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From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
 5.8
 3K
From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Style: anthology, disturbing, independent film, southern gothic, dark fairy tale, cult classic, pastoral, surprise ending, scary, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: swamp, american civil war, unrequited love, curse, civil war, killer child, evil child, voodoo, serial killer, necrophilia, murder, reporter, supernatural horror, macabre, librarian, freakshow, american horror, bad kids, supernatural, female nudity, immortality, cannibalism, jealousy, midget, lust ...
Time: year 1987, 19th century, year 1933, 1930s, 1950s, 50s
Place: tennessee, usa
Keyword: gangsters, rose, visit

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Most similar movies to From a Whisper to a Scream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and suspense films with plots about murder, blood, violence, death, telephone call, screaming woman and photograph mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like From a Whisper to a Scream: Tales from the Hood (1995), Night Train to Terror (1985), Marrowbone (2017), The Baby (1973), Night Warning (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tales from the Hood (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
Style: scary, disturbing, anthology, hood, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mortician, afterlife, child abuse, murder, funeral home, hip hop, supernatural, brutality, drug, storytelling, blaxploitation, evil doll ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night Train to Terror (1985)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a ...
Style: anthology, cult horror, classic horror, retro, dark fairy tale ...
Plot: train, devil, railway, rock and roll, exploitation, supernatural horror, doom, serial killer, stranger on a train, rock band, supernatural, monster ...
Time: year 1979, 80s, 70s, 1940s, year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.7
 39K
Marrowbone (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, sibling relationship, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, split personality, schizophrenic, loss of mother, attic ...
Time: 60s, year 2017, year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up and realises that she is not alive anymore. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, lesbian vampire, revenge, blood, supernatural, gory, lesbian, vampire bite, female warrior, murder, prostitute, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.0
 4K
The Shortcut (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, urban legend, woods, chase, danger, murder, friendship, missing person, trespassing, high school, child in peril, serial killer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1955, year 1953, year 1946, year 1945 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 139K
Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, mirror, supernatural horror, danger, siblings relations, paranormal activity, ghost, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, hallucination ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 6.4
 4K
Macabre (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: cannibal, psychopath, danger, isolation, cannibalism, murder, violence, struggle for survival, deathtrap, rivalry, serial killer, survival ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young girl who possesses the power of telekinesis accidentally causes her father's death after a family dispute at Crystal Lake. Years later, when a doctor tries to exploit her abilities, her power becomes a hellish curse, and she unwittingly ...
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, classic horror, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, telekinesis, gory, murder, supernatural, friday the 13th, camp, nudity, summer camp, psychic power, psionic power, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 785
Horror Stories (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The opening film of the 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PiFan) is HORROR STORY, the horror omnibus film of four episodes by five filmmakers including Jeong Bum Shik(EPITAPH), Kim Gok and Kim Sun(WHITE), Hong Ji Young(THE NAKED ...
Style: anthology, psychotronic, rough, scary, slasher ...
Plot: zombie attack, kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, murder, abduction, home alone, psychopath, criminal, survival, sadism, teenage girl, damsel in distress ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 57K
The Lodge (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stepmother, winter, suicide, cult leader, snow, murder, mass suicide, nudity, religious cult, vacation gone wrong, female nudity, destiny ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 18K
Shocker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style: slasher, sadistic, splatter, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, police investigation, gory, malice, monster, obsession, evil, reincarnation, blood, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, year 1989
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Mother of Tears (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, stylized, suspense ...
Plot: black magic, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, occult, dark secret, good versus evil, torture, witchcraft, chaos, vengeance, witch, danger ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.0
 38K
Greta (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, trapped, stalker, stalking, female villain, obsessive love, murder, obsession, psychopath, held captive, roommate, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Place: new york, usa, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.9
 1K
Screamtime (1983)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.
Style: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, puppeteer, paranormal, psychopath, ghost, haunted house, violent content, couple relations, youth, supernatural, danger, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Initiation (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, ritual, murder, sorority, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, danger, campus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 112
Five (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A creative horror movie made up of five unique short films tied together by a similar theme.
Style: psychotronic, captivating, scary, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend conflict, supernatural horror, multiple deaths, wish come true, ghost, damsel in distress, teenage boy, blind character, time loop, secret, love triangle, mysterious event ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while ...
Style: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, demonic possession, nightmare, group of friends, bare chested male, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, demon, murder, violence, sole survivor, running for your life ...
Time: year 2017, year 1969, 60s
Place: ohio, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 12K
Martin (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style: surreal, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, serial killer, violence, murder, curse, hidden identity, shyness, teenage life, female pubic hair, zombie, macabre ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 50K
Unsane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 68K
V/H/S (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Style: anthology, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, supernatural, ghost, demon, nudity, macabre, ghost child, danger, halloween, videotaping, gory, haunted house ...
Time: year 2012, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style: dark, neo noir, scary, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, magic, investigation, occult, private detective, fanatic, violence, good versus evil, desert, murder, telekinesis, demon ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, mojave desert, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Killing Kind (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror ...
Plot: serial killer, gang rape, murder, exploitation, oedipus complex, mental disorder, sexual abuse, psychopath, mentally unstable, nudity, female nudity, strangulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.2
 5K
Nomads (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense ...
Plot: anthropologist, ghost, doctor, scientist, obsession, murder, danger, mentally unstable woman, ancient mystery, anthropology, hospital, vampire ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her ...
Style: anthology, gothic, cult classic, creepy, slasher ...
Plot: edgar allan poe, serial killer, macabre, greed, ghost, murder, blood, psycho killer, zombie, supernatural, gory, spirit ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1989
Place: new york, pittsburgh, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Black Serenade (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after ...
Style: slasher, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, unfaithful wife, religion, terror, mutilation, urban legend, college, university, voyeur, blood, fight, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.2
 16K
Polaroid (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her ...
Style: dark, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot: curse, teenager, ghost, death, death of friend, supernatural, mind game, photograph, photography, blood, photographer, cursed object ...
Time: 70s, year 1974
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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