Movies like Wacko
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Wacko (1982)
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Cops try to track down the infamous "Lawnmower Killer"
Style:
horror comedy, slasher, detective, slasher horror, funny, surreal, spoof, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, holiday horror, pumpkin, halloween, slasher spoof, murder, high school, small town, killer, homicidal maniac, doctor, teenage girl, surgeon, virgin, virginity, dysfunctional family, psycho killer, teenage boy, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, football team, unknown killer, death of sister, sister sister relationship, death of daughter ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Wacko
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, horror comedy, slasher horror and bloody films with plots about serial killer, murder, killer, murderer, blood, deadly and psychopath mostly in Horror, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Wacko: Student Bodies (1981), Scream (1996), Pandemonium (1982), The People Under the Stairs (1991), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's ...
Style:
parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleading, high school, serial killer, murder, cheerleader, psychopath, gory, dark humor, sex doll, fetishist, american football, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Similarity:
100%
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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, suspense, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, maniac, small town, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tom Smothers stars as the brave mountie, who along with his trusty horse and bitter deputy Paul Reubens must track down a killer who is stalking coeds at a nearby cheerleader camp.
Style:
slasher, parody, scary, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, serial killer, murder, female protagonist, sexual attraction, friendship, partner, teenage life, teenager, gym, summer camp, doctor ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 60s, year 1963
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style:
horror comedy, cult classic, slasher, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, cannibalism, home invasion, murder, manic, guard dog, child in peril, kidnapped, disturbed individual, rottweiler, psychopath, murderous pair ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
Style:
dark comedy, slasher, black comedy, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chainsaw, cannibalism, gory, masked killer, dark humor, psycho killer, chainsaw murder, monster, violent, radio, murder, texas chainsaw massacre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, usa, austin texas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On St. Blevins Day (the most debauched of regional holidays), four boys looking to lose their virginity, a girl haunted by a dark secret, a lonely teenager, and an escaped mental patient all meet at a party in the woods. They were looking for fun ...
Style:
slasher, parody, suspense, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
psychopath, violence, fear, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, seduction, friendship, murder, characters killed one by one, terror, serial murder, chase, revenge ...
Similarity:
40%
232K
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, horror comedy, sexy, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, college, serial murder, strong female lead, villain, mystery killer, female protagonist, masked man, haunted by the past, killer, blood, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, ohio
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
urban legend, supernatural, revenge, husband murders wife, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, gory, small town ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for ...
Style:
slasher, scary, dark comedy, mockumentary, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, satire, dark humor, small town, masked man, dead teenager, maniac, halloween, journalism, found footage ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
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, bloody, scary, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
holiday horror, twists and turns, plot twist, serial killer, murder, prank, gory, supernatural, college, mad scientist, hanging, blood ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When ...
Style:
slasher, spoof, parody, horror comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
making love, high school, high school reunion, serial killer, revenge, sex scene, prank, teenager, chase, death, satire, maniac ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, vengeance, gory, survival, violent, slaughterhouse, mentally challenged, danger, dark humor, buddies, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, scary, dark, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, halloween, ghost, survival, gory, supernatural, maniac, killer, murderer, revenge, supernatural being, woman with a gun ...
Time:
90s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
38%
181K
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, parody, suspenseful, teen, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, killer, telephone call, nightmare, filmmaking, masked man, violence, serial murder, mind game, profanity ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Poor Gregory, after being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice cream factory, and all the unappreciative brats are reprocessed into the flavor of the day.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, detective, black comedy ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, villain, clown, nurse, flashback, cockroach, insanity, boy, violence ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since ...
Style:
spoof, slasher, cult classic, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, serial killer, police investigation, teenager, violence, masked killer, murder, filmmaking, gory, supernatural, sexual abuse, sexualized violence ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century
Similarity:
38%
187K
Genre: 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, suspense, creepy, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, telephone call, woman in danger, killer, gory, closeted homosexual, high school student, revenge ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
17K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, spoof, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, dark humor, time machine, time loop, youth, imaginary, social relations, survival, unrequited love, grizzly bear, american football, body swap ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1992, year 2003, year 2005, year 2008 ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Style:
slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Plot:
halloween, halloween party, serial killer, psychopath, holiday horror, boy, dark humor, danger, gory, killer, house, guts ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off ...
Style:
medical horror, slasher, black comedy, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
medical, sadistic psychopath, violence, brutality, serial killer, small town, mental institution, doctor, murder, mind game, blood, investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 1950s, year 1957, 80s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
37%
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, suspense, creepy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, youth, psychopath, secret, murder, teenager, urban legend, characters killed one by one, blood, masked killer, mystery killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, future, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
Style:
slasher, humorous, parody, spoof, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
satire, virginity, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, camp counselor, serial killer, characters murdered one by one, teenager, summer camp, camp, killer, scream queen ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1986, year 1987, 1950s ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub.
Style:
slasher, bloody, classic horror, cult classic, disturbing ...
Plot:
stripper, strip club, mysterious villain, torture, exploitation, serial killer, sadistic psychopath, bloody violence, evil man, female nudity, gory, murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying ...
Plot:
island, serial killer, nightmare, unknown killer, monster, fear, murder, beach, gory, exploitation, american horror, creature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, violence, blood, sadistic psychopath, psychopath, psycho killer, stranger, murder, masked killer, disturbed individual, unknown killer ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
holiday horror, serial killer, psychopath, christmas, murder, small town, killer santa claus, law enforcement, gory, xmas, killer, winter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Another spoof of the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer horror gene involving a group of popular high school students stalked by a bumbling masked killer while a dogged reporter named Hagitha Utslay covers the story and of the plight of the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, sexy, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual humor, dark humor, murder, serial killer, high school life, youth, teenage life, who done it, danger, disorder, law enforcement, high school ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psycho killer, gory, maniac, friday the 13th, masked man, serial murder, stalking, blood, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives ...
Style:
scary, spooky, slasher, psychological, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
halloween, werewolf, masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, supernatural horror, halloween party, monster, prank, corpse, holiday horror, scarecrow ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, slasher horror, psychological thriller, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, hotel, murder, underground, sex crime, exploitation, plan, murderer, sadism, sadistic killer, flashback, blood ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Similarity:
36%
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