Dark Spell(2021)
2021 · Svyatoslav Podgaevsky · 93 min
Terror strikes when a heartbroken woman uses black magic to get her husband back.
Horror
6.6192 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How Dark Spell scares
Dark Spell leans on moody visuals and sudden jolts more than long stretches of quiet dread, following the style typical of this director's other supernatural films. The fear here comes from dark rituals and something otherworldly creeping into an ordinary home, with jump scares placed at regular intervals to keep you on edge. Blood and violence are present but not the main focus, more strange and unsettling than outright brutal. It plays like a solid, spooky night-in watch rather than something that will haunt you for days afterward.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Dark Spell rates psychological 3/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 65 of 100 — leans Jump scares
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 45 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, uneasy build that steadily tightens into a string of intense scares before an all-out climax.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
How scary is Dark Spell?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Dark Spell rates 3/5 — solidly scary, delivering its fear through jump scares more than lingering dread. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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