Movies like Scanner Cop
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Scanner Cop (1994)
2K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychic power, supernatural, investigation, gory, vengeance, adoption, supernatural ability, rivalry, danger, police station, fighting crime, cop, body horror, mind power, drug abuse, superhero, monster, serial killer, occult, brain, psychokinesis, telekinesis, supernatural horror, addiction, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Most similar movies to Scanner Cop
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, rough and scary films with plots about danger, gory, deadly, supernatural, monster, rivalry and gore mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Scanner Cop: Full Eclipse (1993), Hybrid (1997), They Crawl (2001), Night of the Scarecrow (1995), The Cell 2 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
Style:
independent film, serious, slasher, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
psychic, psychic power, body horror, supernatural, serial killer, cop, occult, superhero, police officer, supernatural horror, profanity, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a ...
Style:
slasher, rough, detective, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
werewolf, wolf, supernatural being, die hard, law enforcement, vigilantism, gory, lycanthropy, female nudity, kaiju, worship, chaos ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
731
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of space renegades hook up with a drifter named McQueen. Together they hole up in an abandoned research facility for the night and are relentlessly pursued by a human/monster hybrid.
Style:
bleak, scary, serious, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, evil alien, danger, desert, stalking, lesbianism, isolation, confined, experiment, laboratory, monster, creature feature ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, danger, plague, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, murder, monster, creature feature, insect, creature ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
scarecrow, deal with the devil, curses spells and rituals, young lovers, evil doll, supernatural, killer scarecrow, warlock, rivalry, mentally unstable, danger, murder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, amnesia, dying repeatedly, psychopath, police detective, danger, law enforcement, supernatural ability, mind game, chase, supernatural, psychic ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
992
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, survival, tunnel, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, special agent, danger, supernatural, creature feature, scientist, diner, exploitation ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions
Style:
slasher, independent film, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
demon, torture, space station, macabre, space, gory, supernatural, hellraiser, curse, human sacrifice, cursed object, monster ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 90s, 20th century, 1790s ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, france, europe, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.
Style:
slasher, classic horror, detective, grindhouse, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cop, serial killer, die hard, supernatural being, monster, living dead, exploitation, dead, maniac, underground, bad cop, killer cop ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation. With the door sealed from within, there is no way out.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
supernatural, mutant, deadly creature, gory, danger, superhuman powers, confined, experiment gone awry, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, monster, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
7K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Style:
scary, tense, semi serious, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bloodsucker, giant insect, monster, mutant, drug abuse, creature feature, dangerous animal, creature, wilderness, buddies, youth, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...
Style:
cult horror, slasher, suspense, independent film, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, crime fighter, drug lord, scientist, experiment, villain, supernatural being, heroes, bait, gory, heroic mission, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
723
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychic's investigation into the disappearance of a Senator's daughter leads her to a dangerous cult and the truth about her mysterious past.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
psychic power, psychic, mind reading, mind control, missing person, secret experiment, amnesia, fbi, fbi agent, politician, cult leader, investigation ...
Similarity:
100%
626
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Held captive in an underground prison by a sadistic sicko who fancies himself a surgeon, 4 women fight for their lives, knowing the exact time they're scheduled to die thanks to a crudely carved set of numbers on each of their bodies. None of ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot:
experiment, danger, isolation, confined, survival, violence, murder, trapped, serial killer, torture, kidnapping, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
38K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, mental illness, killer child, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, child abuse, psychiatrist, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
253
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, master criminal, law enforcement, police investigation, private detective ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style:
medical horror, suspense, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, investigation, danger, mind game, murder, experiment gone awry, monster, body horror ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
cuba, florida
Similarity:
100%
67K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, space and aliens, evil alien, investigation, terminator, danger, law enforcement, alien encounter, murder, alien, brutality, alien invasion ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mosquito, insect, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, transformation, virus, escaped prisoner, creature feature, genetic engineering ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style:
scary, cult classic, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, tall man, twists and turns, cemetery, funeral, small town, supernatural, mausoleum, hearse, murder, adaptation, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, 80s
Place:
usa, southern california, california, oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
space and aliens, terrorism, gory, supernatural, good versus evil, custody, heroic mission, danger, superhuman powers, imaginary, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
Style:
serious, stylized, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, save the world, heroic mission, leadership, danger, rescue, rivalry, deadly creature, race against time, chase, gory ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, monster, creature feature, psychopath, mind game, danger, serial killer, plague, drug dealing ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspense, christmas horror, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychic, telekinesis, body horror, psychic power, superhero, video arcade, monster, pluto, addiction, dishonesty, escapades, master villain ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
100%
26K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Style:
sexual, disturbing, grindhouse, suspense, erotic ...
Plot:
exploitation, parasite, sex maniac, rape, sex, insanity, body horror, gory, zombie, evil wins, lust, puffy nipples ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, natural horror
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, parasite, survival, disorder, chaos, danger, plague, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, small town, monster, creature ...
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her father. Her brother, who is also a scanner, is the only one powerful enough to stop her.
Style:
suspense, cult classic, independent film, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
psychic, body horror, psychic power, superhero, bare breasts, father, computer, gory, megalomaniac, pregnancy, experiment gone awry, addiction ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
thailand, montreal
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of ...
Style:
cult classic, splatter, scary, psychotronic, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, dying repeatedly, space and aliens, monster, serial killer, tall man, gory, alien invasion, cemetery, supernatural horror, undead, zombie ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, time travel, desert, good versus evil, living dead, heroic mission, riddles and clues, gory, siblings relations, chases and races, master villain, obsessive quest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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