Movies like Near Dark

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Near Dark (1987)
 6.9
 44K
Near Dark (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Style: scary, road movie, gothic, dark, tense, creepy, suspense, atmospheric, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, femme fatale, hitchhiker, goth, farm, truck, motel, blood, monster, small town, kidnapping, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, bloodsucker, transformation, violence, immortality, rescue, danger, dangerous attraction, missing person, on the road, father daughter relationship, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: oklahoma, austin texas, nebraska, usa, texas, kansas
Keyword: retrospective, disgust, fang, candy

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Most similar movies to Near Dark

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, slasher and serious films with plots about deadly, murder, blood, violence, danger, monster and gore mostly in Horror, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Near Dark: Vampyres (1974), The Lost Boys (1987), The Forsaken (2001), Dolls (1986), Deadgirl (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Vampyres (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A lesbian vampire couple haunt an abandoned castle and the English country side around it. They prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce, and murder.
Style: sexy, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: vampire, erotica, lesbian vampire, lesbian, femme fatale, supernatural, female vampire, lust, sexy female vampire, murder, couples, captive woman ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 160K
The Lost Boys (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style: black comedy, scary, surprise ending, teen, gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, supernatural, single mother, goth, teenage boy, amusement park, motorcycle, vampire hunter, blood, fear, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.3
 9K
The Forsaken (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
Style: suspense, scary, road movie, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: vampire, hitchhiker, female vampire, virus, desert, gory, infected, brutality, vampire bite, supernatural, blood, transformation ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: colorado, california, usa, arizona, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 13K
Dolls (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.
Style: scary, slasher, atmospheric, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: evil doll, doll, toys, supernatural, killer doll, youth, macabre, danger, ghost, monster, puppet, house ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.5
 20K
Deadgirl (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, controversial, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, sexual abuse, necrophilia, supernatural, depravity, mentally unstable, moral dilemma, best friend, high school, hospital, bullying, undead ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 128K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.3
 24K
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
Style: suspense, slasher, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, supernatural, incestuous relationship, vampire, mother son incest, incestuous sex, monster, sex scene, kidnapping, cat, stephen king, violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana, usa, california, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 7K
Silent Rage (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Style: slasher, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, murder, monster, chase, serial killer, survival, mad scientist, hospital, small town, mixed martial arts, home invasion, maniac ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.6
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Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, macabre, massacre, murder, chainsaw, american horror, psychopath, masked killer, cannibalism, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 196K
Evil Dead (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, demonic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: gory, demon, supernatural, zombie, demonic possession, blood, violence, extreme violence, cabin in the woods, addiction, woods, fear ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: halloween, psychopath, gory, macabre, urban legend, violent, supernatural, killer clown, brutality, murder, torture, evil wins ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, massacre, psychopath, torture, chainsaw, murder, gory, insanity, masked killer, violence, human monster, backwoods ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 26K
Nightbreed (1990)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Style: scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, monster, murder, afterlife, escape, obsessive quest, heroic mission, social misfits, creature, creature feature, psychiatrist, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 31K
Silver Bullet (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, tense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: werewolf, beast, transformation, supernatural, monster, small town, danger, murder, escapades, social relations, stephen king, macabre ...
Time: 80s, year 1976, 70s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, stylized, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, satan, devil, zombie, antichrist, cosmic horror, monster, occult, church, end of the world, research ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 40K
The Howling (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style: scary, suspenseful, gothic, slasher, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, lycanthropy, psychiatrist, murder, creature feature, shapeshifting, transformation, supernatural, macabre, outdoor sex, man beast ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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30 Days of Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspense, atmospheric, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, winter, survival, gory, snow, monster, supernatural, zombie, sunrise, blood, creature ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, oceania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After 23 horrifying days of gorging on human flesh, an ancient creature known as the Creeper embarks on a final voracious feeding frenzy, terrorizing a group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches stranded on a remote highway when ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, scarecrow, supernatural, beast, demon, monster, farm, cheerleader, deadly creature, creature, violence, cornfield ...
Time: year 2003, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 16K
The Funhouse (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: carnival, murder, halloween, monster, brutality, clown, macabre, serial killer, runaway, violence, blood, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 5th century, year 1975, 15th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 63K
Vampires (1998)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Style: scary, bloody, rough, cult classic, splatter ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampire hunter, gory, vampire slayer, transformation, death, blood, vengeance, female vampire, vampire bite, priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.2
 27K
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, witch, vengeance, murder, pumpkin, revenge, monster, macabre, father son relationship, curse, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, torture, gory, murder, cruelty, cannibal, violence, sadism, chainsaw, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, torture, texas chainsaw massacre, survival, psychopath, murder, masked killer, psychological torture, hitchhiker ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, florida, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 101K
Halloween II (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, psycho killer, masked killer, masked villain, male nudity, american horror, monster, stalking ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.9
 36K
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his ...
Style: gothic, scary, sexy, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: vampire, dracula, chase, supernatural, death, betrayal, violence, blood, brutality, good versus evil, danger, legends and myths ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new orleans, london, usa, europe, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Horror Show (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his ...
Style: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, female nudity, supernatural, execution, supernatural horror, monster, haunted house, paranormal, dead, electric chair, bare breasts, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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