Movies like Stay Alive

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Stay Alive (2006)
 5.0
 33K
Stay Alive (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, dark, serious, psychological, humorous, bad ending, bloody, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ghost, group of friends, characters killed one by one, technology gone awry, supernatural, suspense, murder, virtual reality, teenage life, survival, violence, technology, baroness, twists and turns, hacker, demon, internet, survival horror, friendship, serial killer, video game, fire, chase, high school, zombie ...
Time: contemporary
Place: new orleans

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Most similar movies to Stay Alive

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and splatter films with plots about catastrophe, brutality, supernatural, dialogue, suspense, death and mentor mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Stay Alive: The Ruins (2008), Ouija (2014), The Boy (2016), The Uninvited (2009), Dead Silence (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 5.9
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The Ruins (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, jungle, ruins, friendship, self sacrifice, chase, death, ancient mystery, murder, tourist, vacation, mercy killing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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100%
 4.5
 54K
Ouija (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
Style: scary, splatter, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, ouija board, curses spells and rituals, spiritualism, board game, haunted house, macabre, monster, brutality, attic ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 96K
The Boy (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style: scary, psychological, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doll, supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, suspense, plot twist, nanny, violence, murder, mansion, governess, brutality ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
Place: england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 82K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style: scary, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, suspense, parents and children, mental illness, family problems, woman in danger, uncover truth, family in danger, teenager, twists and turns, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 1986, 21st century
Place: maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
 97K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, macabre, supernatural, murder, ventriloquist, small town, investigation, twists and turns, clown, uncover truth, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 12K
Brainscan (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, virtual reality, computer, macabre, teenager, video game, transformation, mentor, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
One Missed Call (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, suspense, supernatural, death, destiny, hospital, asthma, investigation, uncover truth, cowardice, friendship, delusion ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 147K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, murder, macabre, suspense, suicide, paranormal activity, vengeance, death, demon ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 4.9
 32K
Darkness Falls (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, slasher, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, suspense, ghost, child in peril, witch, lighthouse, demon, small town, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, legends and myths, darkness ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.2
 21K
The Gallows (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
Style: slasher, scary, dark, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, found footage, supernatural, dead teenager, suspense, murder, ghost, youth, cheerleading, teenager, violence, revenge ...
Time: year 1993, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.8
 44K
The Forest (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style: scary, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, suspense, twists and turns, forest, haunted house, missing person, destiny, sisters, hallucination, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.6
 68K
Urban Legend (1998)
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 ⇓
37%
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style: scary, suspenseful, frightening, slasher, rough ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, evil spirit, survival, mental institution, murder, haunted by the past, isolation, serial murder, confined, rescue ...
Time: 90s, 1930s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, laboratory, experiment, suspense, macabre, death, demon, science, disorder, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, inheritance, machine, halloween, confined, isolation, apocalypse, family in danger, macabre, collector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
Style: bleak, scary, slasher, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, suspense, supernatural ability, witch, surveillance, psychology, curses spells and rituals, mysterious death, paranoia, magic, twists and turns, ghost ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: maryland, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 89K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, evil child, supernatural horror, social worker, mysterious character, demon, child abuse, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, mental institution, evil force ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, tense, sinister ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suspense, supernatural, teenager, death, life & death, survival, destiny, characters killed one by one, air disaster, disaster, freak accident, race against time ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
 4.7
 30K
Pulse (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, hacker, suspense, suicide, college, paranoia, technology, apocalypse, internet, computers and web, college life, graphic violence ...
Time: 2000s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 28K
Cry Wolf (2005)
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 ⇓
35%
 5.6
 78K
Unfriended (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: bullying, ghost, suicide, teenager, internet, suspense, found footage, death, youth, high school life, dead teenager, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
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 ⇓
35%
Soul Survivors (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style: psychological, scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, psychology, multiple storylines, college, student life, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 135K
The Strangers (2008)
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: scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 109K
Mirrors (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, bad ending ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, evil, twists and turns, mirror, supernatural horror, investigation, demon, death, disappearance, uncover truth, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.6
 19K
The Grudge 3 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, curse, suspense, murder, macabre, runaway, investigation, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, chicago illinois, tokyo, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.8
 260K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, fear, murder, supernatural horror, investigation, evil force, writer's life, paranormal activity, children ...
Time: year 2012, year 2011, year 1966, year 1979, year 1998 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
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 ⇓
35%
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in Berlin during WWII, the Nazi regime is attempting to develop a drug that will animate the dead, in order to use in the war effort. Toulin arouses suspicion as a Nazi dissident, and his secret is discovered. During a Nazi raid on his home, ...
Style: slasher, dark, stylized, melancholic, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: puppet, monster, zombie, world war two, doll, nazi occultism, supernatural, killer doll, violence, nude, evil doll, lone hero ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
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 ⇓
35%