Movies like Psycho III
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Psycho III (1986)
18K
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 comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, cult horror, psychological, scary, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, domineering mother, characters murdered one by one, haunted house, insanity, motel, old dark house, nun, corpse, serial killer as protagonist, depression, split personality, voyeurism, monster, woman urinating, woman peeing, maniac, violence, death, male nudity, catholic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Psycho III
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, scary, suspenseful and slasher horror films with plots about serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory, killer, maniac and murderer mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho III: Psycho II (1983), Bates Motel (2013), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), The Prowler (1981), Friday the 13th (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
125K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, motel, mental disorder, obsession, hotel, insanity, murder, family problems, half brother, dysfunctional family, small town, incestuous desire ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, usa, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
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: 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%
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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: 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%
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%
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%
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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: 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, sexy, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ritual, campus, sorority, murder, female protagonist, nightmare, prank, female nudity, secret, mental institution, danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
709
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.
Style:
erotic, detective, queer horror, independent film
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian erotica, making love, stalker, erotica, outdoor sex, serial killer, sex scene, female protagonist, adultery, desire, infidelity ...
Place:
los angeles
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: 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%
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%
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: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
slasher, creepy, suspense, visually stunning, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, nude girl, female nudity, torture, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, evil man, masked villain ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
italy, europe
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%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, blood, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, italy, rhode island, new york, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style:
slasher, scary, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
miner, serial killer, mine, valentine's day, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unknown killer, mining town, strong violent content, killer, mysterious villain, psycho killer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
christmas horror, tense, bloody, serious, cult horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, serial killer as protagonist, holiday, vengeance, desire, murder, sex, xmas, christmas, killer santa claus, mental illness, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off ...
Style:
medical horror, slasher, black comedy, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
medical, sadistic psychopath, violence, brutality, serial killer, small town, mental institution, doctor, murder, mind game, blood, investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 1950s, year 1957, 80s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?
Style:
slasher, independent film, slasher horror
Plot:
axe murderer, female nudity, murder, serial killer, stripper, masked killer, psycho killer, psychopath, serial murder, bare chested male, stalker, sexploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
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, scary, surprise ending, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, ghost, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, sibling relationship, haunted house, split personality, violence, schizophrenic ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 2017
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
Style:
christmas horror, psychological thriller
Plot:
serial killer, christmas, xmas, boy, parents, night, police officer, matricide, patricide, murder, male nudity, police ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
23%
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:
22%
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:
22%
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:
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
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
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, masked killer, violence, homicidal maniac, mental institution, amusement park, dead teenager, murderer, murder, youth, gory, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2003, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Similarity:
20%
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