Movies like The Locals

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The Locals (2003)
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The Locals (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two best friends, Grant and Paul, hit the country road for a night of fun, but unfortunately take a short cut to their fate... where they meet the Locals.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending, disturbing, twisted, serious, slasher
Plot: survival, supernatural, best friend, isolation, buddies, on the road, chase, danger, ghost, redneck, road accident, paranormal, brutality, monster, friendship, manhunt, culture clash, showdown, near death experience, serial killer, spirit, phantom, terror, plot twist, zombie ...
Time: contemporary
Place: new zealand

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Most similar movies to The Locals

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, ghost, survival, isolation and gory mostly in Horror, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Locals: Trespassers (2006), Wrong Turn (2003), Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001), The Roost (2005), Pray for Morning (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Trespassers (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: survival, ghost, supernatural, wilderness, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, isolation, escapades, leadership, danger, vengeance, buddies ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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71%
Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
Style: suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, hidden identity, river, water, monster, urban, obsessive quest, city life, cabin in the woods, villain played by lead actor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Roost (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Part of a "special" late-nite television program...Four friends on their way to a wedding find themselves marooned on a mysterious farm. Creatures of the night awaken and the undead rise, as a night of relentless horror...Begins!
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: zombie, road trip, survival, gory, isolation, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, on the road, redneck, killer bat, free spirited ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Pray for Morning (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, supernatural, ghost, survival, captivity, danger, gory, riddles and clues, murder, isolation, buddies, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, danger, supernatural, buddies, ghost, best friend, afterlife, murder, genie, paranormal, devil, vengeful ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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52%
The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, danger, survival, isolation, forest, revenge, camping, decapitation, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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52%
Black Cadillac (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: car chase, mind game, friendship, danger, escapades, chase, survival, murder, rivalry, car, redneck, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Claw (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two friends forced to spend the night in a ghost town find themselves hunted by a prehistoric predator.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary
Plot: dinosaur, creature, monster, ghost, creature feature, rescue, killings, death, peril, supernatural ability, youth, chase ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 982
Detention (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, prank, youth, high school life, isolation, teenage life, high school, detention, stoner, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Entity (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, found footage, investigation, confined, uncover truth, danger, isolation, woods, haunted, afterlife, haunted house ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.1
 679
Killer Holiday (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, amusement park, psychopath, buddies, danger, stalking, on the road, killer clown, road trip, survival, violence, redneck ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
House of Fears (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: halloween, supernatural, survival, confined, ghost, danger, teenage life, killer clown, supernatural power, clown, haunted house, half sister ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Dead Room (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets ...
Style: scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: spirit, haunted house, mind game, fear, danger, brutality, supernatural, haunted, trapped, ghost, vengeance, farmhouse ...
Place: oceania, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
48%
Small Town Folk (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: High above the tiny hamlet of Grockleton stands Beesley Manor, home to the ominous Landlord and his...shall we say, genetically ambiguent...minions, including Pooch, a cross-eyed marksman, and Dobbin, who likes to drink gasoline. The Landlord keeps ...
Style: scary, rough, disturbing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, serial killer, small town, danger, psychopath, race against time, ghost, rescue, woman in danger, gory, small town life, backwoods ...
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48%
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The Hunters (2011)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alice and her friends are approaching the end of the school year where their dead-end lives will end and the chance of a new life will begin. Before heading off to college they spend one last day together in the woods, the one part of town that has ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woods, survival, danger, isolation, chase, wilderness, violence spree, ghost, serial killer, lost, lost in the woods, manhunt ...
Time: 21st century
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Lost Signal (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot: danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, survival, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, blood, new year ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Evil Deeds (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Thief encounters a strange old Hermit who tells him tales of Evil Deeds - including a Detective's search for a escaped mental patient, a tale of young lady and her new beau who arrange to have her abusive father killed and the body disposed ...
Style: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, zombie, revenge, alien technology, mental patient, violence, murder, brutality, woman in danger, psychopath, danger, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Long Time Dead (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spirit, supernatural, seance, genie, curses spells and rituals, game, serial killer, youth, murder, supernatural power, danger, vengeance ...
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48%
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Choking Hazard (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal ...
Style: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, survival, supernatural, silly humor, danger, deadly creature, gory, isolation, wilderness, woods, hotel, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
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47%
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: monster, dangerous animal, curses spells and rituals, danger, survival, murder, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Amityville Harvest (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: murder, paranormal investigation, supernatural power, friendship, chase, supernatural, evil, monster, fear, friends, hunting, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, friendship, isolation, danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, island, graphic violence, redneck, youth, violent content, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Island of the Dead (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stranded on a deserted island, a group of people struggle to survive against a swarm of supernatural flies.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: confined, supernatural, survival, isolation, deadly creature, danger, island, killer animal, zombie, rapper, siege, dangerous animal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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47%
 4.1
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Hell's Highway (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Four college friends take a fateful road trip. The road, Hell's Highway--a direct route to terror. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the ...
Style: semi serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, afterlife, supernatural, on the road, danger, psychopath, lesbian rape, gory, redneck, terror, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
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47%
 4.3
 773
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 ⇓
47%
 4.0
 769
The Cradle (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ghost child, riddles and clues, supernatural, ghost, curse, curses spells and rituals, gory, isolation, family life, captivity, danger, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.5
 12K
Rest Stop (2006)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The film follows Nicole Carrow, a young woman who is threatened by a maniac serial killer, after her boyfriend Jess, is abducted in a rest stop.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, survival, gory, danger, kidnapped, redneck, chase, isolation, on the road, hostage, torture ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.5
 2K
Plague Town (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, slasher, bleak ...
Plot: mutant, youth, danger, kidnapping, social relations, pregnancy, babies and infants, redneck, incest, serial killer, demonic possession, backwoods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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