Movies like Hellraiser 1987
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Hellraiser (1987)
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, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
Style:
scary, gothic, slasher, disturbing, splatter, psychological, dark fantasy, suspenseful, satanic, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, demon, torture, body horror, monster, supernatural, surrealism, violence, murder, vengeance, suspense, occult, cult, human sacrifice, death, brutality, violent, supernatural horror, creature, resurrection, sadism, undead, revenge, exploitation, cosmic horror ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
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Most similar movies to Hellraiser
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, weird, cult film and atmospheric films with plots about blood, murder, suspense, gory, violence, brutality and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Hellraiser: Nightbreed (1990), Lord of Illusions (1995), It Follows (2014), City of the Living Dead (1980), Clown (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style:
slasher, gothic, scary, splatter, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, supernatural, monster, hell, torture, maze, mental institution, violent, doctor, puzzle, violence, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, england, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pinhead is trapped in a sculpture and fortunately for him the sculpture is bought by a young playboy who owns his own night club. Pinhead busies himself escaping by getting the playboy to lure victims to his presence so he can use their blood. Once ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, demon, monster, reporter, nightclub, violence, murder of a policewoman, torture, murder, vietnam war, vengeance, macabre ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Style:
scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, monster, murder, afterlife, escape, heroic mission, obsessive quest, social misfits, psychiatrist, creature, supernatural, motel ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
100%
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Films like Final Destination
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style:
scary, gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, suicide, macabre, buried alive, violence, small town, apocalypse, violent, monster, priest, extreme violence, investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
usa, new england, new york, manhattan new york city, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
25K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.
Style:
scary, disturbing, slasher, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer clown, monster, demon, clown, supernatural, children, transformation, macabre, murder, brutality, violence, zombie ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, valentine's day, miner, masked killer, killing spree, youth, murder, love triangle, sadistic psychopath, violence, brutality ...
Time:
80s, year 1960, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, nightmare, murder, serial killer, suspense, fear, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, macabre, monster ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada, ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
94K
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 ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, ghost, supernatural, monster, belief, macabre, cult, investigation, urban decay, revenge, bee ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Movies like The Hills Have Eyes
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
82K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
suspenseful, surreal, satanic, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
revenge, lumberjack, cult leader, surrealism, chainsaw, cult, kidnapping, vengeance, mysticism, rage, brutality, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
xian, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
38K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, stylized, surreal, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, monster, hospital, insanity, another dimension, human experiment, cosmic horror, murder, mutation, macabre, cult, small town ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
177K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, zombie, demon, forest, demonic possession, monster, brutality, violence, isolation, transformation, extreme violence, fear ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
29%
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Movies similar to Evil Dead
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 ⇓
28%
105K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, psychopath, macabre, mind game, fbi, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her ...
Style:
scary, bloody, gothic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, suspense, dracula, female protagonist, party, monster, survival, fight, wedding, suicide, victim, couple relations ...
Place:
new york, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
Style:
slasher, parody, humorous, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, virginity, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, survival, camp, satire, characters murdered one by one, scream queen ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, year 1987, year 1957
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style:
atmospheric, slasher, dark, scary, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, suspense, sociopath, murder, assassination attempt, injection, mind control, brutality, corporation, loss of girlfriend, graphic violence, sadism ...
Time:
near future
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Saw
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, suspense, macabre, serial killer, psychopath, sadistic horror, psycho killer, massacre, sadistic killer, survival, road trip, outback ...
Time:
year 1999, 21st century
Place:
australia, texas, sydney australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, torture, cannibalism, survival, rape, fear, human monster, stranded, victim, kidnapping, trapped, massacre ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, intense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, supernatural, found footage, quarantine, trapped, twists and turns, suspense, infection, demon, isolation, demonic possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, beast, female werewolf, transformation, supernatural, murder, masturbation, hospital, suspense, teenage life, on the run, female masturbation ...
Place:
canada, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies similar to The Descent
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
tunnel, subway, train, macabre, chase, violent, woman in danger, insanity, torture, deadly creature, murder, monster ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
169K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, poltergeist, psychic, suspense, suburban life, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, haunted, suburbs ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
28%
31K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, killer child, breaking and entering, violence, isolation, forest, couples, stranger, invasion, teenage life, suspense, evil child ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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