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Pin (1988)
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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 doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, surprise ending
Plot:
mind game, mental illness, murder, dysfunctional family, birthday, police, blood, doctor, obsession, possessiveness, delusion, car accident, siblings relations, psychopath, crimes, deadly, rivalry, family relations, talking in a car, window, climbing steps, blowing out candles on a birthday cake, parking a car, counting, speeding car ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about deadly, crimes, murder, psychopath, danger, serial killer and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Pin: The Stepfather (1987), Stepfather II (1989), Disturbed (1990), The Dark Hours (2005), Gothika (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
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Time:
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Place:
turkey, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future wife and new stepson who love him, Blake eliminates anyone who stands in his way to building the ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Dr. Samantha Goodman is a beautiful, young psychiatrist. Burnt out, she drives to the family’s winter cottage to spend time with her husband and sister. A relaxing weekend is jarringly interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives. ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, winter, game, cabin, mental patient, snow, psychiatrist, blood, surrealism, basement, hostage, mental institution ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, supernatural, mental illness, protagonist as suspect, mind game, psychiatrist, serial killer, supernatural ability, crazy, mystery, crime ...
Time:
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Place:
new hampshire, connecticut
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After being traumatized by his brother Billy's murderous rampage years earlier, Ricky Caldwell has become a serial killer himself and is now living in a mental hospital. Relating his story to a psychiatrist, Ricky recounts the details of their ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, 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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia, UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a ...
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses, ears, and hair and puts them on ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
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Place:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he ...
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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