Movies like Death Valley 1981
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Death Valley (1981)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, offbeat, bloody, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
death valley, serial killer, murder, teenage life, maniac, murderer, cowboy, road trip, child in peril, survival, teenager, trailer home, american horror, scared, trucker, psychopath, desert, twins, gory, on the road, family relations, family life, chases and races, danger, on the run ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
arizona, usa, new york, california, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, serious, suspenseful and scary films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, psychopath, danger, killer and murderer mostly in Thriller, Horror and Crime genres. Some movies like Death Valley: The Hitcher (2007), Dark Ride (2006), Bloody Murder (2000), Son of Sam (2008), Psycho Cop (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, gory, desert, murder, hitchhiker, road trip, killer, sociopath, brutality, murder of family, rain ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, new mexico, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, lake, murderer, murder, danger, vengeance, teenage life, survival, rivalry, mind game, masked killer ...
Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, danger, investigation, psychopath, rivalry, mind game, curses spells and rituals, murderer, tough guy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, maniac, survival, serial killer, danger, youth, violence, violence spree, woods, police officer, supernatural being ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, strong violent content, rape and murder, who done it, life is a bitch, physical appearance, mentally unstable, stalking, law enforcement, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A babysitter begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who has just killed an entire family.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, home invasion, danger, terrorism, youth, teenage life, prank, legends and myths ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
3K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
Style:
slasher, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, psychopath, who done it, small town, violence spree, gory, haunted by the past, homecoming, woman in danger, murder, aunt niece relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style:
slasher, creepy, scary, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1976, year 1946
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, psychopath, law enforcement, violence spree, police investigation, stalking, mind game, danger, criminal, cannibal ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
Similarity:
38%
352
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A charismatic serial killer embarks on a murderous cross-country road trip in search of true love.
Style:
neo noir, bloody, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, crime spree, murder, road trip, revenge, violence, sadistic psychopath, friends, masked killer, killing spree, characters in danger, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
psychopath, on the road, gory, confined, danger, mind game, woman in danger, isolation, desert, murder, driver, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, utah, las vegas, nevada
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131K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
serial killer, doll, killer doll, psychopath, gory, evil doll, macabre, blood, murder, dark humor, voodoo, black magic ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
38%
643
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
Style:
realistic, serious, slasher, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence spree, murder, investigation, police detective, danger, law enforcement, woman in danger, stalking, true crime, killing spree, blood ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, horrifying, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, neighbor, violence, old dark house, danger, gory, hollywood, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 2016
Similarity:
37%
427
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, suspense, perverse ...
Plot:
gory, massacre, brutality, dismemberment, blood, chainsaw, sadism, death of sister, torture, maniac, murder, sadistic horror ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
37%
22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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879
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Style:
slasher, neo noir, spooky, detective, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalker, isolation, psychopath, investigation, murder, couples, danger, obsession, law enforcement, memory loss, police officer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to ...
Style:
slasher, controversial, psychological, detective, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, killer, exploitation, sex crime, killing spree, serial murder, true crime, prostitute, police detective, gory, sexual abuse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, killing spree, investigation, police detective, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins
Style:
slasher, detective, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, baseball, murder, baseball coach, nudity, psychopath, police detective, violent content, danger, police investigation, stalking, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, houston texas
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties
Style:
serious, scary, rough, realistic, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, danger, true crime, devil worship, blasphemy, violence, satanist, killing spree, killer, stalking, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
Style:
slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, survival, danger, isolation, forest, revenge, decapitation, camping, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
36%
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