Movies like Psycho IV: The Beginning
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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
11K
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 expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhile, Fran Ambrose is a radio talk show host who is discussing the topic of matricide with guest Dr. Richmond, Norman's former psychologist. The radio station receives a call from Norman, who uses the alias "Ed" to tell his story.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, cult horror, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, schizophrenia, poisoning, matricide, double murder, incestuous desire, child abuse, oedipus complex, serial killer, cross dressing, monster, serial killer as protagonist, voyeurism, murder, haunted house, maniac, boxing, pregnancy, homicidal maniac, seduction, jealousy ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 40s ...
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Psycho IV: The Beginning
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, slasher and scary films with plots about murder, psychopath, serial killer, deadly, danger, blood and murderer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho IV: The Beginning: Psycho (1998), Psycho II (1983), Psycho III (1986), Lovers Lane (2000), Killers (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
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%
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%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man who killed 13 years before goes out on the loose to kill his victims' children.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, teen horror, dark, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, holiday horror, small town, psychopath, holiday, unfaithful wife, dead teenager, sex, teenage sex, masked killer, woman with a gun ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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: 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:
25%
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Similarity:
25%
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:
24%
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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:
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
urban legend, supernatural, revenge, husband murders wife, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, gory, small town ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
24%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murderer, psycho killer, psychopath, stalking, woman in danger, missing person, eye, murder investigation, neighbor, getting home, suspicion of murder, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oceania, usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
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:
23%
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, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
evil doll, doll, supernatural, puppet, scary doll, murder, terror, possession, danger, family relations, parents and children, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, 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 ...
Style:
slasher, frightening, scary, bloody, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, murder of family, male nudity, fake identity, stepfather, new identity, murderer, killer, mental illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
turkey, seattle, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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23K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is ...
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, detective, grindhouse, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, twins, amateur detective, reporter, mental illness, bakery, twin sister, witness, neighbor, hallucination, murder mystery, freakshow ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, canada, quebec, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital ...
Style:
scary, erotic, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
stripper, serial killer, profanity, psychopath, twins, sadism, kidnapping, mistaken identity, amputation, supernatural, small town, twists and turns ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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 ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, night school, female nudity, suspicion, pregnancy, riddles and clues, campus, danger, woman in danger, love affair, machete ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
boston, texas
Similarity:
22%
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
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, spooky, crime thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
christmas, murder, xmas, holiday horror, masked killer, rainstorm, estranged father, hagsploitation, hysteria, darkness, new year's eve, woods ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, horror musical, metafiction ...
Plot:
voyeurism, nudity, female killer, voyeur, female nudity, serial killer, stalker, psychopath, transvestism, obsession, gory, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tuscany
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, sexual ...
Plot:
female nudity, tarantula, serial killer, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, woman in jeopardy, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, whodunit, psychopath, obsession, maniac ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
10K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
Style:
slasher, psychological, surprise ending, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, prank, masked killer, psychopath, danger, internet, college student, student, library, paranoia ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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