, especially given the real events it's based on.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Haunting of Sharon Tate rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 30 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 85 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, dread-soaked drift through unsettling premonitions that builds gradually before tightening hard into a harrowing final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4.
How scary is The Haunting of Sharon Tate?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, The Haunting of Sharon Tate rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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