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Kill Theory (2009)
8K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style:
scary, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, suspense, rough, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, torture, murder, group of friends, mind game, psycho killer, trap, trapped, female nudity, game of death, friendship, confined, rivalry, basement, strangled to death, psycho, love triangle, betrayal, murderer, escape room, isolation, moral dilemma, survival horror, friends, gory ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, slasher and suspense films with plots about survival, serial killer, deadly, psychopath, danger, murder and gory mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Kill Theory: Dead Tone (2007), Timber Falls (2007), The Belko Experiment (2016), House of Wax (2005), Saw (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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226K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
90K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Similarity:
100%
118K
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Similarity:
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27K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Movie in collections
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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100%
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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