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Insanitarium (2008)
5K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths
Style:
scary, rough, disturbing, tense, serious, suspense, slasher, psychological horror
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, zombie, psychopath, rescue, confined, experiment gone awry, doctors and patients, mad scientist, gory, isolation, danger, race against time, power relations, infection, violence, virus, psychiatric ward, shock treatment, psychiatric hospital, apocalypse, epidemic, hostage, hospital, mental illness, disease ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and rough films with plots about danger, deadly, gory, survival, gore, confined and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Insanitarium: Detour (2003), Timber Falls (2007), The Hitchhiker (2007), Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011), The Cellar Door (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of ...
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, survival, sex, redneck, youth, isolation, danger, gory, escapades, mine, eating human flesh ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, forest, gory, danger, fanatic, survival, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, mountain, rescue, murder, religions or cults ...
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia
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100%
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:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah, las vegas, nevada
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style:
scary, slasher, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, zombie, quarantine, plague, virus, infection, zombification, confinement indoors, stewardess, airport, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing person, serial killer, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, obsession, confined, isolation, captivity, danger, master criminal, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense
Plot:
zombie, deadly creature, chaos, danger, isolation, survival, violence spree, disorder, toxic, zombie attack, virus, infected ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
human experiment, survival, experiment gone awry, danger, hospital, isolation, mind game, attempted rape, self healing, buddies, medicine, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, losing-it hero, isolation, murder, mental illness, mental institution, patient, danger, obsession, doctors and patients, mind game, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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7K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This new Train tells the tale of an American wrestling team who board a train that just so happens to be used as a supermarket for organ harvesters.
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, gory, train, serial killer, transplant, characters murdered one by one, trapped, psychopath, youth, danger, black market, railway ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
Style:
dark, scary, suspense, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, werewolf, vengeance, brutality, gory, rivalry, heroes, escapades, imaginary, revenge, fantasy world ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, long beach california, alaska
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, psychopath, convict, woman in danger, obsession, violence spree, isolation, serial killer, murder, night, evil wins, female detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living. In the remote Mexican village of Santa Bonita, a nightmare lay buried for over a century. But when a group of hard-partying students from the OC are stranded in ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
zombie, human sacrifice, survival, danger, supernatural, gory, massacre, day of the dead, nudity, holiday horror, living dead, undead ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the depths of the Tasmanian wilderness a group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger. They encounter a group of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce, who was hung for cannibalism in 1824, out to find fresh breeding stock.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cannibal, survival, serial killer, werewolf, psychopath, murder, wilderness, backwoods, rescue, danger, isolation, amputation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
australia, oceania, tasmania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jacki, a scientist involved in genetic research, meets Tom, a young modern dancer who is suffering from a degenerative nerve disease. Jacki experiments with using genetic material taken from a cat to cure him, but the cure has side effects, and Tom ...
Style:
rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tragic romance, love triangle, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, danger, woman in danger, supernatural, sexual relations, doctors and patients, strong sexual content, half human, dancer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. ...
Style:
dark, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
living dead, zombie, small town, danger, teenage life, gory, social relations, infection, night of the living dead, violence, zombie attack, monster ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, law enforcement, mentally unstable, investigation, master criminal, gory, doctors and patients ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is ...
Style:
suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
prison, zombie, plague, supernatural, chaos, gory, violence, save the day, experiment gone awry, undead, infected, virus ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, deadly creature, danger, youth, isolation, teenage life, plague, gory, chaos, small town, lake, zombie ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
Style:
bloody, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female psychopath, sex, evil wins, torture, gory, psychopath, amputation, confined, captivity, strong violent content, society, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
359
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, experimental
Plot:
doctors and patients, experiment gone awry, hospital, chaos, laboratory, virus, epidemic, hiv, survival, danger, death, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
living dead, chaos, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, plague, chaos and mayhem, dystopian future, race against time, survival, military hospital, zombie ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
couples, psychopath, brutality, danger, survival, violence, vengeance, castration, torture, killer, marijuana, revenge ...
Place:
oceania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an ...
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
infection, post apocalypse, disease, brutality, pandemic, survival, danger, virus, body horror, gory, quarantine, infected ...
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, cult horror ...
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, infection, murder, uncover truth, psychopath, gory, danger, police investigation, vengeance, kids in trouble, dark humor ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
621
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
prison, psychopath, serial killer, survival, prison life, confined, life is a bitch, danger, murder, unknown killer, murder mystery, stalker ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, infection, rat, dangerous animal, survival, supernatural, plague, eaten alive, virus, epidemic, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A perfect bank heist turns deadly when the robbers and their hostages flee to the abandoned underground subway station where they encounter the Trackman, a deformed madman that prowls the darkness.
Style:
slasher, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, gory, supernatural, criminal heroes, danger, isolation, heist, violence, ghost house, exploitation, subway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
19%
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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, bloody, suspense, creepy, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, gory, found footage, trapped, quarantine, demon, supernatural horror, demonic possession, supernatural, infection, evil wins ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, danger, mentally unstable, partner, woods, serial killer, manhunt, survival, violence, gory, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
isolation, zombie, virus, bereavement, plague, danger, gory, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, survival, mutant, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
18%
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