Movies like Fade to Black

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Fade to Black (1980)
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Fade to Black (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.
Style: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, black comedy, cult horror, independent film, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, obsession, blonde, nerd, murder, loner, mentally unstable, fan culture, insanity, paraplegic, stalking, danger, masturbation, survival, mental disorder, hollywood, stoner, filmmaking, guts, exploitation, american horror, male masturbation, psychopath as protagonist, mummy ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: los angeles
Keyword: watching a movie, gangsters, poster, visit, outburst, movie theatre

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Most similar movies to Fade to Black

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, slasher, scary and psychotronic films with plots about murder, psychopath, serial killer, blood, death, violence and screaming woman mostly in Horror, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fade to Black: Pet (2016), The Last Horror Film (1982), Office Killer (1997), Shocker (1989), Strangler vs Strangler (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pet (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, basement, kidnapping, captivity, stalking, psychopath, locked in a cage, disturbed individual, fear, stalker, animal shelter, obsessive love ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Horror Film (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
Style: slasher, cult classic, bloody, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, taxi, killer, teenager, mental disorder, exploitation, found footage, driver, stalker, investigation, mentally unstable, obsession ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, new york, europe, usa, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Office Killer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder ...
Style: psychological, slasher, black comedy, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: asthma, workplace, office, asthmatic, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, workplace romance, obsession, goofy hero, protagonist as suspect, evil woman ...
Time: 90s
Place: virginia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.5
 18K
Shocker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style: slasher, sadistic, splatter, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, police investigation, gory, malice, monster, obsession, evil, reincarnation, blood, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, year 1989
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Strangler vs Strangler (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes ...
Style: dark comedy, horror musical, cult classic, horror comedy, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, female nudity, strangulation, killing spree, police investigation, anonymous letter, telepathy, rock concert, opera, badass, love letter, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time: 80s
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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53%
 6.4
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Bad Samaritan (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, captive, investigation, violence, sadism, psycho killer, obsession, held captive, murder, sadist ...
Place: portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
Style: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: drag queen, gay, cross dressing, killing spree, bare chested male, gay interest, dark humor, outlaw, shovel as weapon, villain as protagonist, dead body, nudity ...
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Cutting Class (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following ...
Style: slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: male objectification, high school, serial killer, high school student, cheerleader, cheerleading, murder, psychopath, teenager, survival, dead teenager, killer ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. ...
Style: slasher, bloody, funny, dark, retro ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, massacre, high school, murder, gory, violence, chase, death, nudity, maniac, blood, killer ...
Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspected Barbara, a beautiful young innocent looking whose only concern seems to be the fashion. However, ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: female assassin, serial killer, murder, psychopath, sex addict, danger, amateur detective, violence spree, obsession, teachers and students, gory, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Style: grindhouse, southern gothic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: redneck, backwoods, rape, exploitation, racism, sexual abuse, blaxploitation, serial killer, underground, injustice, psychopath, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Killing Kind (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror ...
Plot: serial killer, gang rape, murder, exploitation, oedipus complex, mental disorder, sexual abuse, psychopath, mentally unstable, nudity, female nudity, strangulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Drone (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A newlywed couple is terrorized by a consumer drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: voyeurism, serial killer, robot, investigation, suspect, police detective, husband wife relationship, reincarnation, obsession, murder, seductive woman, hidden camera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Alien Zone (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A man who is having an affair with a married woman is dropped off on the wrong street when going back to his hotel. He takes refuge out of the rain when an old man invites him in. He turns out to be a mortician, who tells him the stories of the ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: exploitation, supernatural horror, psychopath, mortician, serial killer, on the run, violent content, haunted house, prison life, love affair, voyeurism, infidelity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, murder, psychopath, gory, burned alive, who done it, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, danger, mind game, obsession ...
Time: 2000s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Vagrant (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
Style: black comedy, detective, surprise ending, surreal, horror comedy ...
Plot: murder, paranoia, serial killer, insanity, panic, mental illness, yuppie, neurosis, nightmare, basement, murder suspect, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Halloween at Aunt Ethel's (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Everyone in town knows the story of Old Aunt Ethel. It's said she makes Halloween candy and pumpkin pie out of the kids that trick-or-treat at her house. This Halloween, the neighborhood teens are going to find out the truth.
Style: suspense, sexy, scary, freeze frame, horror comedy ...
Plot: halloween, cannibalism, teenage girl, urban legend, halloween party, voyeurism, group of friends, gross out humor, murder, party, sexual humor, prank ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Stepfather (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, maniac, murder of family, fake identity, new identity, killer, macabre, mental illness, murderer, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s
Place: turkey, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 10K
Anamorph (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, psychopath, investigation, law enforcement, murder, police station, uncover truth, supernatural, life is a bitch, who done it, danger ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, holiday, holiday horror, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 70s, year 1974, year 1971
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Greatful Dead (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
Style: surreal, slasher, disturbing, freeze frame, detective ...
Plot: extreme, women, asian prostitute, female criminal, hypocritical woman, female on male rape, japanese woman, kidnapping, high school, estranged sister, female nudity, coworker relationship ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and ...
Style: scary, slasher horror, bloody, slasher, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, psychopath, sociopath, serial killer, camp, female serial killer, cheerleader, female nudity, sex scene, gory, survival, murder ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Chamber of Horrors (1966)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, jack the ripper, prosthetic hand, wax museum, insanity, necrophilia, strangulation, investigation, amputation, dismemberment ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: baltimore, mexico, latin america, usa, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Feeding Mr. Baldwin (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A house sitter bites off more than he can chew when a dead body mysteriously shows up at the estate he's watching.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot: gangster, psychological manipulation, friendship between men, violent behavior, dog, gory, estate, trauma, shakespeare, cycling, house, television reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Mad Butcher (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Austria, Monaco
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, serious ...
Plot: cannibalism, serial killer, butcher, cannibal, macabre, maniac, murderer, mental patient, dark humor, psychopath, mental institution, murder ...
Time: 70s, 1930s
Place: austria, europe, central europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 36K
P2 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Angela Baker, a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a ...
Style: slasher, scary, horror comedy, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, summer camp, camp, gory, teenager, murder, decapitation, blonde, fear, killer, teenage life, who done it ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 31K
Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.6
 2K
Frightmare (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final ...
Style: slasher, horror comedy, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, exploitation, survival, cemetery, teenager, mental disorder, paranormal, undead, living dead, cannibal, dead, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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