Movies like Skeleton Crew

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Skeleton Crew (2009)
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Skeleton Crew (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor, Dr. Anderson assumed the persona of "the Auteur," and began murdering his patients while filming the atrocities. Thirty years later, an American film crew has arrived at the hospital to shoot a horror film based on those awful events. The director, Steven, is determined to make the film as realistic as possible, a goal that doesn't seem too far-fetched when his Finnish sound men discover a hidden room in the hospital basement. There, perfectly preserved, are the original snuff films shot by "the Auteur". As Steven's obsession grows, his cast and crew begin to fear for his sanity. But this is only the beginning, because when Steven discovers actual camera used by "the Auteur", he assumes the role of the murderous doctor and the real slaughter begins.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, meta, retro, splatter, low-budget
Audience: teens
Plot: filmmaking, mental institution, psychopath, obsession, confined, heroes, gory, losing-it hero, serial killer, hidden room, sadistic psychopath, profanity, isolation, strong violent content, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, ghost, fight, female nudity, murder, hospital, lesbianism, director, car accident, blood ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: finland, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, slasher and suspenseful films with plots about deadly, serial killer, danger, psychopath, gory, murder and survival mostly in Horror, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Skeleton Crew: Snuff-Movie (2005), Escapee (2011), Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008), Psycho Ward (2007), Effects (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Snuff-Movie (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors ...
Style: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: filmmaking, bondage, psychopath, obsession, danger, gory, haunted by the past, murder, sex, estate, violent, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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 3.1
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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 ⇓
30%
Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, escapades, amateur detective, psychopath, danger, woman in danger, riddles and clues, snow, puzzle, murder, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 2.4
 374
Psycho Ward (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of urban researchers set about exploring an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a terrible history, but are they prepared for the horrifying, possibly supernatural secrets hidden within its crumbling walls? No sooner do they get there than ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, mental institution, survival, confined, danger, isolation, characters killed one by one, escaped mental patient, abandoned hospital, masked killer, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Effects (1979)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, voyeurism, terror, director, murder, inspiration, drug use, cocaine, bar fight, psychopath, supernatural ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Wreckage (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, buddies, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, danger, car race, friends, ex soldier, irony, hillbilly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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
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26%
The Hitchhiker (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: psychopath, gory, on the road, mind game, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, desert, murder, driver, taxi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Deadly Weekend (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, woods, survival, isolation, confined, strong violent content, murder, danger, group of friends, trap, bondage, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Devil's Ground (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with ...
Style: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, masked killer, violence spree, psychopath, danger, murder, gory, redneck, ghost, serial killer, backwoods, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Death Do Us Part (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, isolation, murder, friendship, couples, confined, buddies, gory, wedding, maniac, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Dark Ride (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, mental institution, homicidal maniac, amusement park, murder, masked killer, serial killer, youth, gory, blood, violence, on the road ...
Time: year 2003, year 1989, year 1990
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 318
Nightstalker (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties
Style: serious, scary, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, blasphemy, gang violence, devil worship, satanist, violence, true crime, killer, stalking, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Below Zero (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, writer's life, losing-it hero, isolation, twists and turns, one last chance, danger, figment, gory, writers, trapped, cold ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Insanitarium (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths
Style: disturbing, rough, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, mental institution, survival, psychopath, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, doctors and patients, confined, rescue, power relations, isolation, gory ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Last Showing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, obsession, vengeance, murder, maniac, insanity, violence, serial murder, serial killer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Nine Lives (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, ghost, danger, confined, supernatural, gory, murder, survival, isolation, haunted house, campus, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 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 ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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Bunnyman (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bunnyman is the story of a group of friends on their way back from a spontaneous weekend trip to Las Vegas, and while driving through the remote regions of southern California they suddenly find themselves in a sickening game of cat and mouse with a ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: gory, psychopath, survival, on the road, danger, escapades, isolation, confined, captivity, profanity, rabbit, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
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Blood Trails (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The biker Anne has a violent one night stand with the supposed cop Chris after a minor infraction. Two days later, feeling guilty and traumatized, she decides to go hiking with her boyfriend Michael in the Whistler chain of mountains, a spot where ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: wilderness, dangerous attraction, mind game, isolation, teenage life, stalking, survival, danger, gory, murder, psychopath, obsession ...
Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, gas station, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, strong violent content, escapades, on the road, religious fanatic, gory, twins ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.4
 396
The Choke (2006)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rock, survival, teenage life, gory, rave, danger, stalking, murder, rock and roll, serial killer, hard rock, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 283
Blood Relic (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost, museum, obsession, supernatural, danger, race against time, survival, idealism, mentally unstable, mental institution, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.8
 1K
The Maze (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, chase, survival, danger, strong violent content, stalking, gory, serial killer, villain, torture, chases and races, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 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 ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
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