Movies like Murder by Phone

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Murder by Phone (1982)
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Murder by Phone (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Style: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird, eighties
Plot: canuxploitation, machine, revenge, murder, technology, exploitation, redheaded woman, maniac, murderer, train, investigation, violence, student, friendship, blonde, death, map, photographer, science, boy, teenage girl, tragedy, taxi, elevator, bank ...
Time: year 1982
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Most similar movies to Murder by Phone

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, slasher and scary films with plots about murder, telephone call, blood, violence, night, deadly and apology mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Murder by Phone: Thirst (1979), Out of the Body (1989), Doomwatch (1972), Mommy (1995), Possessor (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Thirst (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to ...
Style: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, serious ...
Plot: vampire, kidnapping, occult, supernatural, blood, brainwashing, exploitation, nurse, swimming pool, religion, paranormal, macabre ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Out of the Body (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
Style: independent film, tragic ending
Plot: serial killer, psychic, telekinesis, demonic possession, blond, cycling, jail cell, staircase, mobile phone, evil wins, drunkard, open ending ...
Place: sydney australia
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89%
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Doomwatch (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Style: psychotronic, depressing, independent film, serious, scary ...
Plot: monster, folk horror, european, lost soul, virus, environmental, infected, contamination, fish, heroes, violence spree, danger ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Mommy (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Patty McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann -- so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" award again, she solves the problem by ...
Style: slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, youth, obsession, investigation, psychopath, murder, dedicated lawyer, mind game, legal, law enforcement, rivalry, police investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 6.5
 45K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: tech noir, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, sadism, technology, assassination attempt, suicide by cop ...
Time: 2020s, near future
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84%
 6.7
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Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Mr Wrong (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Meg moves out of her parents' home and buys a beautiful old Jaguar in a bid for independence. She begins to get strange feelings about the car. It seems to have a presence beyond the usual "personality" attributed to eccentric old ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: ghost, automobile, killer car, terror, car crash, feminism, murder, missing person, ghost car, woman, killed in a car crash, trapped in a car ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.5
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Pin (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict ...
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: doll, puppet, imaginary friend, mental illness, murder, exploitation, mannequin, mind game, plot twist, canuxploitation, mental disorder, evil doll ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 5.3
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Prom Night (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, suspense, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, serial killer, teenager, masked killer, prom, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, bullying, prom queen, sexual predator ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2016, year 1980, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
High Desert Kill (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Like every year, Jim, Ray, Brad and Paul leave the town for a week to go hunting in the woods. But this year everything is different: There's not a single animal to be found, the whole forest has fallen quiet. Two female campers they meet have ...
Style: psychotronic, weird
Plot: alien disguised as human, disguise, mental disorder, ufo, electrocution, murder, camping, human experiment, camping trip, isolation, strange behavior, desert ...
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Visiting Hours (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
Style: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, stalking, medical, psychopath, canuxploitation, danger, murder, woman in danger, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.1
 16K
Alligator (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Style: scary, stylized, suspense, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a ...
Style: slasher, detective, weird
Plot: serial killer, murder, killer, zodiac, exploitation, zombie, true crime, killing, psychotic, skirt, mystery killer, ford mustang ...
Place: bay area, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 4.9
 2K
Deadly Eyes (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, natural horror, bleak ...
Plot: rat, mutant, subway, cheerleader, canuxploitation, professor, city, rodent, giant monster, student athlete, virus, exploitation ...
Time: year 1982
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Pyx (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
Style: detective, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, canuxploitation, occult, hooker, devil, 666, drug, doom, death, murder, police detective, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Black Christmas (1974)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, bloody, grindhouse ...
Plot: christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, murder, telephone call, sorority, psychopath, holiday, serial murder, violence, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, near future, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.7
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Summer of 84 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
Style: suspense, disturbing, slasher, psychological, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, group of friends, friendship, psychopath, murder, neighbor, murder suspect, private investigation, basement, murder mystery, child killer, cop ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 2010s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.8
 14K
Terror Train (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, prank, masked killer, serial killer, train, magician, blood, psychopath, survival, stalking, holiday horror, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Deadly Force (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend ...
Style: cult classic, slasher, crime thriller, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: murder, murder investigation, taxi driver, serial killer, coroner, psycho, homicidal maniac, cop, cigarette smoking, cover up, photograph, false identity ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, killer child, orphan, pedophilia, poisoning, child, underage sex, friendship, murder, father, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Next of Kin (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
Style: scary, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, exploitation, diary, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, inheritance, youth, danger, female protagonist, old woman, old man ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style: slasher, splatter, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, miner, revenge, valentine's day, killing spree, masked killer, gory, holiday horror, youth, murder, canuxploitation, love triangle ...
Time: 80s, year 1960, year 1980
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.6
 17K
Chopping Mall (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. ...
Style: slasher, stylized, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, gory, murder, person on fire, killer robot, blood, monster, survival, party, androids and robots, technology gone awry ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style: slasher, twist ending, splatter, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, gory, revenge, blood, holiday horror, camp, plot twist, holiday, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.2
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Snapshot (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure ...
Style: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Plot: photographer, model, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, beach, fire, female protagonist, hairdresser, photograph, modeling, murder, advertising, gay ...
Place: oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.6
 8K
Xtro (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide ...
Style: surreal, grindhouse, slasher, retro, classic horror ...
Plot: alien abduction, alien, nudity, evil wins, female nudity, creature feature, alien invasion, monster, birth, abduction, creature, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, year 2016, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.6
 6K
Curtains (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, supernatural, stalking, maniac, masked killer, psychopath, snow, danger, mental institution, down on your luck, killer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.2
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Body Harm (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, crime spree, person thought dead is alive, law enforcement, obsession, journalism, missing person, serial murder, murderer, murder victim, tragedy, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.0
 13K
Pieces (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, college, psychopath, danger, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, male nudity, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, year 1982, year 1942
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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