Movies like Insanitarium

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Insanitarium (2008)
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Insanitarium (2008)
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: zombie, mental institution, survival, psychopath, rescue, confined, experiment gone awry, doctors and patients, mad scientist, gory, isolation, danger, race against time, power relations, infection, violence, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, hostage, hospital, mental illness, disease, infected, exploitation ...
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, gore, survival, confined and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Insanitarium: Hell's Highway (2003), Timber Falls (2007), Flight of the Living Dead (2007), Zombie Town (2007), Bloodwork (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hell's Highway (2003)
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, survival, desert, redneck, youth, isolation, danger, gory, escapades, cannibal, sex, mine ...
Time: 21st century
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Timber Falls (2007)
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, suspense, bleak, slasher, psychological ...
Plot: murder, rescue, survival, serial killer, gory, danger, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, fanatic, camp, religions or cults, mountain ...
Place: west virginia, usa, virginia
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Flight of the Living Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, airplane, plague, stewardess, survival, confined, confinement indoors, deadly virus, air disaster, rescue, danger, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: paris france, usa, europe, los angeles, pentagon
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79%
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Zombie Town (2007)
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, rough, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: zombie, plague, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, violence spree, experiment gone awry, isolation, disorder, toxic, mad scientist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bloodwork (2012)
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, psychological ...
Plot: buddies, human experiment, survival, experiment gone awry, danger, hospital, isolation, mind game, medicine, serial killer, virus, attempted rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
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: scary, dark, suspense, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, vampire, werewolf, gory, revenge, escapades, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, mythology, fantasy world, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, long beach california, alaska
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Escapee (2011)
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, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Train (2008)
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, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gory, serial killer, train, transplant, psychopath, youth, danger, black market, railway, murder, redneck, party ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
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: human sacrifice, zombie, survival, danger, supernatural, gory, massacre, day of the dead, living dead, undead, ghost, nudity ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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Patrick (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, telekinesis, hospital, psychopath, danger, confined, mental institution, isolation, power relations, doctors and patients, psychic power, violence ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, insanity, deadly virus, survival, gory, infection, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, transformation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
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The Cellar Door (2007)
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: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
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The Hitchhiker (2007)
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, gory, on the road, mind game, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, desert, murder, driver, taxi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
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 ...
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Place: pennsylvania, usa
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22%
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Neighbor (2009)
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: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
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 ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
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, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival horror, deadly creature, danger, youth, plague, isolation, teenage life, gory, chaos, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dead Men Walking (2005)
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, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: prison, zombie, plague, supernatural, chaos, gory, violence, save the day, experiment gone awry, undead, infected, virus ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Children of the Living Dead (2001)
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: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: living dead, zombie, plague, small town, danger, teenage life, gory, social relations, violence, night of the living dead, monster, zombie attack ...
Place: pennsylvania
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[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ángela Vidal the young television reporter who entered the building with the fireman, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don?t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional ...
Style: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, quarantine, zombie outbreak, demonic possession, gory, virus, found footage, isolation, chaos, danger, violence spree, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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Mulberry Street (2006)
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, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, plague, virus, epidemic, danger ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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20%
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Infection (2019)
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, virus, post apocalypse, disease, zombie apocalypse, zombie, pandemic, survival, danger, gory, body horror, brutality ...
Place: venezuela
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Tooth and Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war ...
Style: scary, apocalyptic, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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[Rec] 2 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: scary, rough, demonic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, gory, supernatural, found footage, trapped, infection, quarantine, demon, isolation, demonic possession, monster ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
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20%
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Dark Souls (2010)
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, rough, suspenseful, cult horror ...
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Time: 21st century
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Trackman (2007)
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, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, gory, criminal heroes, danger, supernatural, heist, isolation, violence, exploitation, ghost house, subway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Storm Warning (2007)
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, castration, survival, danger, brutality, torture, sadism, mutilation, violence, confined, forces of nature ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Asylum Blackout (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, survival, isolation, blackout, psychopath, security guard, confinement indoors, danger, escapades, friendship, gory, trapped ...
Time: year 2011, year 1989, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Trail of Blood (2011)
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, rough, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, mentally unstable, partner, murder, woods, serial killer, manhunt, survival, violence, violence spree, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
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