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Night School (1981)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, bloody, detective, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, night school, female nudity, suspicion, pregnancy, riddles and clues, campus, love affair, danger, woman in danger, machete, teenager, violence, chase, teacher, exploitation, motorcycle, desire, anthropologist, apartment building, sexual attraction, survival, killer, porn ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
boston, texas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, serious, slasher horror and scary films with plots about psychopath, serial killer, murder, blood, killer, murderer and body count mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Night School: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Cherry Falls (1999), The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982), Blood of the Undead (1976), The Slayer (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, teen, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, serial killer, youth, teenage life, psychopath, teenager, mystery killer, friends, murder, gory, teenage sexuality, dead teenager ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, murder, father daughter relationship, virgin, gang rape, high school, teenager, dead teenager, sheriff, small town, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
christmas horror, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, christmas, stalking, campus, supernatural, school, gory, college life, law enforcement, danger, frame up ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wedding, maniac, stalking, obsession, woman in danger, danger, losing-it hero, exploitation, pursuit, murder, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, united kingdom, london, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying ...
Plot:
island, serial killer, nightmare, unknown killer, monster, fear, murder, beach, gory, exploitation, american horror, creature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, psychopath, serial killer, campus, prank, high school life, youth, bare chested male, male victim, dead teenager, school, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style:
slasher, independent film, bloody, psychotronic, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, prank, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, killer clown, voyeur, accidental death, dead woman, old woman, hallucination ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot:
murder, masked killer, masked man, obsession, masked villain, soldier, sadism, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, year 1944, year 1945, year 2016 ...
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, holiday horror, high school, track and field, murder, female nudity, dead teenager, masked killer, survival, exploitation, fear, high school sports ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Similarity:
42%
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:
surprise ending, slasher, retro, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, maniac, supernatural, stalking, casting couch, danger, down on your luck, canuxploitation, winter, killer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psycho killer, gory, maniac, friday the 13th, masked man, serial murder, stalking, blood, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, twist ending, teen, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, campus, strangulation, serial murder, murder, killer, female protagonist, blood, dark and stormy night, bad girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 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, cult classic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, holiday horror, plot twist, vengeance, gory, revenge, blood, birthday party, mystery killer, holiday, teenager ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
usa, new england, virginia, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, college student, murder, danger, serial murder, campus, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, psycho, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, danger, violence spree, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, haunted by the past, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Similarity:
39%
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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, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, exploitation, danger, stalking, sexual repression, blood, male nudity, trauma, dismemberment ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1982
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
39%
13K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Style:
slasher, retro, slasher horror, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supermarket, gory, insanity, murder, rivalry, stalking, danger, law enforcement, woman in danger, who done it, blood ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.
Style:
slasher, cult classic, bloody, surprise ending, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, bare chested male, serial killer, campus, college, masked killer, exploitation, radio, teenager, sorority, hysteria, carnage ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, enigmatic, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, college, murder, university, teacher, campus, youth, friendship, killer, teenager, violence, mental patient ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
xian
Similarity:
39%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, revenge, murder, woman in danger, mystery killer, gory, masked killer, violence against women, danger, death of friend, school ...
Time:
year 2001, 80s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
38%
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, bloody, christmas horror, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, train, masked killer, holiday horror, killer, prank, serial killer, murder, new year's eve, stalking, magician, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 2016, 70s ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, grindhouse, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
masked killer, masked man, homicidal maniac, serial killer, held captive, maniac, exploitation, murder, gory, killer, murderer, fashion model ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, wedding, danger, chase, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation, killing spree ...
Time:
70s, year 1980
Place:
new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, dangerous attraction, psychopath, mental patient, killer, rape, mental institution, danger, woman in danger, youth, exploitation, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, gory, masked killer, death, group of friends, brutality, massacre, danger, revenge, maniac, camp, videotaped sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place:
texas, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
36%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
killer, masked killer, gory, friday the 13th, masked man, serial teen killer, murder, serial killer, male victim, outdoor sex, murder of a nude woman, summer camp ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, america
Similarity:
35%
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, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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