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The Initiation (1984)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered illegally. Trapped in a new nightmare, Kelly must fight for survival.
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, splatter, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ritual, campus, sorority, murder, female protagonist, nightmare, prank, female nudity, mental institution, secret, supernatural, danger, haunted by the past, college, student life, woman in danger, college life, student, childhood trauma, teenager, store, exploitation, psychopath, killer ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, slasher, suspenseful and slasher horror films with plots about deadly, murder, serial killer, gory, teenager, youth and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Initiation: Cherry Falls (1999), Sorority Row (2009), Hell Night (1981), Final Exam (1981), Black Christmas (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, murder, father daughter relationship, virgin, gang rape, high school, teenager, dead teenager, sheriff, small town, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, suspense, teen horror, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murder, escape, revenge, voodoo, masked killer, haunted by the past, hotel, female protagonist, resort, island ...
Time:
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Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, ...
Style:
slasher, brutal, teen, bloody, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
sorority, college, mystery killer, college life, cheerleading, sociopath, prank, serial killer, therapist, masked killer, prank gone wrong, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, halloween, serial killer, brutality, gory, monster, survival, decapitation, psycho killer, blood, student life, stalking ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, psychopath, serial killer, campus, prank, high school life, youth, bare chested male, male victim, dead teenager, school, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, danger, violence spree, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, haunted by the past, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, christmas, stalking, campus, supernatural, school, gory, college life, law enforcement, danger, frame up ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, holiday horror, high school, track and field, murder, female nudity, dead teenager, masked killer, survival, exploitation, fear, high school sports ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style:
slasher, twist ending, cult classic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, holiday horror, plot twist, vengeance, gory, revenge, blood, birthday party, mystery killer, holiday, teenager ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
usa, new england, virginia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, swimming pool, masked killer, serial killer, youth, high school, stalking, swimming, murder, mysterious character, student life, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
czech republic, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 60s, year 1965
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
killer, masked killer, gory, friday the 13th, masked man, serial teen killer, murder, serial killer, male victim, outdoor sex, murder of a nude woman, summer camp ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, masked killer, violence, homicidal maniac, mental institution, amusement park, dead teenager, murderer, murder, youth, gory, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2003, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
Style:
slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1974, a little boy tries to talk a little girl into getting naked for him, which she refuses and calls him a pervert. He then runs home, which happens to be a brothel where several (extremely unattractive) hookers and their johns roam around in ...
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slasher, independent film, slasher horror, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past ...
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slasher, suspense, spooky, tense, scary ...
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teens
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, cult classic, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, summer camp, masked man, killing spree, camp, gory, friday the 13th, murder, psycho killer, sex, serial teen killer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, student life, danger, murder, gory, youth, voodoo, twists and turns, curses spells and rituals, college, mysticism, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As a child, Ed was cleaning his father's hunting rifles for as part of a surprise birthday treat for his old man when one firearm accidentally discharges fatally striking his own mother in the back. His father, Jack Sr came home, saw his wife ...
Style:
disturbing, slasher, psychological, serious, realistic ...
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teens
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Time:
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Place:
north carolina
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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teens
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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