Movies like Carrie 1976
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Carrie (1976)
193K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, tense, intense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, dark, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, vengeance, social misfits, cruelty, prom, telekinesis, revenge, abusive mother, prank, female protagonist, public humiliation, high school life, rage, high school, punishment, female nudity, teacher, coming of age, supernatural, religious fanatic, school, supernatural ability, bad mother, high school prom, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, future, near future, year 1979
Place:
maine, usa
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Most similar movies to Carrie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and psychological films with plots about blood, suspense, death, murder, gory, supernatural and violence mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Carrie: Sleepaway Camp (1983), May (2002), Silent Hill (2006), A Bay of Blood (1971), Tormented (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
143K
Genre: Drama, Horror
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:
suspenseful, rough, splatter, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, prom, suspense, telekinesis, social misfits, mother daughter relationship, humiliation, supernatural ability, teacher, supernatural, dead teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
11K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Style:
bleak, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, telekinesis, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, youth, parents and children, life is a bitch, prom, strong violent content, bullying, psychic power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. But Rachel has something else that ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, erotic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, bullying, telekinesis, revenge, supernatural, american football, female nudity, loss of virginity, teenager, suicide, fire, prom ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
london, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, summer camp, youth, murder, twists and turns, rivalry, teenage life, mental illness, violence, brutality, bullying ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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38K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, imaginary friend, psychopath, obsession, murder, insanity, female psychopath, cannibalism, goth, suspense, lesbian ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Conjuring
234K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, surreal, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, survival, insanity, macabre, torture, mysterious place, supernatural horror, ghost, evil, ghost town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, inheritance, violence, obsession, fear, psychopath, strangulation, insanity, investigation, squid, anger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
tokyo, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film centers on Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
Style:
scary, slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, revenge, ghost, bullying, vengeful ghost, vengeance, bully, serial killer, supernatural, dead teenager, suicide, prank ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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20K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A timid and reclusive 18-year-old high school student is alienated by her parents and ruthlessly rejected by her peers. Desperate and isolated, she confides in her own reflection — and in the mirror she finds her imagined evil twin, someone who ...
Style:
brutal, psychological, bleak, captivating, mystical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, bullying, snow, teenage life, doppelganger, parents and children, father daughter relationship, plastic surgeon, murder, high school life, prom ...
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100%
354K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, bloody, parody ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenager, small town, psychopath, murder, masked killer, twists and turns, suspense, woman in danger, teenage life, violent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies similar to Evil Dead
231K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, ghost, macabre, nightmare, fear, single mother, suspense, insanity, dysfunctional family, mental illness, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
Style:
scary, psychological, stylized, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, suspense, nightmare, evil child, investigation, mental institution, family problems, supernatural ability, small town, supernatural horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style:
surreal, scary, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, suspense, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, macabre, school, disfigurement ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
249K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, evil, macabre, suspense, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, death, coming of age, sex, supernatural being ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit, california, usa, plymouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, teenager, youth, murder, small town, urban legend, characters killed one by one, high school, hidden truth, psychopath, fisherman ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to Orphan
357K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, twists and turns, race against time, death, urban legend, investigation, life is a bitch, macabre, female protagonist, uncover truth ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenage life, youth, psychopath, suspense, mystery killer, friends, murder, female nudity, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
191K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, college, serial murder, suspense, villain, strong female lead, murder, twists and turns, psychopath, killer, masked killer, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Movie in collections
72K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, investigation, suspense, urban legend, macabre, cult, journalist, curse, woman in danger, vengeance, violent ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
416K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, controversial, satanic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, religion, exorcism, devil, suspense, demon, priest, occult, satan, demonic possession, exorcist, supernatural ability ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, asia, washington d.c., iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Jeepers Creepers related movies
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, high school, teenager, psychopath, women, massacre, camp, violence, marijuana, fear, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
venice california, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
suspense, supernatural, witchcraft, macabre, ritual, female protagonist, satanic cult, lunar eclipse, devil, haunted house, ghost, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
123K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
devil, prophecy, evil child, supernatural, satan, macabre, priest, murder, demon, religion, evil wins, monk ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
london, rome italy, england, europe, jerusalem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, gothic, psychotronic, surreal ...
Plot:
ghost, female protagonist, supernatural, zombie, carnival, car accident, afterlife, amusement park, surrealism, hallucination, spirit, cult ...
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
84K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, obsession, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Films like The Exorcist
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style:
scary, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, supernatural, macabre, demon, death, serial killer, scarecrow, torture, suspense, characters murdered one by one, chase, road trip ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, hospital, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, small town, murder, violence, serial killer, macabre, suspense, monster, exploitation, twists and turns, experiment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Style:
scary, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
religions or cults, hollywood, filmmaking, cult, casting couch, aspiring actress, friendship, violence, supernatural, suspense, torture, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
orphan, closeted homosexual, gay slur, basketball, serial killer, homophobic slur, control freak, female serial killer, attic, homosexuality, gay teacher, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%