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Staycation (2024)
173
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
As a candid interview carries on between the country's leading virologist and a no-nonsense journalist, a couple separated between continents play catch up while a pandemic rages across the globe.
Style:
exciting, funny, humorous, captivating, dread, tense, realistic, melancholic, intense, existential ...
Plot:
journalist, interview, roommate, doctor, vacation, quarantine, virus, neighbor, professor, college roommate, coronavirus, isolation, long distance relationship, social commentary, claustrophobia, public health, urban, nostalgia, slow burn, college, couples, pandemic
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Staycation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspenseful and humorous films with plots about isolation, claustrophobia, survival, pandemic, slow burn, gore and satire mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Staycation: Fear (2023), Overtime (2011), New Year's Eve (2022), Confined (2021), Soft Matter (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
3K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An author's celebration with friends at a woodland cabin takes a terrifying turn when an airborne virus emerges at the same time supernatural forces target the group.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
pandemic, virus, vacation, vacation gone wrong, fear, group of friends, problem, infected, isolation, panic, paranoia, infection ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
All-star comics perform in support of Feeding America.
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
quarantine, pandemic, charity event, fund raising, stand up comedian, topical humor, african american, humour, virus, female comedian, comedian, african american man ...
Similarity:
92%
393
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Raph and Max only kill bad guys, and only after their boss Sam, a high-powered attorney, has cashed a nice paycheck for getting her sleazy clients off the hook. When Sam sends our heroes on a routine hit, they find themselves caught up in a ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, spoof ...
Plot:
hitman, laboratory, danger, alien encounter, parents and children, disorder, rivalry, good versus evil, couple relations, dark humor, zombie, tentacle ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
With the hope that the pandemic is coming to an end, Didem has been preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration for over a month. All her loved ones can finally get together and make up for the lost time, but the lockdown announcement has her plans ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, funny, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
new year, quarantine, celebration, party, holiday, humour, satire, pandemic, neighbor, intimate, reconciliation, friendship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
86%
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131
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple quarantined across the country from one another during a pandemic are unsure if the strange events happening around them are side effects of a virus - or something altogether more sinister.
Style:
psychological horror, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, isolation, found footage, paranormal phenomena, plague, couples, social isolation, supernatural horror, virus, mysticism, paranoia ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Two graffiti artists break into an abandoned, reportedly haunted research facility in hopes of creating an art installation, but stumble upon a secret team of demented researchers who are in the process of resurrecting an ancient sea creature - who ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
monster, slime, fire, immortality, lightning, graffiti, science, creature, evil being, sea creature, beast, painter ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows 20-year-old Drea, who reluctantly takes a job babysitting for a professor of a college she hopes to attend. Struggling to entertain the professor's children Trissy and Jake, along with her own little brother Phillip , Drea takes them on ...
Style:
suspense, humorous, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
monster, college, good versus evil, danger, supernatural, survival, dystopian future, escapades, chase, violence, dark hero, professor ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it's one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they've wandered ...
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, captivating, tense, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, resort, danger, isolation, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, survival, dark humor, violence, double barreled shotgun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.
Style:
apocalyptic, existential, philosophical, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
death, mortality, pandemic, epidemic, absurdism, body horror, experimental narrative, nihilism, panic, claustrophobia, military hospital, isolation ...
Similarity:
66%
111
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Darren gets the job of a lifetime when Hollywood comes knocking, and wants him to write a script based on the events of a traumatic experience he had. Like a fish out of water, Darren begins to spiral and disassociate much like his friend did years ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
trauma, mental health, mental breakdown, dissociation, isolation, hollywood, writer's block, obsession, film industry, identity crisis, character study, ambition ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"The Party Is Over" tells the story of three unusual guys who are roommates at a Southern California university and whose privileged lifestyle and the freedom that goes with it lead to bizarre and obsessive, even twisted, relationships ...
Style:
funny, exciting, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
rough sex, relationships, college roommate, college life, university, college student, couples, neighbor, student, couple relations, sexual relations, roommate ...
Place:
southern california
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Gerber's Syndrome is an contagious viral disease that was discovered in Germany in 2008 and spread all over the world. It is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly. This syndrome is very difficult to spot, because it's like a ...
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
found footage, pandemic, terminal illness, body horror, danger, plague, virus, vaccine, infection, society, quarantine, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
58%
200
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.
Style:
tension, suspense, sinister, crime thriller, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, computer, hacking, professor, investigation, secret society, college campus, cybercrime, paranoia, conspiracy, surveillance, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. A harrowing, darkly humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, manipulation, super powers, supernatural power, neighbor, supernatural, superhuman powers, writer's life, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ability, writers ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After losing his mother, a lonely boy decides to (literally) dig up some new friends, but when they mysteriously come back to life, he’s launched into a series of misadventures as he tries to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
zombie, loneliness, satire, death, family relations, boy, family problems, fight, american dream, dream, relationships, grief ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aliens with a ravenous appetite for summertime campers descend upon a campground.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien invasion, survival, monster, survival horror, alien, evil alien, struggle for survival, alien contact, alien life-form, alien creature, alien encounter, extraterrestrial ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Puppets live alongside humans peacefully, but suddenly their behavior becomes depraved. Is such criminal activity rare, or is the media blowing things out of proportion, making cops look like sadistic gunslingers and causing people to distrust them, ...
Style:
independent film, parody, sexy, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
puppet, evil doll, stripper, love and romance, fall in love, society, couples, parallel world, youth, parallel universe, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy, Morocco
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
Style:
thrilling, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
survival, infection, biohazard, body horror, parasite, claustrophobia, pandemic, survival horror, isolation, nightmare, underground, military base ...
Place:
australia, kansas
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours.
Style:
clever, comedy drama, tragicomedy, satirical, surreal ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, neighbor, apartment building, virus, meeting, life, friend, house, alone, wife, isolation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An expedition to the lunar ice caves contracts a deadly moon-fungus. Stopping en route they contaminate a space station with the fungus, which soon begins to take over the entire place.
Style:
space horror, tense, retro, black and white, suspenseful ...
Plot:
astronaut, space station, quarantine, space travel, outer space, infection, mutiny, survival, man versus nature, isolation, claustrophobia, creature feature ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
8 contestants compete in 8 deadly, classic children's games. They seek fame beyond their wildest dreams, competing for the chance to take over the YouTube channel of the famous yet elusive masked YouTuber known only as "JaxPro".
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
survival game, fame, mature, elimination, social media, vlogger, survival, game of death, game, blogger, struggle for survival, survival horror ...
Similarity:
48%
171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 2010, the people of Seoul, South Korea fight a virus that threatens to infect the planet.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, suspense, dark, horror comedy ...
Plot:
zombie, virus, epidemic, survival, apocalypse, struggle for survival, infected, infection, living dead, zombie apocalypse, undead, zombie survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A disgruntled grocery store clerk can't quit living in the past until one night his store gets robbed and it changes his future forever.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
robbery, heist, criminal, changing lives, satire, social satire, problem, lifestyle change, store, regret, character study, everyday life ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Get in the holiday spirit with this cozy, crackling fire.
Style:
captivating, mystical, surreal, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, holiday horror, satire, holiday, fire, supernatural horror, winter, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, isolation, home invasion ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Residents of a half-way house are bombarded by 6 foot long killer scorpions. A horror/comedy homage to the giant mutant bug films of the 1950's. The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but has yet to see release on DVD, ...
Style:
disturbing, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
scorpion, mutant, toxic waste, giant monster, monster terrorizes city, monster, battles, human versus monster, fight, survival, creature feature, killer animal ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming. Amber Benson, Charles Napier, and Ron Jeremy star in an homage to ...
Style:
parody, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, humorous ...
Plot:
body horror, alien encounter, isolation, deadly creature, danger, filmmaking, alien, evil alien, monster, killer, erotica, captivity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When a deadly zombie virus infects a school in Germany it remains on the student Leo to save the world.
Style:
entertaining, tense, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
zombie, school, german humor, rescue, virus, schoolboy, salvation, rescue mission, humour, zombie attack, apprentice, youth culture ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
44%
44
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A sociopath who, upon meeting a reporter, begins to explain that his killings and the pain he inflicts on others are to him a form of art.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, intense, psychological horror, noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, sociopath, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, obsession, reporter, violence, mind game, psychological manipulation, character study, interrogation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
44%
383
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Tied up, blindfolded, and left in the woods in nothing but their underwear as part of a Hell Week initiation, six college-aged pledges are tasked with setting up camp. Broken up into two teams, boys versus girls, they must complete a number of ...
Style:
slasher, captivating, scary, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot:
woods, forest, bail, college student, mockery, supernatural being, initiation, female student, victim, youth, student, female college student ...
Similarity:
44%
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