Movies like Penance 2024

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Penance (2024)
Penance (2024)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who murders his victims according to the 9 Circles of Hell. As Brannigan delves deeper into the case, dark secrets are revealed and the evidence begins to state that this is not MURDER, this is REVENGE.
Style: slasher, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
Plot: revenge, murder, blood, serial murder, psychopath, violence, brutality, danger, maniac, serial killer, investigation, obsession, death, homicidal maniac, chase, vengeance, who done it, masked killer, police investigation, disguise, woman in danger, violent, uncover truth, torture, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspense, scary and suspenseful films with plots about serial killer, violence, psychopath, murder, violent, maniac and brutality mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Penance: Last Girl Standing (2015), And Then You Die! (2013), All My Friends Are Dead (2021), Leaf Blower Massacre 2 (2017), Pig (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Last Girl Standing (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, troubled past, girl, brutality, woman in danger, violence, psychopath, danger, murder, revenge, maniac, disguise ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
And Then You Die! (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right and everything falls apart, everyone is out to get you and there isn't a damn thing you can do....or is there! Life's a bitch!...And then YOU die! A movie about revenge, punishment ...
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: underground, revenge, murder, violence, punishment, payback, death, psychopath, brutality, obsession, danger, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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All My Friends Are Dead (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: When a girl has her friends come along with her to scatter her father's ashes at the old family farm, strange things begin to happen. A warm campfire and scary stories is only the beginning to a night she'll never forget.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot: high school student, death, friends, murder, violence, revenge, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, brutality, woman in danger, danger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Leaf Blower Massacre 2 (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: After finding out about the brutal murder of his fiancé, Shavar seeks revenge against a masked killer with a penchant for yard work weaponry. Fall will be the season of fear.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: revenge, serial killer, vengeance, fear, escapades, chase, homicidal maniac, blood, brutality, psychopath, threat, masked killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Pig (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: violence, serial killer, murder, maniac, disguise, serial murder, vengeance, homicidal maniac, chase, killing spree, society, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Giving Up Forever (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Jack Adolf, a 38 year old man with a history of being rejected by women seeks revenge against the people who have bullied him.
Style: scary, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: revenge, woman in danger, violence, murder, psychopath, brutality, danger, serial killer, vengeance, maniac, blood, death ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Burial Ground Massacre (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of college students spend a night at an old, eerie manor, only to realize that a terrifying stalker is watching their every move as he begins plans to repossess an ancient Native American artifact located inside.
Style: slasher, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, violence, serial murder, indian burial ground, brutality, danger, revenge, masked killer, chase, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Chop Chop (2020)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, couples, maniac, violence, woman in danger, murder, brutality, psychopath, disguise, masked killer, death, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Teacher Shortage (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: high school student, murder, maniac, psychopath, serial murder, homicidal maniac, masked killer, high school, revenge, blood, violence, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 3.8
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GetAWAY (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of college students go for a weekend trip to shoot a short horror film for class... when the terror gets real.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, woman in danger, brutality, vengeance, filmmaker, danger, blood, chase, heroine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.2
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Backstabber (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, thinking outside the box, and risk management as they fight for survival from a deranged killer bent on revenge.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, revenge, murder, brutality, pursuit, maniac, violence, young woman, threat, characters killed one by one, woman in danger, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cheerleader Camp 2 The Death (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: After a team of cheerleaders are burned to death in a gruesome sprinkler accident, the one who got away, Tanya, returns to cheerleader camp. Joining her are an all-new squad of drop-dead-gorgeous mean girls from competing high schools who chafe ...
Style: slasher, tense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, maniac, serial murder, high school, small town, murder, disguise, brutality, violent, teenager, killing spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A documentary of serial killer Wayne Montgomery and his followers.
Style: scary, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: found footage, masked killer, serial killer, murderer, killing spree, serial murder, obsession, revenge, death, psychopath, brutality, maniac ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Camp Blood 8: Revelations (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The Killing at Camp Blood stopped for a while. But the son of the original killer clown has carried on the machete and driven by his deranged mother, played by Sally Mullins (Things 4, Lights Out With David Spade), continues to kill anyone who ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak ...
Plot: killer clown, clown, masked killer, lost in the woods, death, obsession, blood, revenge, fear, murder, violence, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Porkchop 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: When a Group of survivors come together in a bid for revenge they're in for a shock when they discover the masked maniac Porkchop is not alone!
Style: slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, masked killer, murder, violence, cannibalism, cannibal, revenge, brutality, sadistic psychopath, characters killed one by one, disguise ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Dark Foe (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.
Style: tense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, fbi agent, revenge, psychopath, death, brutality, disguise, woman in danger, rivalry, homicidal maniac, who done it, violence ...
Time: year 1989, 21st century
Place: usa
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Die Influencers Die (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington (Frankie Rivers) dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: clown, murder, serial killer, social media, psychopath, killer clown, violence, society, fear, chase, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Pinup Dolls on Ice (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Pinup Dolls are a hot retro act who put the tease back in striptease. But when an old friend (Suzi Lorraine) hires them to put on a show at a secluded campground, the girls find themselves being stalked by a homicidal maniac with a sick ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: female nudity, serial killer, maniac, stripper, woman in danger, violence, revenge, murder, pursuit, danger, masked killer, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Criticsized (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A serial killer taunts police while increasing the body count on live streaming TV.
Style: exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: internet, police detective, serial killer, murder, manipulation, psychopath, serial murder, revenge, chase, killer, danger, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Die Ontwaking (2015)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Abel is preparing for a special gift to himself on his 50th Birthday. He wants to find himself a new face, that of a beautiful young woman. Ella Nesser is the attractive, but inexperienced murder detective, in charge of the case to track down the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, maniac, police, obsession, violence, serial murder, revenge, who done it, homicidal maniac, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Hazard Jack (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of college kids get together for a weekend of booze and war games at an abandoned hospital. The hospital has become the haven for a PTSD stricken war vet coping and acting upon his delusions. Who will survive the game?
Style: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, pursuit, friends, escapades, maniac, abandoned building, violence, death, chase, blood, murder, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Pickaxe (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the summer of 1982, a group of campers was horribly slaughtered at Camp Arapaho in the sleepy little town of Woodland Hills. The 10 gruesome murders were blamed on Alex Black, a mysterious man believed to have been the son of Satan himself, whom ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, serial murder, summer camp, violence, danger, brutality, killing spree, pursuit, revenge, violent ...
Time: year 1982, 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
Halloween Awakening: The Legacy of Michael Myers (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Michael Myers stalks a group of party-goers who break into Smith's Grove Sanitarium on Halloween night.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: halloween, masked killer, murder, revenge, society, homicidal maniac, vengeance, youth, violence, disguise, characters in danger, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Harvest (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: Ten strangers find themselves trapped in the dark, in the storm, lost in huge fields of corn. They take refuge in a dark, quiet farmhouse where the welcoming Mr. Grant lives. But as the night goes on, and sinister shapes begin to emerge from the ...
Style: scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, death, storm, secret, darkness, farmhouse, night, monster, evil, farm, violent, maniac ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Mad Hatter (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that ...
Style: fairy tale, suspense, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: high school student, murder, violence, brutality, danger, psychopath, youth, masked killer, teenager, chase, teenage life, revenge ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Death-Scort Service Part 2: The Naked Dead (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Deep in the heart of Las Vegas a new killer has emerged. Having survived the previous psycho's last wrath (Michelle) Krystal "Pixie" Adams is left behind to start anew and forget about her black past. Problem is this new murderer is ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: maniac, prostitute, murder, violence, woman in danger, serial killer, psychopath, brutality, violent, homicidal maniac, obsession, masked killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Blue Call (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young ...
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, psychotronic, slasher ...
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, murder, fear, maniac, psycho terror, serial murder, homicidal maniac, brutality, killing spree, young woman, drug use ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 2.7
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Clownface (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
Style: slasher, tense, psychotronic, suspense, scary ...
Plot: killer clown, maniac, serial killer, survival, masked killer, small town, brutality, psychopath, serial murder, killing, clown, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Slashlorette Party (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: An anxious young woman is taken by her friends to a remote cabin in the woods to celebrate her bachelorette party. The fun and games are cut short when an uninvited guest begins killing off the wedding party, one by one.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, cabin in the woods, party, maniac, violence, murder, brutality, blood, chase, death, fear, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Last of the Grads (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary ...
Style: slasher, scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, masked killer, escapades, friends, paranoia, threat, obsession, violent, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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