Movies like Scream 1996
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Scream (1996)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, bloody, parody, twist ending, tense, splatter, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenager, small town, psychopath, murder, masked killer, twists and turns, suspense, woman in danger, teenage life, violent, maniac, female protagonist, halloween, who done it, chase, heroine, obsession, violence, whodunit, mystery killer, satire, killing spree, home invasion ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
california, usa
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Most similar movies to Scream
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and bloody films with plots about murder, death, serial killer, violence, killer, blood and suspense mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Scream: Halloween (1978), Urban Legend (1998), Valentine (2001), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Friday the 13th (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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156K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, splatter, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, serial murder, high school, mystery killer, woman in danger, psychopath, suspense, murder, twists and turns, revenge, small town ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
191K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, college, serial murder, suspense, villain, strong female lead, murder, twists and turns, psychopath, killer, masked killer, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, ohio
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100%
149K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, splatter, intense ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, murder, suspense, psychopath, twists and turns, hollywood, vengeance, serial murder, brutality, violence ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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100%
125K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, whodunit, sister sister relationship, psychopath, homicidal maniac, killing spree, sadistic psychopath, threatening telephone call, murder mystery, characters killed one by one, gory violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, teenager, youth, murder, small town, urban legend, characters killed one by one, high school, hidden truth, psychopath, fisherman ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Scream
286K
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, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, psychiatrist, violence, violent, high school, evil ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1963, 20th century ...
Place:
california, illinois, midwest
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to the island ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bad ending, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, survival, twists and turns, voodoo, haunted by the past, island, stranded, resort, teenager, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1988, 80s
Place:
bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style:
slasher, twist ending, bloody, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, college, urban legend, suspense, serial murder, twists and turns, murder, death, teenager, strangulation, gas station, goth ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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29K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, psychopath, woman in danger, murder, revenge, suspense, mystery killer, school, death of friend, violence against women, bullying ...
Time:
80s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, monster, school, high school, masked killer, serial teen killer, killer, death, writers, suspense, murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Movies similar to Saw
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, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, high school, murder, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, teenager, small town, virgin, psychopath, sheriff, gang rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, suspense, murder, twists and turns, prank, school, death, high school, youth, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
virginia
⇓ 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, scary, splatter, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, morgue, serial teen killer, forest, camp, torture, death, massacre, teenager, summer camp, friday the thirteenth ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, intense, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, high school, stalking, suspense, prom, death, haunted by the past, teenager, stalker, killer, psychopath ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Movies similar to Orphan
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, valentine's day, miner, masked killer, killing spree, youth, murder, love triangle, sadistic psychopath, violence, brutality ...
Time:
80s, year 1960, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, gothic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, suspense, torture, small town, group of friends, violence, murder, masked killer, psycho killer, ghost town, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1974, 80s ...
Place:
usa, florida, paris france, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine ...
Style:
slasher, scary, surprise ending, bloody, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, murder, college, suspense, teenage life, halloween, college life, masked killer, multiple storylines, psychopath, movie business ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style:
slasher, brutal, suspenseful, splatter, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, teenage life, social relations ...
Time:
year 1976, year 1946, year 2013
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, nightmare, murder, serial killer, suspense, fear, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, macabre, monster ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada, ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Movies like House of Wax
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style:
slasher, scary, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, suspense, supernatural, lesbian, serial killer, lgbt, lgbtq, serial murder, characters killed one by one, brutality, maniac, death ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, ...
Style:
slasher, brutal, bloody, sexy, scary ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
college, college life, suspense, serial killer, best friends, mystery killer, sorority, secret, sociopath, macabre, teenager, prank ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, brutal, bloody, intense ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, miner, mine, strong violent content, suspense, valentine's day, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, masked killer, mining town, psychopath, small town, survival ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, youth, high school, massacre, characters killed one by one, teenage life, obsession, maniac, masked killer, twists and turns ...
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, atlanta
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, murder, sorority, serial murder, psychopath, holiday, winter, violence, suspense, prank telephone call, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
suspense, supernatural, witchcraft, macabre, ritual, female protagonist, satanic cult, lunar eclipse, devil, haunted house, ghost, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
california, new jersey
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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, intense, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, camp, forest, serial killer, masked killer, murder, lake, death, vengeance, torture, massacre, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, ...
Style:
slasher, twist ending, scary, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, cult, teenager, island, suspense, mad scientist, hanging, college ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, bloody, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, masked villain, male nudity, monster, stalking, tv news, sadistic psychopath, paramedic, injection ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
midwest, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, suspense, murder, monster, woman in danger, homicidal maniac, snake, lesbian, violence, psychopath, brutality ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1978, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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