Do Not Enter(2024)
2024 · Hugo Cardozo · 85 min
Two working class youtubers ‘in the making’ enter an abandoned mansion to get their basketball back, and get lost inside while pranking each other. They record their ‘quick adventure’ with their phones for their audience, and tweak it with a fake phantom appearance to attract more followers to their YouTube channel. When uploaded the video goes viral, so they start a challenge: if the video reaches a certain number of views, they will enter the house again, at night, alone, totally unprotected. As fans react positively, they will do as promised, not only to discover and unveil the true nature of the place and their inhabitants, but to realize they might not be among the living anymore. Which opens a question - how far would you go to be famous?
Horror
6.7178 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How Do Not Enter scares
There's a raw, shaky-cam nervousness to this one, the kind where you're never quite sure if what you're seeing is staged or real, which keeps you a little on edge the whole time. It leans on the found-footage style of sudden jolts and glitchy camera moments rather than long stretches of quiet dread, so it moves in bursts of unease followed by scares. The haunted house has a dark history tied to torture and past cruelty, giving the scares a slightly heavier, uglier edge than a typical ghost story. It's aimed at people who like their horror scrappy and immediate, more about jump-out-of-your-seat moments than a slow psychological unraveling.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Do Not Enter 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: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, YouTube-prank-style setup that gradually tightens before slamming into a much rougher, unrelenting final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5.
How scary is Do Not Enter?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Do Not Enter 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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