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Psycho II (1983)
35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" demands and begins to question his own sanity.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror, bloody, splatter, frightening, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, female nudity, marijuana, homicidal maniac, swamp, police station, waitress, employer employee relationship, voyeurism, male victim, killer, haunted house, great ending, mother daughter relationship, voyeur, motel, nudity, gory ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
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Most similar movies to Psycho II
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about serial killer, murder, killer, deadly, psychopath, maniac and blood mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho II: Psycho III (1986), Psycho (1998), The Watcher (2000), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style:
disturbing, scary, creepy, cult classic, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, maniac, gory, killing spree, sexualized violence, rape, violent, insanity, incest, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, midwest, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
motel, psychopath, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, murder of a nude woman, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, serial killer, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, fbi, murder, killer, psychopath, obsession, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, terror ...
Time:
y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, double murder, poisoning, incestuous desire, schizophrenia, matricide, child abuse, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
336K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style:
slasher, creepy, scary, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer, masked killer, stalking, mystery killer, unknown killer, psychopath, maniac, murder, masked man, voice over narration, butcher ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1976, year 1946
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, mind game, island, trap, violence, investigation, killing spree, profiler, psycho killer, fbi, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, violent, murder, murder of a nude woman, masked man, masked killer, police officer, male victim, blood, sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003
Place:
new jersey, ohio
Similarity:
100%
90K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Style:
neo noir, creepy, psychological thriller, tense, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, killer, psycho killer, violence, cannibalism, profiler, eye, fbi agent, obsession, mind game, macabre ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
florida, southern california, alabama, maryland, miami ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, serial killer as protagonist, exploitation, killer, killing spree, brutality, violence, freak, misfit, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, horrifying, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, neighbor, violence, old dark house, danger, gory, hollywood, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in ...
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, scary, teen horror, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, manly
Plot:
serial killer, gory, serial teen killer, killer, serial murder, friday the 13th, masked man, morgue, death, murder, male victim, characters murdered one by one ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style:
slasher, scary, cult classic, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, summer camp, masked man, killing spree, camp, gory, friday the 13th, murder, psycho killer, sex, serial teen killer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, masked man, holiday horror, killer, supernatural, masked villain, massacre, monster, murder, pitchfork, kitten ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal ...
Style:
slasher, classic horror, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friday the 13th, woods, monster, summer camp, gory, masked man, maniac, camping, masked killer, supernatural, camp, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, summer camp, killing spree, camp counselor, stalking, murder, danger, teenage life, male victim, male nudity, forest, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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