Movies like Scissors

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Scissors (1991)
 5.1
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Scissors (1991)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited to a mysterious apartment things get worse and worse.
Style: neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending ...
Plot: strong sexual content, twins, psychoanalysis, woman in danger, mind game, losing-it hero, mysterious character, female protagonist, attempted rape, female psychopath, elevator, erotica, psychology, women, obsession, doll, darkness, isolation, crow, fatal attraction, evil twin, mental issues, female nudity, murder, architect ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s

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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 danger, deadly, murder, woman in danger, serial killer, psychopath and profanity mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Scissors: Teacher's Pet (2000), Doppelganger: The Evil Within (1993), Raising Cain (1992), Deadly Blessing (1981), Boogeyman 3 (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Teacher's Pet (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and dies out of fear of Debbie and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, female psychopath, unrequited love, teachers and students, hidden identity, stalking, student life, lesbian rape, escaped mental patient, age difference ...
Time: 90s
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100%
Doppelganger: The Evil Within (1993)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- ego. She moves into a room for rent by a writer, and he begins having an affair with her, but after some strange things ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, erotic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: female psychopath, murder, monster, doppelganger, nudity, obsession, supernatural, twins, erotica, ghost, cybernetics, serial killer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Raising Cain (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, detective, suspense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, adultery, twins, psychologist, insanity, kidnapping, multiple personality disorder, split personality, evil twin, hospital, obsession, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deadly Blessing (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: tractor, murder, psychopath, voyeur, occult, woman in danger, supernatural ability, danger, mind game, religion, supernatural horror, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Boogeyman 3 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the ...
Style: slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boogeyman, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, college, mind game, youth, race against time, mysterious character, supernatural ability, danger, gory ...
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
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Buried Alive (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious ...
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, insanity, mental illness, gory, danger, juvenile delinquency, school, teenage life, youth, serial killer, edgar allan poe, buried alive ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.3
 584
Visible Scars (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, confined, isolation, ghost, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 855
Rough Draft (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style: independent film, tense, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, killer, nypd, serial murder, sociopath, stalking, transvestism, murder, harassment, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 294
The Contract (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, danger, mysterious character, contract killing, brutality, violence, fight, contract killer, violent content, nudity, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 10K
Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 51K
Psycho (1998)
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: scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: psychopath, motel, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, mental illness, serial killer, secret ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 809
Lost Signal (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot: danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, survival, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, blood, new year ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 43K
Dead Calm (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: psychopath, ship, ocean, serial killer, isolation, maniac, yacht, woman in danger, obsession, survival, forced sex, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Madhouse (2004)
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: scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, intern, murder, investigation, supernatural, ghost child, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 36K
6 Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, psychiatrist, murder, supernatural horror, doctors and patients, split personality, female psychiatrist, twists and turns, mental illness, witch doctor, voodoo, demon ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 9K
Catacombs (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: twists and turns, confined, danger, woman in danger, gory, underground, isolation, murder, murder of sister, darkness, prank, catacomb ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, rape, violence, sexual abuse, serial killer, revenge, rapist, woman in danger, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
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100%
Pacific Heights (1990)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Style: neo noir, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, harassment, sociopath, yuppie, neighbor, home invasion, lawyer, deception, anger, tenant, landlord, identity theft ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breaking at the Edge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child's life if she doesn't avenge a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, serious, tense, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: pregnancy, couples, couple relations, mental illness, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, female protagonist, pregnant wife, ghost, babies and infants, brother murders brother, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Stalked (1994)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after having instinctively rescued her little son Mikey from a traffic accident. When she doesn't ...
Style: independent film, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: stalking, obsession, family relations, woman in jeopardy, jealousy, widow, murder, group therapy, rescue, psychotic, psychiatry, fear ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jacki, a scientist involved in genetic research, meets Tom, a young modern dancer who is suffering from a degenerative nerve disease. Jacki experiments with using genetic material taken from a cat to cure him, but the cure has side effects, and Tom ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous attraction, mutant, love triangle, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, sexual relations, woman in danger, doctors and patients, tragic romance, half human ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Knife Edge (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, uncover truth, stalking, danger, mind game, gory, estate, haunted house, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.1
 34K
Sliver (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: obsession, hidden camera, murder, voyeurism, dangerous attraction, serial killer, sex, voyeur, strong sexual content, apartment building, trapped, surveillance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.2
 904
Long Distance (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, murder, psychopath, danger, stalking, phone terror, violent content, sexual content, profanity, killer, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bikini Island (1991)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: "Swimwear Illustrated" is approaching its fifteenth anniversary issue. From a group of eager and beautiful young women, five are chosen for a photo shoot on an island off the California coast. One of the five will be the cover girl, and ...
Style: slasher, sexy, erotic, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, nudity, strong sexual content, erotica, fashion model, beach, murder, female nudity, media, woman in danger, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 6K
The Monitor (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: delusion, haunted by the past, social worker, family relations, danger, murder, mother son relationship, ghost, nordic, thoughtful, teenager, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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