Movies like Mikey
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Mikey (1992)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died of mysterious "accidents" that weren't really accidents at all. Mikey is a cold blooded killer, and it doesn't take long for him to aim his sights on his new adoptive family and anyone else who stands in his way.
Style:
slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, controversial, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, realistic, surprise ending
Plot:
evil child, psychopath, killer child, orphan, children, obsession, serial killer, juvenile delinquency, electrocution, adoption, unlikely criminals, friendship, murder, boy, youth, jealousy, murder of family, creepy child, suspense, school, neighbor, murderer, psycho, demonic possession, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s
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Most similar movies to Mikey
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and slasher films with plots about deadly, danger, murder, psychopath, serial killer, gory and suspense mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Mikey: Daddy's Girl (1996), Devil Times Five (1974), Bloody Birthday (1981), The Paper Boy (1994), Beware: Children at Play (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style:
realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
killer child, evil child, school, murder, psychopath, father, family relations, boarding school, childhood trauma, obsession, suspense, girl ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot:
evil child, murder, mental illness, escaped mental patient, isolation, winter, teenage life, violence spree, obsession, child murders an adult, survival, snow ...
Time:
70s
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary ...
Plot:
evil child, solar eclipse, birthday, elementary school, children, family life, supernatural, patricide, child in peril, psychopath, teenage life, violence spree ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, year 1970, 70s
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40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the ...
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, realistic, slasher ...
Plot:
paperboy, obsession, mentally unstable, psychopath, family relations, homecoming, estate, stalking, small town, murder, killer child, serial killer ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back. After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult ...
Style:
slasher, epic, controversial, psychological, campy ...
Plot:
youth, evil child, bad kids, creepy kid, virus, violent, murder, human sacrifice, blond boy, child murderess, dead boy, mother kills own child ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they ...
Style:
slasher, scary, unusual plot structure, surreal, pastoral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, children, killer child, demon, teenager, cult, reporter, investigation, small town, murder, creepy child, religion ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
killer child, husband wife relationship, psychopath, evil child, family problems, twins, found footage, family life, siblings relations, suspense, halloween, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for ...
Style:
scary, slasher, humorous, unusual plot structure, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer child, scarecrow, supernatural, demon, cult, religion, killer scarecrow, youth, vengeance, creepy child, zombie, violence ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.
Style:
slasher, campy, sexy, scary, erotic ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, murder, hitchhiking, terror, taxi, beach, obsession, whodunit, caravan, female serial killer, captive ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, profiler, suspense, psychopath, murder, stalking, phone terror, graphic violence, sexual content, deadly, danger, telephone ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Eden Lake similar movies
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, psychiatrist, violence, violent, high school, evil ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1963, 20th century ...
Place:
california, illinois, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cult, killer child, children, suspense, religion, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, good versus evil, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, mind game, uncover truth, stalking, estate, secret past, husband wife relationship, murder, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, cell phone, confined, university ...
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
child as adult, boy, psychopath, baby, family relations, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, mind game, rivalry, coming of age, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, surprise ending, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, murder, torture, survival, mind game, confined, friendship, trapped, rivalry, murderer, suspense, group of friends ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness ...
Style:
slasher, scary, unusual plot structure, pastoral, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer child, teenager, murder, supernatural, chase, preacher, dreams, suspense, violence, destiny, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, scary ...
Plot:
orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, adoption, parents and children, ghost, obsession, supernatural ability, adopted son, children, violent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, sole survivor, haunted by the past, woman in danger, escapades, survival, evil child, creepy child, youth, bad kids, psycho ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, slasher
Audience:
teens
Plot:
religions or cults, supernatural, youth, supernatural ability, confined, curses spells and rituals, isolation, farmhouse, telekinesis, religion, killer child, creepy child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Case 39 similar movies
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, violence, masked killer, suspense, murder, chase, escaped prisoner, comeback, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, youth, forest, survival, strong violent content, rivalry, vengeance, friendship, teenager, suspense, camp, violence against women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that ...
Style:
fairy tale, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
high school student, suspense, psychopath, brutality, murder, youth, violence, serial murder, violent, teenager, revenge, chase ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
suspense, rock, survival, rave, teenage life, stalking, murder, serial killer, rock and roll, psychopath, psycho killer, serial murder ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska this remake of the 1984 original (based on Stephen King's 1977 short story) centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, sad ...
Plot:
ritual, children, cornfield, suspense, society, evil wins, sacrifice, rivalry, teenager, human sacrifice, murder, cult ...
Time:
year 1963, 70s, year 1975, 21st century
Place:
usa, nebraska, asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
orphan, suspense, adoption, killer child, murder, twists and turns, female psychopath, mysterious character, parents and children, fear, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, evil man, psychopath, missing child, serial killer, confined, child in peril, hostage, woman in danger, isolation, child, ghost ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, serious, suspenseful, scary
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, mind game, survival, murder, mental illness, investigation, law enforcement, mentally unstable, master criminal, doctors and patients ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Actors: Flavor Flav, Dante Basco, Chico Benymon, Andrea Bogart, James Ferris
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, heist, murder, psychopath, legends and myths, college, storm, violence, blaxploitation, violence spree, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, rough, suspenseful, scary
Plot:
murder, serial killer, forest, supernatural, psychopath, survival, isolation, suspense, revenge, decapitation, camping, lost in the woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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