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The Long Walk (2025)
98K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a dystopian, alternate-America ruled by a totalitarian regime, 50 teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
Style:
ambiguous ending, teen horror, psychological horror, surprise ending, road movie, suspense, psychotronic, black comedy, psychological thriller, f word
Plot:
stephen king, self sacrifice, teenage boy, friendship, male protagonist, death of protagonist, survival, suicide, tank, revenge, single mother, courage, rain, friendship between men, lottery, desperation, 18 year old, widow, corporal punishment, diner, death of father, irony, sleepwalking, writing a book, flashback ...
Time:
70s, near future
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Most similar movies to The Long Walk
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending and psychological films with plots about death, violence, blood, danger, fear, murder and brutality mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Long Walk: Eden (2024), Christine (1983), Salem's Lot (2024), Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025), 28 Years Later (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
39K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, island, sex scene, public nudity, female nudity, violence, isolation, power struggle, remote island, wilderness, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
102K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, creepy, suspense, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, killer car, violence, classic car, vengeance, stephen king, objects come to life, evil spirit, macabre, murder, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1957, year 1978, 1950s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, detroit
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A writer travels to a town where the people become vampires.
Style:
psychotronic, surprise ending, suspense, gothic, grindhouse ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, child vampire, stephen king, vampire, crucifix, supernatural power, childhood, supernatural horror, priest, disease, supernatural, virus ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
maine, jerusalem
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
Style:
satirical, sarcastic, ironic, surprise ending, dutch angle ...
Plot:
death, fate, accidental death, graphic violence, fire, supernatural horror, valet, cheating death, restaurant, ridicule, paranoid, taunting ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 2020s, year 1969
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Plot under wraps. The third film in the “28 Days Later” franchise.
Style:
surprise ending, freeze frame, suspense, dutch angle, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
island, zombie, post apocalypse, survival horror, survival, terminal illness, death, father son relationship, quarantine, survivor, death of mother, archery ...
Time:
2030s, 2000s, year 2002, 2020s
Place:
england, britain, scotland, united kingdom, scottish highlands
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.
Style:
psychological, suspense, sexual, dark, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
african american, danger, blood, life & death, brother, death, getting home, macabre, war, twists and turns, home invasion, chemist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, afghanistan
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style:
suspense, action adventure, lighthearted, psychotronic, crying ...
Plot:
stephen king, psychic, pyrokinesis, fear, superpower, wife, supernatural, evil, secret government organization, fire, telepathy, white supremacy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
47%
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55K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style:
tense, natural horror, scary, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
dog, rabies, macabre, dangerous animal, stephen king, boy, child in peril, brutality, death, animal attack, monster, killer dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1969, Alan Parker (Jackson) is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine. He becomes obsessed with death, and believing he is losing his girlfriend, Jessica (Christensen), he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends ...
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, talky, intense ...
Plot:
stephen king, halloween, macabre, hitchhiking, on the road, ghost, death, brutality, hitchhiker, life & death, road trip, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1969, year 2004, 60s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
43%
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
Similarity:
42%
211K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
bloody, scary, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
gory, demon, demonic possession, supernatural, zombie, woods, violence, blood, extreme violence, black magic, characters killed one by one, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
152K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.
Style:
suspense, bleak, dark, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
skinhead, murder, violence, brutality, survival, friendship, punk, punk band, neo nazi, killed by a dog, violent, revenge ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, afterlife, dead teenager, bloody mary, ghost, profanity, spirit, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, buddies ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
death, supernatural, life & death, survival, supernatural horror, characters killed one by one, danger, disaster, destiny, group of friends, psychic power, near death experience ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, year 2003, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
man versus machine, military, trapped, chase, rescue, danger, team, gunfight, deception, fear, panic, mercilessness ...
Place:
afghanistan
Similarity:
39%
155K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, telekinesis, prom, revenge, high school, stephen king, blood, psychic power, supernatural ability, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
trapped, trap, revenge plot, infidelity, hired killer, hitman, revenge, lawyer, dead husband, death of husband, female protagonist, dead body ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
Style:
suspense, brutal, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
survival horror, husband wife relationship, lovers, blind date, car crash, woman in jeopardy, harassment, babysitter, single mother, decapitation, mother daughter relationship, single parent ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, lighthearted, splatter, grindhouse ...
Plot:
monkey, death, death of mother, twins, accidental death, bully, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, cursed object, cursed, motel, cheerleader ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 2020s, year 2016
Place:
maine
Similarity:
36%
102K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.
Style:
slasher, perverse, psychological, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
game of death, torture, gory violence, survival horror, revenge, psychopath, abduction, self mutilation, whodunit, serial murder, panic, coma ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style:
slasher, independent film, suspense, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, cannibal, masked man, desert, gory, maniac, masked killer, escape, violent, survival, murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california, florida
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
master criminal, blood, torture, characters killed one by one, evil wins, trap, investigation, danger, violence, fbi, serial killer, rescue ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Style:
futuristic, captivating, space horror, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
alien monster, spaceship, space station, trapped in space, survival horror, alien, space, extraterrestrial, galaxy, monster, pregnant woman, alien parasite ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, creepy, dark, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, epidemic, virus, living dead, siege, shopping mall, gory, isolation ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, bolivia, philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
35%
10K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the ...
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
werewolf, dog, transformation, full moon, deadly creature, boy, sex scene, single mother, child in peril, monster, murder of a nude woman, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nepal, washington state
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style:
slasher, suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, haunted by the past, murder, family in danger, childhood, investigation, youth, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, slasher, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
truth or dare, game, group of friends, supernatural horror, danger, survival, demon, murder, characters killed one by one, college, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, tijuana mexico, big ben london, london, tokyo ...
Similarity:
32%
371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
31%
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