6 Souls(2010)
2010 · Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein · 112 min
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
6.0784 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How 6 Souls scares
There's a heavy, uneasy feeling running through this one, more like a slow mystery unraveling than a movie built to make you jump. It moves at a deliberate pace, following a doctor piecing together something deeply wrong with a patient, and the dread builds quietly through conversations and flashbacks rather than shocks. Blood and violence stay mostly off-screen or implied, with the fear coming from confusion, guilt, and things that don't add up. It's the kind of horror that leaves you thinking afterward rather than one that makes you scream in the seat.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, 6 Souls rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 18 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 62 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow-building mystery that thickens steadily before tightening into a tense, hard-hitting final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4.
How scary is 6 Souls?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, 6 Souls 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 restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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