Movies like Candyman 1992
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Candyman (1992)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, rough, bloody, psychological, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, ghost, supernatural, monster, belief, macabre, cult, investigation, urban decay, revenge, bee, haunted by the past, suspense, disfigurement, fire, legend, baby, mirror, slavery, violence, police, escape, reincarnation, graffiti ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 1990s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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Most similar movies to Candyman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and psychological films with plots about supernatural, murder, serial killer, death, suspense, violence and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Candyman: Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999), Curse of Chucky (2013), Dead Silence (2007), Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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68K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, dark, bloody ...
Plot:
urban legend, mirror, urban decay, strong violent content, supernatural, suspense, revenge, invisible man, vengeful ghost, ghost, fear, murder ...
Time:
2020s, year 1977, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, ghost, murder, violence, killer, urban legend, vengeance, monster, curse, runaway, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, usa, southern usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, serious, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, ghost, woman with a gun, insect, killings, bee, art, blonde, relatives, evil ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer doll, serial killer, doll, evil doll, disability, vengeance, child in peril, murder, family relations, escape, toy comes to life, puppet ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1988, year 2013
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
ghost, doll, macabre, supernatural, murder, ventriloquist, small town, investigation, twists and turns, clown, uncover truth, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Conjuring similar movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, destiny, a vision, supernatural, death, creativity, suspense, cheating death, road trip, macabre, haunted by the past, teenager ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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, suspenseful, slasher, tense, sinister ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, supernatural, teenager, death, life & death, survival, destiny, characters killed one by one, air disaster, disaster, freak accident, race against time ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
131K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
Style:
scary, gothic, slasher, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, demon, torture, body horror, monster, supernatural, surrealism, violence, murder, vengeance, suspense, occult ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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83K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, dark, scary ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, suspense, telepathy, curse, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment, witchcraft ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, ohio, east berlin
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100%
86K
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, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, macabre, killer car, supernatural, murder, friendship, objects come to life, suspense, betrayal, bullying, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1978 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, plymouth, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, afterlife, suspense, spirit, supernatural, ghost, murder, haunted by the past, legends and myths, buddies, supernatural ability, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s, 60s, year 1969, 21st century
Place:
salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style:
scary, neo noir, dark, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, magic, investigation, supernatural, faked death, occult, violence, desert, fanatic, cult, demon, magician ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, new york, mojave desert, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, scary, slasher, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, photographer, psychopath, violent, twists and turns, violence, butcher, obsession, subway, torture, crazy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, psychopath, murder, obsession, dark humor, insanity, mind game, woman in danger, split personality, vengeance, investigation ...
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, surprise ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, supernatural, masked villain, monster, murder, massacre, hospital, obsession, kitten, macabre, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Hills Have Eyes similar movies
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, cannibalism, suspense, massacre, youth, survival horror, chase, disfigurement, forest, manhunt, monster, cannibal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, supernatural, murder, masked killer, psychopath, torture, death, violent, writers, monster, hospital ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
survival, torture, suspense, forest, fear, youth, camping, chase, gang, murder, strong violent content, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, college, serial killer, monster, halloween, survival, ghost, brutality, psycho killer, teenager, student life, decapitation ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, cult, macabre, supernatural, suicide, cult leader, afterlife, insanity, sole survivor, psychopath, mind game, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Evil Dead related movies
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
77K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, lighthouse, ship, small town, revenge, monster, chase, murder, sword, fog, supernatural horror, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cult, killer child, children, suspense, religion, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, good versus evil, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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115K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
430K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, fear, psychopath, plot twist, mind game, macabre, violent, suspense, survival horror, trapped, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Saw related movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, suspense, demon, twists and turns, macabre, good versus evil, supernatural horror, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, chicago illinois, usa, asia, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, fear, murder, supernatural horror, investigation, evil force, writer's life, paranormal activity, children ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, year 1966, year 1979, year 1998 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
102K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, deathtrap, masked killer, twists and turns, murder, massacre, suspense, confined, parents and children, macabre, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
Style:
scary, psychological, surreal, splatter, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, occult, demon, insanity, cult, radio dj, burned alive, uncover truth, losing-it hero, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new england, massachusetts, usa, boston, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style:
scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, rape, serial killer, stranded, murder, dog, violence, torture, vengeance, cannibal, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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