Movies like Backwoods 1988

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Backwoods (1988)
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Backwoods (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Karen and Jamie bike out to a remote wooded area for camping. Jamie saves a young girl’s life with an emergency tracheotomy and her grateful father, Eben, invites the campers to his place for some dinner...where they also meet William, Eben’s beastly geek son.
Style: slasher, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, independent film, tension, slasher horror ...
Plot: teenager, travel, freak, feral man, national park, mountain, murder, wilderness, backwoods, chicken, death of father, park ranger, heart attack, double barreled shotgun, survival, psychopath, youth, racism, gory, stalking, swimming, chases and races, isolation, love affair, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to Backwoods

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about deadly, danger, murder, serial killer, psychopath, survival and gory mostly in Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Backwoods: Blood Trails (2006), Don't Go in the Woods (1981), The Choke (2006), Just Before Dawn (1981), Madman (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 3.5
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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 ⇓
95%
Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, murder, survival, stalking, on the run, isolation, wilderness, mental illness, backwoods, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 3.4
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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 ⇓
91%
Just Before Dawn (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: psychopath, group of friends, backwoods, inbreeding, two killers, serial killer, maniac, survival, murder, stalking, ranger, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 5.1
 7K
Madman (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, stalking, murder, danger, teenage life, forest, exploitation, woods, maniac, camp ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Cold Prey III (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Takes place in the '80s where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
Style: slasher, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, friends, psychopath, winter, woods, cruelty, hotel, escapades, danger, profanity, buddies, graphic violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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 ⇓
67%
 3.5
 2K
The Butcher (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere finds six stranded college students fighting for their lives after making a horrifying discovery in a remote farmhouse in director Edward Gorsuch's rural frightener. With no place to run and no ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: redneck, psychopath, youth, danger, rivalry, gory, stalking, killer, farmhouse, survival, extreme, group of friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, danger, survival, isolation, forest, revenge, camping, decapitation, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.2
 6K
Timber Falls (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Style: scary, suspense, bleak, slasher, psychological ...
Plot: murder, rescue, survival, serial killer, gory, danger, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, fanatic, camp, religions or cults, mountain ...
Place: west virginia, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.2
 4K
Simon Says (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, stoner, murder, teenage life, woman in danger, danger, youth, college, gory, woods, survival ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.2
 1K
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 ⇓
57%
New Year's Evil (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: new year's eve, holiday horror, serial killer, psychopath, murder, nightlife, mentally unstable, danger, investigation, showbiz, stalking, christmas ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.4
 1K
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 ⇓
56%
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 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 ⇓
54%
 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 ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
50%
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, masked killer, summer camp, gory, murder, friday the 13th, killing spree, woods, psychopath, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.1
 543
The Feeding (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A werewolf pursues campers in the Appalachian Mountains. Consumed by its legendary bloodlust, the creature begins the hunt for its oldest and most dangerous prey: Man. Special Agent Jack Driscoll has seen this before. The beast is his obsession and ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: werewolf, mountain, special agent, teenage life, gory, wilderness, danger, obsessive quest, escapades, supernatural, youth, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.4
 1K
Psycho Cop (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, survival, youth, danger, violence spree, violence, woods, woman with a gun, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Staunton Hill (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of hikers take off for a weekend of fun and adventure in remote mountain region, they unwittingly stumble across the Staunton family - for whom the hill is named - and find themselves at the mercy of a depraved, diabolical brood that ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, danger, wilderness, gory, escapades, strong violent content, redneck, cruelty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, torture, car trouble, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 1.9
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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
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45%
 3.0
 675
Bleed (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Dana is failing Biology. To pass she must attend an extra credit assignment with several classmates that will lead them into a remote region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a place teeming with life... and death. While the group keeps one eye out for ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, serial killer, violence, camping, swamp, psychopath, danger, wilderness, escapades, youth, buddies, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in ...
Style: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, serial teen killer, camp, summer camp, torture, death, teenager, masked killer, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Final Terror (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fugitives, backwoods, murder, psychopath, woods, stalking, serial killer, youth, camp, gory, insanity, rage ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.2
 9K
Laid to Rest (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and ...
Style: scary, slasher, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, survival, gory, serial killer, female nudity, one man army, masked killer, danger, memory loss, amnesia, female protagonist, stalking ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 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 ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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