Movies like Destroyer 1988

If you like "Destroyer" you are looking for slasher, retro and bloody movies about / with serial killer, execution, killer, supernatural being, prison, female nudity and psycho killer themes of Horror and Thriller genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Destroyer (1988)
 4.8
 1K
Destroyer (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...
Style: slasher, retro, bloody, independent film
Plot: serial killer, execution, killer, supernatural being, prison, female nudity, psycho killer, actress, filmmaking, evil man, prison riot, presumed dead, nude, gore, body count, female full frontal nudity, film within a film, jackhammer, trailer, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Keyword: challenge

Movie in categories

slasher movies
5054
execution movies
1212
killer movies
3207
retro movies
2469
bloody movies
2489
prison movies
3922

Most similar movies to Destroyer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, bloody and slasher horror films with plots about serial killer, murder, female nudity, gore, killer, psycho killer and psychopath mostly in Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Destroyer: Hellmaster (1992), Deadly Intruder (1985), Deadly Dreams (1988), Drive In (2000), The Sleeper (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 3.8
 778
Hellmaster (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
Style: slasher, splatter, independent film
Plot: monster, college, serial killer, killer, mutant, drug, female nudity, gore
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Deadly Intruder (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, vacation, death, kidnapping, psychopath, insanity, drifter, manhunt, mental patient, stalking, maniac ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.8
 505
Deadly Dreams (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: From the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, bloody, christmas horror, suspense thriller ...
Plot: christmas, xmas, teenager, plot twist, women, nightmare, murder, blood, animal mask, killing spree, serial murder, serial killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 3.3
 255
Drive In (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man, confined to a room across from a drive-in theater showing only horror movies, escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, electrocution, jealousy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, single mother, female nudity, murder, sex scene, gore, merry go round, film within a film
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Movie in collections
 3.9
 1K
The Sleeper (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the ...
Style: slasher, retro, bloody, grindhouse, slasher horror ...
Plot: sorority, serial killer, winter, murder, psychopath, maniac, woman in danger, chase, obsession, revenge, party, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.2
 296
Deadly Lessons (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
Style: slasher
Plot: serial killer, boarding school, girls' school, psycho killer, psychopath, stalker, killer, murder investigation, teenager, murder, kidnapping, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: halloween, serial killer, danger, stalking, youth, murder, bullying, massacre, torture, masked killer, killer, urban legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Violent Shit II (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Drilled by his deranged mother, Karl the Butcher jr. takes revenge for the gruesome death of his father. Anyone who sets foot on the forest has to die. Hold on to your limbs as Karl jr. slaughter his victims to some amazing tunes of terror. ...
Style: bloody, slasher, disturbing, extreme horror, controversial ...
Plot: serial killer, extreme, cannibalism, cannibal, killer, exploitation, gory, deranged, forest, killing spree, revenge, death of father ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Movie in collections
Video Violence 2 (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their ...
Style: slasher, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: serial killer, killer, evil computer, filmmaking, child murder, body mutilation, electric chair, electrocution, death, violence, murder, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 3.9
 66
Dead on Site (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Dead On Site is the story of a group of media arts majors who decide as a final project to take over a vacant house where a family had been wiped out a year before. They plan to re-enact the murders and web-cast them on a site while they search for ...
Style: suspense, slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, technology, nudity, night, house, stalker, violence, death, female nudity, blood splatter, gore
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Honeymoon Horror (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Imagine every newlywed's fantasy, a rustic secluded lover's paradise- Honeymoon Island. What starts as a weekend of love, turns into a nightmare of blood and terror for three young innocent couples. What lurks in the shadows of Honeymoon ...
Style: slasher, bloody, grindhouse
Plot: wedding, maniac, island, honeymoon, murderer, stalker, serial murder, female nudity, murder of a nude woman, coffee, serial killer, past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.1
 11K
Intruder (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Style: slasher, disturbing, bloody, retro, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, gory, violence, insanity, supermarket, murder, law enforcement, rivalry, stalking, danger, who done it ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.0
 95
Evil Night (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A group of rich college brats conspire to play a prank on Jimmy Fisher, the school nerd. But when Jimmy ends up unconscious, the co-eds leave him and head out to a party. What they don't realize is that, when Jimmy wakes up, the evil inside of ...
Style: slasher, slasher horror
Plot: killer clown, serial killer, killer, amusement park, prank, stalker, violence, blood, revenge, murder, psychopath, psycho killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 597
Blood Song (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, bloody, independent film, psychological thriller
Plot: serial killer, maniac, exploitation, murderer, mental institution, murder, paranormal, escaped mental patient, stalker, blood, insane, criminally insane ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.1
 797
Santa Claws (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young man finds his divorced mother having sex with a man in a Santa Clause hat and shoots them both dead. Years later, now thinking he is Santa Clause, the man develops an obsession with an erotic horror film star named Raven and begins stalking ...
Style: christmas horror, slasher, bloody, independent film
Plot: christmas, xmas, holiday horror, holiday, killer santa claus, serial killer, haunted, obsession, female nudity, sex, psycho killer, psycho ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 1.9
 318
Nightstalker (2009)
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, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, blasphemy, gang violence, devil worship, satanist, violence, true crime, killer, stalking, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 3K
Hellbent (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Halloween in West Hollywood, two guys making out in a park are interrupted by a serial killer. Later that night, a group of gay kids decide to visit to the site of the murders.
Style: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, lgbt, murder, stalking, gay, gory, halloween, sex horror, bad guy, advocate, glbt ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 2.8
 579
Nutbag (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A serial killer stalks prostitutes on the mean streets of Las Vegas.
Style: slasher, controversial, extreme horror, disturbing, slasher horror ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, violent, hooker, extreme, blood, prostitute, tarantula, spider, female nudity, violence against women, murder ...
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
New Year's Evil (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: new year's eve, holiday horror, serial killer, psychopath, murder, nightlife, mentally unstable, danger, investigation, showbiz, stalking, christmas ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 986
Video Violence (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A husband and wife open a video store in a new town, and come to find out that the locals only rent horror films and the "occasional triple X'er", and make their own snuff videos.
Style: slasher, mockumentary, spooky, independent film, black comedy ...
Plot: killer, filmmaking, evil computer, serial killer, video store, decapitation, dismemberment, female nudity, violence, murder, blood, body mutilation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.3
 355
Psycho Sisters (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mean and domineering Jane and the sweet and ditsy Jackie are two radically contrasting sisters who suffer from severe trauma after witnessing the murder/suicide of their parents as well as seeing their other sibling Janice raped and killed by her ...
Style: bloody, slasher, independent film, splatter, suspense
Plot: rape and revenge, woman with a gun, serial killer, rape, mutilation, dead children, mental patient, child murder, biker, sperm bank, house, castration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Skeleton Crew (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor, Dr. Anderson assumed the persona of "the Auteur," and began murdering his patients while filming the atrocities. Thirty years later, an American ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: filmmaking, mental institution, psychopath, confined, obsession, gory, heroes, losing-it hero, serial killer, hidden room, sadistic psychopath, profanity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.6
 116
Survival Knife (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, revenge, split personality, murder, female killer, haunted by the past, danger, woman with a gun, bad girl, psycho killer, psychopath, serial murder ...
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
 4.2
 1K
Wreckage (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, buddies, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, danger, car race, friends, ex soldier, irony, hillbilly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.1
 3K
Mortuary (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, horror comedy, bloody, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, cemetery, serial killer, teenager, mental disorder, woman with a gun, 666, undead, haunted, camp, haunted house, occult ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.2
 9K
Laid to Rest (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and ...
Style: scary, slasher, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, survival, gory, serial killer, female nudity, one man army, masked killer, danger, memory loss, amnesia, female protagonist, stalking ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in ...
Style: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, serial teen killer, camp, summer camp, torture, death, teenager, masked killer, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, masked killer, summer camp, gory, murder, friday the 13th, killing spree, woods, psychopath, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
S.I.C.K. Serial Insane Clown Killer (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A couple of friends are chased by a killer clown in the woods during a weekend.
Style: slasher, suspense
Plot: clown, killer clown, murder, evil clown, serial killer, amusement park, villain, doll, hooker, woods, crazy family, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
All Hallows' Eve (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While watching two children on Halloween night, a babysitter finds an old VHS tape in the kids' trick or treat bag. The tape features three tales of terror, all linked together by a murderous clown. As the night goes on strange things begin to ...
Style: slasher, scary, anthology, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: halloween, killer clown, evil clown, videotaping, clown, holiday horror, supernatural, youth, danger, woman in danger, babysitter, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie