Movies like Unspeakable 2002

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Unspeakable (2002)
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Unspeakable (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A flawed attempt to map the mind of a brutal serial killer leads to a horrifying battle for survival in director Thomas Wright's visceral thriller. Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely (Dennis Hopper), prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat (Pavan Grover) in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
Style: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tech noir, scary, crying
Plot: serial killer, prison, mind game, danger, race against time, prison life, confined, mind control, false accusation, murder, death sentence, flashback sequence, telepathy, electric chair, border guard, paranormal, autopsy, solitary, pedophilia, parent child relationship, prison guard, psychopath, gory, escapades, doctors and patients ...
Time: contemporary
Place: texas, mexico

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Most similar movies to Unspeakable

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and rough films with plots about serial killer, deadly, danger, murder, psychopath, rivalry and gory mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Unspeakable: Nefarious (2023), Dark Asylum (2001), Sacrifice (2000), Death Row (2007), Borderline Cult (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.4
 25K
Nefarious (2023)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
Style: suspenseful, mystical, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot: psychiatrist, demon, electrocution, criminal, atheist, death row, electric chair, possession, suicide, prison, multiple personality disorder, demonic possession ...
Place: oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 943
Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 845
Sacrifice (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, manhunt, psychopath, murder, mind game, investigation, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, gory, murder of a policewoman, female serial killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 604
Death Row (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: prison, psychopath, prison life, survival, serial killer, confined, danger, life is a bitch, murder, execution, death row, all male cast ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Borderline Cult (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Three serial killers team up at the US/Mexican border town of Juarez and go on a killing spree.
Style: serious, scary, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, gory, danger, law enforcement, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, tough heroes, brutality, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 2.5
 722
San Franpsycho (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, who done it, danger, psychopath, journalism, stalking, maniac, murderer, killer, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.3
 1K
Shiver (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, obsession, murder, adaptation, police, nudity, sex scene, investigation, female nudity, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.0
 1K
Heartstopper (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, hospital, murder, psychopath, electric chair, vengeance, danger, youth, supernatural, social misfits, mind game, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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 ⇓
56%
 4.3
 621
XII (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, murder, danger, masked killer, violence, xmas, escaped prisoner, pursuit, comeback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.4
 8K
The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 1.5
 1K
The Tomb (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, rivalry, supernatural, confined, escapades, survival, ancient mystery, woman in danger, gory, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.1
 2K
Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.9
 2K
Neighbor (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female killer, gory, psychopath, female psychopath, confined, captivity, strong violent content, society, suburbs, amputation, torture, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Seconds Apart (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of control as their classmates die in twisted and bizarre ways. Jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading up to a ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police investigation, twin brother, telekinesis, murder, supernatural, police detective, russian roulette, brother brother relationship, supernatural ability, sibling relationship, serial murder, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 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 ⇓
55%
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Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, youth, danger, woods, survival, strong violent content, rivalry, vengeance, friendship, mind game, teenager, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, mind game, on the road, woman in danger, survival, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, police investigation, murder ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Style: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, desert, burned alive, murder, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, survival, ghost, supernatural ability, fugitives ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.1
 424
Hellblock 13 (1999)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.
Style: anthology, slasher, queer horror, dark fairy tale, independent film ...
Plot: prison, serial killer, biker, woman with a gun, ghost, women's prison, zombie, vengeance, supernatural, supernatural ability, gang, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.6
 3K
Dead Tone (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, gory, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, gay friend, confined ...
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, halloween, supernatural, masked villain, monster, holiday horror, murder, massacre, hospital, gory, obsession, kitten ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.8
 119K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
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: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.4
 1K
The Mooring (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly ...
Style: scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, river, psychopath, serial killer, chase, woods, survival, missing person, woman in danger, isolation, on the run, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.3
 750
Circle (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When remorseless killer James Bennett escapes from lockdown in a mental hospital, an FBI agent and a U.S. Marshal track the madman to his hometown, where he plans to slay a group of graduate students studying his case. But to catch their prey, the ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, murder, danger, riddles and clues, rivalry, youth, student life, female sexuality, evil wins, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.0
 2K
Perkins' 14 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ronald Perkins builds an army of 14 people brainwashed through cult-like methods to protect him from his parents' killers. When Perkins is imprisoned, the police unwittingly unleash his followers on a small town and they've only got one ...
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, psychopath, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, danger, gory, evil wins, vengeance, zombie, murder, revenge, deputy sheriff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.1
 2K
Sutures (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon. He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also been hunted. Prey turned predator. The victims quickly ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: survival, serial killer, police detective, black market, murder, captivity, gory, escapades, chases and races, danger, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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