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Smiley (2012)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
Style:
slasher, psychological, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, demonic, cyber, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, prank, masked killer, psychopath, danger, internet, student, library, college student, paranoia, falling from height, murder, stalker, mind game, cursed, campus, social network, teenager, hacker, teacher, computer, single father, telephone call ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Smiley
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and slasher films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, danger, psychopath, murderer and killer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Smiley: Cherry Falls (1999), Salvage (2006), The Hills Run Red (2009), Keep Watching (2017), Ten: Murder Island (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, independent film, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, murder, father daughter relationship, virgin, gang rape, high school, teenager, dead teenager, sheriff, small town, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it ...
Style:
scary, slasher, mind bending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
time loop, psychopath, serial killer, danger, destiny, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, dying repeatedly, murder, time travel, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Style:
slasher, bloody, splatter, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, gory, masked killer, self mutilation, murder, corpse, torture, blood, filmmaking, deliberate cruelty, wilderness ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, danger, family in danger, strangulation, psychopath, isolation, manipulation, family secret ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of kids travel to an abandoned island for a party only to discover that they are being stalked and hunted down by a dangerous predator.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mystery killer, diary, revenge, island, death, suicide, teenager, multiple murder, race against time, murder, mental illness, life & death ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style:
slasher, independent film, bloody, psychotronic, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, prank, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, killer clown, voyeur, accidental death, dead woman, old woman, hallucination ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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, strong violent content, danger, woods, survival, vengeance, rivalry, friendship, mind game, teenager, camp ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, college student, murder, danger, serial murder, campus, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, psycho, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who's hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter ...
Style:
serious, rough, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, teenager, characters killed one by one, murder, threat, computers and web, friendship, violence spree, masked man, dead teenager, serial killer, danger ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, haunted by the past, danger, gory, woman in danger, psychiatry, group of friends, education, violent content, witnessing a crime, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
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:
buddies, serial killer, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, danger, car race, friends, ex soldier, irony, hillbilly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Five frat boys are stalked by a machete wielding maniac, after they are involved in a horrifying Devil's Night accident.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
halloween, masked killer, psychopath, serial killer, killed during sex, maniac, danger, stalking, woods, murder, violence, group of friends ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.
Style:
slasher, psychological horror, clever, independent film, experimental ...
Plot:
voyeurism, serial killer, isolation, trapped, trap, darkness, body horror, nightmare, puzzle, haunted house, torture, psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A serial killer armed with a crossbow pistol is murdering people from their own rooftops. When three young coworkers at a poorly-attended slumber party start hearing footsteps on the roof, they fear the worst.
Style:
slasher, rough, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
psychopath, who done it, serial killer, mind game, police investigation, danger, supernatural, stalking, gory, master criminal, optimism, deadly creature ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, filmmaking, murder, supernatural power, survival, movie business, isolation, supernatural, deadly creature, vengeance, serial killer, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1988
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, boarding school, murder, couples, danger, psychopath, confined, isolation, strong violent content, masked killer, youth, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, masked killer, violence, homicidal maniac, mental institution, amusement park, dead teenager, murderer, murder, youth, gory, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2003, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, who done it, gory, danger, psychopath, stalking, journalism, murderer, killer, maniac, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, lake, murderer, murder, danger, vengeance, teenage life, survival, rivalry, mind game, masked killer ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts them all in one spot making for easy pickings for the slasher.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
nightmare, strong violent content, death, woods, confined, stalking, destiny, isolation, murder, scarecrow, mother, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, psychopath, law enforcement, violence spree, police investigation, stalking, mind game, danger, criminal, cannibal ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
Similarity:
100%
785
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The end of one journey only marks the beginning of another as Detective Loomis returns to uncover the truth behind the Legend of Pitchfork.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
strong violent content, murder, uncover truth, psychopath, law enforcement, violence spree, legend, chase, violence, death, danger, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
Similarity:
100%
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, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, torture, murder, group of friends, mind game, psycho killer, trap, trapped, female nudity, game of death, friendship, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, illusion, hypnosis, magic, mysterious character, police investigation, supernatural, mind game, psychopath, rivalry, obsession ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, horrifying, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, neighbor, violence, old dark house, danger, gory, hollywood, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, masked killer, serial killer, danger, uncover truth, pig killer, redneck, murder, violence, characters killed one by one, animal mask, lost ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Three friends pledge a fraternity that's deadly serious about its secret rituals, turning their rush into a race for survival.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, fraternity, survival, secret society, eaten alive, initiation, torture, murder, brutality, party, student, club ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, horror for children
Plot:
time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murder, dying repeatedly, twists and turns, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, masked killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
arizona, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
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