Movies like Smiley 2012

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Smiley (2012)
 3.3
 10K
Smiley (2012)
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, cyber, demonic, psychological horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, urban legend, college, prank, internet, murder, psychopath, stalker, danger, masked killer, student, library, college student, paranoia, falling from height, mind game, social network, torture, technology, illusion, campus, carnage, plot twist, teenager, hacker ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, slasher and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, psychopath, gory, danger and youth mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Smiley: Cherry Falls (1999), Salvage (2006), Valentine (2001), The Hills Run Red (2009), Keep Watching (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.2
 15K
Cherry Falls (1999)
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, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, murder, virgin, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, gang rape, small town, psychopath, sheriff ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: usa, virginia, west virginia
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100%
 5.3
 3K
Salvage (2006)
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, psychological, slasher, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot: time loop, psychopath, serial killer, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, murder, time travel, woman in danger, destiny, vengeance, rescue ...
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 30K
Valentine (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, valentine's day, psychopath, murder, revenge, gory, woman in danger, mystery killer, violence against women, danger, school, masked killer ...
Time: year 2001, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hills Run Red (2009)
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, rough, bloody, splatter, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, gory, torture, masked killer, self mutilation, murder, blood, danger, wilderness, corpse, deliberate cruelty ...
Time: year 2009, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Keep Watching (2017)
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, realistic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, family in danger, danger, isolation, psychopath, manipulation, family secret, strangulation ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
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: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, danger, panic, cyberspace, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 104K
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
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, slasher, suspense, twist ending, anthology ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: halloween, werewolf, masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, monster, prank, halloween party, supernatural, ghost, holiday, scarecrow ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 161K
Happy Death Day (2017)
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, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, murderer, college, college student, mystery killer, dying repeatedly, murder, repeated event, masked killer, surprise birthday party, alternate timeline ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.4
 4K
Pledge (2018)
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, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, fraternity, secret society, college, brutality, party, student, club, sociology, serial killer, trapped, supernatural horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, stalking, danger, youth, vengeance, gory, woman in danger, mystery killer, dark secret, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Splatter University (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
Style: slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, murder, university, teacher, youth, friendship, killer, violence, mental patient, school, tragic event ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, youth, rivalry, haunted by the past, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.6
 71K
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, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, college, strangulation, serial murder, killer, murder, teenager, blood, gory, gas station, dark and stormy night ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Initiation (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, ritual, murder, sorority, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, danger, campus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The House on Sorority Row (1982)
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, creepy, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, prank, college, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, voyeur, dead woman, old woman, childbirth, accidental death ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 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 ⇓
40%
When a Killer Calls (2006)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A babysitter begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who has just killed an entire family.
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, urban legend, gory, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, home invasion, danger, terrorism, youth, teenage life, prank, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A massacre survivor (A.J. Cook) studies serial killers under a famous expert (Bruce Payne), but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, serial killer, police detective, haunted by the past, police investigation, mind game, teenage life, gory, psychopath, law enforcement, danger, youth ...
Time: year 2001
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Babysitter Massacre (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: halloween, serial killer, danger, stalking, youth, murder, bullying, massacre, torture, masked killer, killer, urban legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.3
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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 ⇓
39%
 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, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, prank, school, death, psycho killer, plot twist, high school, youth, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: virginia
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39%
 5.6
 3K
Night School (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in ...
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, murder, psychopath, night school, suspicion, pregnancy, riddles and clues, woman in danger, love affair, danger, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: boston, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Graduation Day (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, holiday horror, masked killer, teenager, fear, camp, dead teenager, pandemic ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A crazed killer stalks college students who gave up their vacation to clean a deserted dormitory.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, christmas, psychopath, stalking, supernatural, college life, gory, school, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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HazMat (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, mentally unstable, murder, crazy, survival, danger, manhunt, isolation, violence, found footage, jack the ripper, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, college, investigation, mind game, amateur detective, danger, survival, journalism, stalking, youth, rivalry, psychopath ...
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Silent Scream (1979)
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, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college student, murder, danger, haunted house, serial murder, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, campus ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.2
 1K
Lovers Lane (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man who killed 13 years before goes out on the loose to kill his victims' children.
Style: slasher, dark, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, valentine's day, holiday horror, psychopath, holiday, whodunit, woman with a gun, murder, small town, masked killer, unfaithful wife, dead teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
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